the Zoners

[Kuraine]

Um, i'll just want to point out that the GC planet is not dockable and not really seriously inhabited. Its an RP gimmick, nothing else. So it can't really be called a "GC planet", not considering there are Outcasts and Blood Dragons on it also. Its an in-RP experiment. I think you're getting a bit upset over what is essentially not really a big deal, to be honest. Its hardly like they're a superpower at all. Cardamine addiction was quite heavy among the Kusari youth even in 800 A.S (vanilla lore) and it is now 817 A.S. We're not stuck in vanilla, things do change. Otherwise what the hell is the point of doing anything at all? I might as well just leave disco if things are going to remain static with every single faction indefinitely.

The Kusari government and navy is massively tied up in a war with the Bretonians, and they are winning. This leaves the GC and BD to consolidate and grow exponentially while they have loads of breathing space and less pressure. It also allows the Hogosha and Farmers Alliance to take advantage of the considerably lower naval presence to build a couple more bases, and Samura is taking advantage of the lower lawful presence in order to step up its funding and attacks on its enemies. The GMG is doing the same. The same thing is happening in Rheinland and Bretonia, and even Liberty to some extent.

Other factions are being weakened, such as Bretonia, Rheinland, the Junkers to some extent, the Outcasts more than the Corsairs are being weakened somewhat, the Lane Hackers are pretty much the same. The Hessians, while their territory has expanded, are struggling in the face of Wild and Corsair assaults to some degree. The Corsairs also are struggling from Nomad and Wild attacks (there are rumours of a treaty in the works between Hessians and Corsairs in order to fend off the Wild).

And what the hell is TL;DR? It's really annoying in that big bolded font and means nothing seemingly.

The [GC] gunboat is indeed active, or at least was logged in tonight. I saw'rd the Lady wif my own eyes!

Hmm, guess she's gone active again. Oh well, fair enough. But either way, its the only gunboat we have. Hardly a major power. This is supposed to be about Zoners though. But hey, i'm all for removing all the destroyers/cruisers/battlecruisers/battleships/dreadnaughts that the Corsairs and Outcasts have! It would make sense in RP! Neither of them would possibly have the resources or power to make them. The Outcasts *might* be able to afford one or two possibly. But i'd make them dockable bases around Alpha and Beta. Then remove the Zoner battleships and cruisers too. And remove the Hessian cruisers. In fact, no pirates should, by rights, have anything bigger than a gunboat. Same goes for the bounty hunters guild. Hell, let's get rid of Order battleships too, because they sure as hell wouldn't really be able to build loads of them, even with Corsair/covert liberty funding etc. Let's prevent the Junkers from using anything but fighters/bombers, because they wouldn't use anything bigger. Let's prevent the GMG from using anything bigger than fighters or bombers too. Hell, IMG too. Why the IMG'd need a battlecruiser is beyond me. But i'm sure players wouldn't want that, would they? So how about we cut out all the bitching?

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Kuraine (Zoner tagged Trader)
Ravenholm (Zoner tagged Zoner Destroyer)
Bill Mason[Arms.Dealer] (Zoner tagged Arms Dealer)
LR-Drax (Liberty Rogue tagged Cruiser)
LR-Dravis (Liberty Rogue tagged VHF)
[RHA]Wilhelm.Wettin (Red Hessian tagged VHF)
[GC]-Ai.Takeda (Golden Chrysanthemum tagged VHF/Bomber)