Zoner/Zoner Guard IDs

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Hey Folks,

I'm not very active on the forums but I've been a longtime Zoner player and found this topic when as I was browsing.

I have a Zoner Guard Heavy Tanker (and other Zoner Ships)

I think changes could be made but I am fearful changes will punish the good as well as the bad. In all honesty I haven't seen many other Zoner Guard traders around and the ones I have are friendly people and good roleplayers. I think there are several facts to consider.

1) You can't just buy a Zoner Guard ID on Planet Erie. It's a very long process and requires patience and time. It is the absolute hardest non-request ID to get in the game.

2) There is no trading advantage to being a Zoner. Xoria has done a terrific job of balancing trade routes. Being able to land on many different bases gives you no advantage to making money. It gives you the freedom to explore and trade with almost all factions. That in itself speaks to Zoner neutrality and role play.

3) Being a Zoner trader leaves you open for pirating everywhere. You get a few people who let you go a little easy but others will rob you extra blind just as frequently.

4) Bad role-play pretty much extends everywhere across all factions equally so making trade changes to remedy this doesn't seem helpful.

5) If people want to powertrade then it's easy to do with any faction. It's easy for us (myself included) to sit back on our billion dollar reserves and our personal fleet of powerful ships and wag the finger at other people that are trying to do the same. Let's be honest here. We didn't earn our fortunes by doing missions.

If there are bad zoner rp'ers then I think it needs to be done on an individual basis. I think what's being proposed here is to change the nature of a faction. It almost seems like people want to rewrite who the Zoners are. Dab I play online quite a bit and I am flying all over sirius trading. I am really not seeing any abuse issues at all. Are people here really seeing that many Zoner Guard people trading?. The Zoner Guard ID difficulty factor discourages it to such a degree that I think these reports are exaggerated to say the least. I for one would want to see some proof of abuse on a substantial level before any changes are made.
All I've seen is forum gossip so far.

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