You defend yourself by trying to contradict what people say, example being; vlko bitching about how you have all the mining spots in your ZoI and you saying it isnt.
I do NOT see why you shouldn't have ALL the known pirating zones in your ZoI. You don't have a history, and lets use some common sense, you're pirates, you make your living by making money without giving a damn about the law, you should be doing everything you can to make the most amount of money as possible.
You're also using the generic Pirate ID which doesn't give you a ZoI limit.
You can choose what you try to SRP for, it doesn't mean it'll work but its YOUR choice, if you want to have cruisers from all houses, then you DO IT, you don't listen to people who say its a dumb idea or wouldn't work.
As for the zoner part. My opinion? Actually do some damned role play with them. Zoners aren't all a damn single house ffs. They're all different people, there's no such thing as ''being friendly/hostile to zoners'' thats just some BS people are doing because they think they know everything but actually have a limited sight to RP.
But of course, like I said, that's just my opinion. Just stop trying to please everyone, man the **** up and do what YOU want, not what others want.