Thanks for destroying Zoners, QCP!

[Magoo!]

Good luck getting Bowex to sell you one - Bowex doesn't trust the Zoners enough (or at all for that matter) to sell them a Shire. Of course, that doesn't matter because what a faction feels about another has no bearing on whether or not you can land on a base and buy one of the three ships on offer there.

Aha... Ahaha! Silly goose, we gave them part of our only planet, the least they could do is give us a handful of ships which are inferior to our own designs.

Neutrality goes out the window when Zoners let a nation guilty of genocide use their docking rings.

ALSO, if we did this with pirate IDs, tags and ships instead of Privateer, would we get this bitching?

If a group of Muslims bombed a US building would a prejudice develop against their entire people? Good lord! Funny when people act under the banner of a higher power/label/whatever. There are muggings, and then there are people flying Russian flags waylaying every US citizen that passes under the pair of shoes on the wire. (Read in a politically correct tone. I myself am the epitome of religious neutrality)

Am I the only one who thinks about RP this in-depthly? "Oh hey, Ms. Carrie, we're going to go annihilate the people who just gave our prime business a safe haven for all the refugees, k? Oh, why you ask? Because they were feeding starving people. No biggie. Humanitarian activities and the affiliated link to chivalry are long dead. Bai!"

-Edit- Swift apparently sees into the dark depths of hard-core RP. Qdos.

Stop your whinging.

Whining has no second g.

... Sorry.

Aaaaanywho, got way off topic, and the thread cooled down. Geez, did I actually read 12 pages? 11... Hm, still... I'll probably need new glasses after that.

So. Here's the situation. Some random guy posted a bounty on the Zoners for no apparent reason. Scraps of apparent reason being equivalent to:

"Grr, t3h z0nrz do humanitarian work for the starving and dying members of a pirate nation. Thus, all work to prevent atrocities, starvation, and disease in Africa must cease due to the recent event involving Somali pirates and the freighter. Adieu."

Well that's just stupid! We feed a starving and dehydrated people, we don't share ale and trade equipment. We're friends, not allies. If you'd take the time while you're new here to get up to date on the on-goings of the Zoners before you blanket bounty them, you'd understand this. AND! Also, as a plus, if you'd have taken the time to review our on-goings, you'd have noticed that the Council of Zoners (our governing body, just a fun fact) declined Elder Shepardi's proposal and he ceased all relations. We no longer run food, etc. As of... Oh, a few weeks ago.

Now for the QCP. See, now that's just ridiculous. Pirating us is one thing, whatever. But right outside the planet that we allowed Bowex, the military's supplier, to put down your people for the purpose of safety from Kusari, just crosses a line of stupidity and ill-thought out action. I'm sorry, but that's how it is. If nothing else, your stray fire could very well have decimated a hundred buildings on the surface filled with refugees. But then again, with, "ill pl4y w/bulit moar, k? lul" I don't fully expect much thought to go into this.

Anyways, what I see here is a split of sides.

The QCP are going, "lul, its k" and the Zoners are going, "Wtf?!"

Just like the Keepers went, "Its k" and everyone went, "I'd like a word or two before I get blown up by 700 DPS guns".

And Phantoms...

My recommendation is that if the QCP want to be a super-serial-secret BAF organization that they pull a Phantoms and ditch the tag. That's like James bond meeting with Goldfinger and saying, "The name's Bond, James Bond. Under the employ of MI6, and Her Majesty. Assignment: Kill you. Tea?"

Anywho... Geez, way away from my original thoughts, but I was typing as I read.

Moral of the story: QCP did what their ID said, took a bounty, didn't really think too far into the RP just "But it says! And... The... Employment board!". Thus, its the guy who posted it's fault. He had no real reason. He's just an ill-informed individual who blanketed us and caused all this havoc.