' Wrote:To answer you as a player: You cannot expect for Zoners, a faction that has existed since Freelancer was released in 2003 or whatever, to suddenly change. This is embedded roleplay. There are aspects that players can change in-game and then there are aspects that are just beyond our control. You can't make Freeports NOT free especially because we're not the Dungeon Masters here.
Vanilla Zoners were around 3000 guys who flew water and food etc in dromedaries to remote pirate bases. They were teetering on the brink of being outlawed by Liberty (and presumably other houses would follow suit), had no power to speak of, were killed off by pirates if they crossed the line, and basically survived by making themselves valuable or not a target. They kept going by being small, non-threatening, under the radar and providing freeports. Only the freeport part of that is still part of zoner rp. So yeah, it can change.
