Zoner RP Solutions

[ugliestmoose]

I'd like to take this opportunity to get this thing back on topic:D
EDIT: Wait, this post got back on topic while I was typing. Ya!

The Zoners are the victims of two opposing ideas at work - the first, that the Discovery mod must grow bigger and so we must add in more stuff for each faction; the second, that we must stick to vanilla canon as closely as possible. It's easy to see the problem here - the Zoners keep getting new toys in the form of destroyers, battleships (colony ships my ass:)), carriers, and so on, yet they're expected to be these loosely affiliated frontiersmen who make a living through diplomacy and trade. I don't know, but it seems to me that when you've got a group producing warships then they're not so "loosely affiliated" anymore. The Houses, including Outcasts and Corsairs, would start to get suspicious as to why these seemingly peaceful folk are fortifying themselves with military-grade equipment.

I guess my point is, we're trying to act like time stopped after the events in vanilla and nothing changes. Well, that's not really possible as long as we keep adding new things into the mod, and the Zoners especially have been the beneficiaries of much new tech and bases.

Instead of everybody crying that zoners r neutral foo, why not take the opportunity to let things play out? It's perfectly reasonable to assume that the Zoners will make enemies at some point. Isn't it more fun that way?