Admin Notice : Faction Warned

[Dieter Schprokets]

I have 4 concerns with the QCP targetting Zoners.

1) It took the Zoner players with their pants down. It is not considered sportsmanlike to just decide that the NPC faction other players represent is your enemy, and then shooting those players, without talking to them first about how its gonna go down. You like surprises, but most people don't, and they get upset. You are smart enough to have anticipated that reaction, even an overreaction.

2) I understand your RP about Zoners letting Corsairs in the back door. I get that. However, infocards, and the npc diplomacies do not govern the way the game is played. They exist as a backstory to an evolving RP which real PLAYERS write. Maybe the NPC Zoners let the Corsairs in the back door, but the faction players have never shown an inkling to anything other than general neutrality, with occasional grr woof woofery when their turf was infringed. And players and their efforts matter more. You decided that Zoners made Cork possible, and maybe in the mod, that's true. But the TAZ, for instance, have never been a party to standing by and watching genocide happen. A zoner is not a zoner is not a zoner. Infocards take a backseat to actual players activities.

This is similar to another point you tried to make a while ago. NPC faction diplomacy-wise, BAF should hate Outcasts. The official faction BAF policy to OC, is neutrality. "The Enemy of my Enemy" and all that. What the players decided governs over infocards and npc faction diplomacy, within reason. There is a minor contradiction with the infocard. I, for one, am fine with that.

Bottom Line, TAZ and other Zoners should decide their diplomacy, (as long as it is generally consistent with the mod); Not other players, not even ones acting in accordance with various mod infocards etc.

3) The Zoner infocard:

ENEMIES:
None

Zoners are a diverse group of individuals who, for various reasons, have decided to live in the wild and unregulated systems outside colonial control. Over time the Zoners have evolved into an influential and rich faction that invests a lot into deep space exploration, much like The Order. When The Order allied with Corsairs, Zoner relations with the Outcasts became no less tense than with the Corsairs. However, the Zoners of Omicron Theta felt they were powerful enough to defend themselves from both factions and, to this day, skilfully use the antagonism between Outcasts and Corsairs for their own benefit.

I don't see anything about a pro Corsair stance there. ENEMIES : None. Kinda stands out, doesn't it?

4) This is not what the Privateer ID is for. You aren't guardians of Bretonia in all places against all foes. You are pirates licenced by the Crown to kill and steal from those factions with which Bretonia is at war. Bretonia is not at war with the Zoners. End of story.

The above is not "The Admin" position, it summarizes my position, as well as I can. Kinda tired ATM.

The warning you got was an attempt to defuse an unhappy situation, under time constraints, with imperfect information. The Admin's are still discussing all this, much like you guys are.

For my part, I'd give real money if it could get resolved, in-RP, with concessions from both sides.

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