Zoner RP Solutions

[FooFighter]

I would even go so far saying that any and all Battleships should be restricted to official factions, and each of those gets an admin set maximum of each BS class - if the faction has more than one - they could muster.

Signed, though I'd also extend this to Cruisers and give the BS class a big boost. Battleships should be something truly awe-inspiring and unique, both in RP and in PvP - I'm not saying they are bad in combat, but taking one down with your buddies isn't a big achievement.

Also, even if nothing will be changed about Battleships in general, all Zoner ships above GB should be admin-given only. Seriously. The Zoners are neither an economic powerhouse, nor a superpower, or even "just" a House. There's no way they can afford to build more than a couple of defensive caphips to ensure the safety of their Freeports. "Zoner Warship" should be an oxymoron, not something common.

If implemented, the only ship you'll see Zoners flying to trade inside house systems will be the BWT with 3'600 cargo-space. Zoner Whales will still fly through house space, but only to reach the allowed destinations.

Even if that gets through all the politics, it still wouldn't be enough in my opinion. House space would still get flooded by Zoner traders (just in smaller ships) since even when you nerf their profits, they still will be earning more than most other factions.

Now you're taking an awfully large brush to paint a picture, and that is what ticks off all the IRP Zoners actually trying to enrich the servers gameplay.

Well, ask the [LN] how badly they suffer from LNS lolcaps. With the difference that you actually see quite a few RPing Navy chars, but RPing Zoners (while they certainly exist) are much rarer (most of them are lollernauts and Whales).

On a side-note... I've met many a player in different factions who admitted to have a Zoner Powertrader Char just to finance their other characters... maybe that is the real issue here, as the moment the Zoner Guard ID changes are implemented, you'll have them switch to i.e. IMG ID's or any other allowing 5k transports to go everywhere, regardless of the ZoI meant for their ID.

That, sadly, is very true. Trading is utterly broken in this mod, especially in .85. We've had a topic once were everybody made suggestions on how trading could be turned into something you'd do because it's fun and not because it was necessary, and I outlined my ideas on how that could be done as well, but I doubt anything will get changed from the ground up - it's simply too much work to be done now, and Xoria is still chief of trade until .86 from what I know.