Zoner whales.

[DAnvilFan]

They'll move to the correct factions. 5k powertraders should be big corporations such as, say, Universal Shipping. They shouldn't be Freelancers and they shouldn't be Zoners (which are effectively the same thing). Zoners doing this robbed lots of pirate factions, such as LWB and the Gaians of their primary corporate targets such as Synth Foods and Planetform.

The Omegas and Omicrons were never meant to be as busy as New York. They're meant to be wild, with small stations, the ass end of nowhere, and hella dangerous, not full of trains.

Zoners didn't used to carry goods from Zoner stations to house bases, at least not in vanilla. They rented passers-by rooms as a sort of motel truck stop, and sold food to Corsairs and supplies to Outcasts. You didn't get Zoners in the houses. At all. Zoners left the Houses for an admittedly difficult life out in the zone, without House rules bothering them. If they hated the increasingly authoritarian houses' rules so much that they left, why would they repeatedly go back?

Mind explaining me how Zoners now have massive capital ships and an entire Planet? Maybe we should get rid of all that too. I say why not. If you're going to "correct" a faction to the vanilla way, I say do it all the way.

How do Zoners maintain a planet full of hundreds of millions of people if they never trade with House corporations, Junkers, etc on anything bigger than a freighter?

The Omegas and Omicrons were never meant to be as busy as New York. They're meant to be wild, with small stations, the ass end of nowhere, and hella dangerous, not full of trains.

So was the Wild West. It's called expansion. Zoner RP has been evolving for years. Same goes for the RP in the Omegas. They gave Zoners a planet and a strong economic infestructure. People build their entire RP around this only to have the developers change their mind about the core elements of the game.