Zoner whales.

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So what good routes can i do now with this 'Stupid' restrictions **Which i do hope will change**

Maybe you could try real Zoner routes. You know, going from one Zoner station to another..

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?

They have massive capital ships, but very few of them. Juggernauts are supposed to be very very rare. Now, yes, the playerbase of Juggy pilots isn't representative of this, but that is the lore of it.

Also, the Planet doesn't have hundreds of millions, but it does have a fair amount.. But compare its population to that of the houses, and you'll see it really isn't that big. Also, the supplies for Gran Canaria are either built on the planet's surface (fully capable of sustaining itself, plenty of room for food and industry) or brought in from other border world stations, like Freeport 5 and Freeport 9. Corsairs also sell a large portion of goods they pirate to Freeports, the same is true of Gran Canaria.



Now, for everyone that's acting as if this big huge change to the Zoners is out-of-the-blue, shocking, completely unexpected, etc.. This was debated on these forums months back, and reached a majority vote to adopt these changes. At the end of it, there was an announcement made that those changes WOULD be taken to the dev team for final decisions and possible implementation. If you go look in the ship sales section, you'll see a lot of people selling their Zoner Whales lately. That's because they knew that soon this would be happening and people would need to change their ships if they wanted to continue doing their trade runs.

Now, before you claim that the dev team is out to gimp all Zoners and powertraders.. Know that this entire ID change was my idea. Now, I am a Zoner myself. I've had a Zoner character for nearly four years now. More than just about all of you have even been here.. If anyone should not want to have their Zoner ID restricted, it's me. But unfortunately it had to happen.

Why? Because the players using that ID have shown that they can not act responsibly and not abuse the freedom this ID gives them. How do you think the real Zoner players feel when their reputation is completely destroyed because half the server's transports are flying around in a plethora of 5k transports with Zoner tags and Guard IDs? We're blamed for the actions of people who aren't even Zoners, just using the ID so they can trade anywhere, with anyone, and do whatever they please.

That is why this had to end.

Do any of you really believe it was in-roleplay to fly your Zoner Whales filled with 5,000 units of Cardamine up to Manhatten, insta-docking on the mooring fixture, then grabbing slaves and taking them back to Malta? Is that Zoner behavior? No. Was it done? Yes. Were there Zoners grabbing Gold from Graves Station in Bretonia and selling it on Planet Honshu in Kusari? Yes.

Since the freedom the ID gave wasn't responsibly used, it was taken away. Now people must make do with corporate faction IDs, and must abide by the roleplay of those factions. The dev team is as sick as everyone else in seeing OORP traders flying around doing routes that aren't meant for their faction, and not having the courtesy to even respond with a single line when hailed by a pirate, lawful, etc, let alone actually roleplay anything.

Now people always use the argument; "But trading is boring! We just want to make as much as possible as fast as possible so we can do the fun stuff!" Or the omnipresent, "I'm trading for a battleship!" Well, you'll find trading considerably less boring when you're flying for a faction, seeing other people from other factions, and have a real story behind your transport, rather than 'just another Zoner.' You might realize that trading in a convoy with several other players of the same NPC faction takes a considerable edge off the boredom of trading, not to mention extra defense against pirates..


In the end, if you want something, show you can use it responsibly, or it'll just get taken away. This is a lesson a fairly large percentage of this community still needs to learn, and this is one step towards that.



Oh, and towards the end of all the silent smuggling Zoner Whales yelling 'I no spek englis.'

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