Corsair - Zoner

[leonidos]

Pardon while I revive the dead horse.

A solution suggests that there's a problem, when in fact no problem exists. Players on the server have got it into their minds that the Zoners shouldn't fly under the same banner. Show me the <strike>MONEY</strike> infocards because the infocards say otherwise. Yes, every Freeport is surrounded by a unique group of factions. And yes, every Freeport conducts business based on those who surround it. So then players think, "doesn't it seems logical to subdivide Zoners into multiple groups, no?"

No. Observe the following case study: From playing Freelancer, we know that Freeport 10 got into a major conflict with the Outcasts circa 770 AS. Or something.

Here's a million dollar question:
Were Outcasts hostile to the Zoners in FP9, who had nothing to do with anything, at the time of the conflict?

The answer is:
The Outcasts didn't care if you're a Zoner from FP2 or FP9 or New Jersey. If a Zoner from a distant system was visiting his Great Aunt Willow on FP10, they shot him to pieces. They shot him because his people built a Freeport on their turf and he was a Zoner. If he stayed in FP2, then they didn't care because he's in FP2. And the Zoner in FP2 didn't care either because there ain't no Outcasts there, are there?

And don't even get me started on "Zoners are, like, these radically different groups, like, totally yeah?" That's another notion with absolutely no regard to Freelancer lore. The Zoners have a unified code. They have a unified belief system. They all seem to have magically called their bases by the same name and numbered their Freeports in chronological order. And they consider fellow Zoners, in the very words of vanilla lore, as their "brothers."

Do you think that those who call each other "brothers," feel that they are part of the same family? You are correct if you're nodding your head. Now, brothers don't have to be identical, do they? One can love bar fights and the other could be a sissy fleeing from a Corsair papa bear for smoochin' his daughter. Each can lead his own life and conduct his own business.

But if my idiot brother gets into a bar fight, you better believe that I'll be smashing beer bottles over anybody that tries to grab him. Yes, he's a drunk idiot who shouldn't have gotten into a bar fight in the first place - but he's my brother and I love him.

Omicroners messed up here and there when it came to Zoner Lore, but they got that part right. They stood up for their brothers when the Corsairs bullied them. Unfortunately, one of those brothers supplied Crete with goods while the Omicroners were fighting for said brother and starving in Theta.

I'm not complaining. Backstabbing provides great roleplay opportunities. But RP differs from server to server, so at the end of the day you gotta look at the infocards. And the infocards say that if you shoot a Zoner in El Paso, his Zoner friends in Miami are gonna be mad.

For your kind information Outcasts dont care about freeport because of several reasons.
The CR and IMG ( past case ) dont use freeports as they have thier own base. BHG also dont use that freeport of Tau37 because that will cause massive OC ganking.
On the other hand Sair territory is completly surrounded by freeports or nutral bases 2 at theta, two at o41, 1 at delta(bhg has own base also) 2 on kappa. So these condition is too bad and while everybody knows there will be alawys a big fight so they gather near freeports and launch an attacks.
After 4.86 the amount of OC raid has been reduced but problems arises with hessains and BHG and Strangly GMG. I never saw a GMG before in gamma, but they are comming now too.
We dont have any problem if they come directly for raiding from thier bases to gamma. But they gather forces for hours and calls for attack .. This is bad.
Hessains raid ...ok
BHG raid ....ok
GMG raid ....ok
OC raid ....ok
Zoner raid ....ok
But all together is not ok.. With all thier cap ships(gmg snubs)
I didnt mention reavers because they also comes alone. But MM they come with large group of others.

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