Corsair - Zoner

[Dusty Lens]

Zoners - You're refusing to acknowlege something that's actually a problem. Go make a Corsair and have fun chasing every last guy who attacks Crete to whichever of the nearest freeports they feel like. I mean, Gamma really is completely surrounded by open-use bases. More so than anywhere else in sirius. It's a bit frustrating. I wonder how you'd feel if Corfu was turned into a hunter base, FP9 an OC base, and FP5 a hessian base. I bet the zoners would be crying then, but honestly that's the way it often feels for the Corsairs.

Have you ever read the bulk of the demands which have oft and often levied at the Zoners as their pathway to peace? They're uniformly preposterous and sit on a backdrop of continued attacks against their persons regardless of actions taken.

The difference between a Hessian launching from Freeport 5, which is something of a myth propagated by insistence, and a Hessian launching from Omega 11 is barely a few minutes of travel time. The Zoners are viewed as soft targets of opportunity, marked by the division and generally breathtakingly poor decisions wrought by their higher echelons and a flotilla of opportunistic indies or random forum voices.

The Zoners have been getting pirated by people using their bases since day one.

Furthermore, you've allowed yourselves to get stirred up into militant action by a group of people who's agenda is basically making a mess for Zelot. It's personal. Nice huh? Infact this specific group of people just loves the drama. the more the better. If people are crying, they're drinking the sweet tear-nectar. Many of these people were flying for the corsair side of the conflict in it's previous incarnation. The reason for the side-switch is just an arbitrary case of who they favour in OORP terms this time around.

Totally inaccurate. The TBH and Corsairs in general initiated the bad times. The Zoners responded in kind with guns. That was seen as something as a surprise and resulted in a lot of intense Q_Q. The entire reason for this thread beginning was a sort of shocked question concerning if Zoners shouldn't all be sanctioned for defending themselves.

The persons you mention jumped on the bandwagon well after it was sent rolling down hill.

The Zoners were supposed to be a soft target that could be harassed as a frustration release measure. If they banned everyone from every freeport, again, the Reavers, RR, Hessians, GMG, Outcasts, BHG and what have you would see little more than a 3-4 minute increase in the amount of time it took to reach Gamma. World changing to be sure.

But, to get to the meat of it. My annoyance with your post Joe is that it does suffer from memory leakage. From issuing KOS orders which result in mass LN/Goldwing gankages to telling the Junkers to put themselves in difficult situations because of base abuse to gank flights with the ROS. God the flipping ROS. Let alone the HF and any other litany of sorrows wrought on fights or groups that didn't need the unnecessary pressure to have a good time.

Maybe I've just been around for too long and I remember too many transgressions followed by long soulful posts condemning those same actions. Maybe I feel that the PM I sent to Bluespawn in response to the same feeling like there's a lot of personal hatred going on around here strikes more closely to the heart of the matter.

There's a crucial distinction between hatred of a group, or person and the hatred of a image which I feel is important to elaborate on as it pertains not only to the scenario we're seeing unfold right now but also to the Omicroners/Zoners at large before and the Junkers before that and other groups and other groups and other groups before that.

Whining.

The Corsairs are whining. A lot. Their whines are totally unjustified. Their whines are tiresome. You can easily and quickly acquire a litany of sorrows that fly directly in the faces of an equally robust cornicopia of chest beating and actions which evoked the current situation they face.

The Corsairs current, extremely pathetic I might add, Q_Q storm and agendas being worked on the forum have earned them the ire of the floating forum population. The group of homeless players who don't follow any particular allegiance such as myself and those persons who have rather intimately tied themselves to a certain player clique.

Nothing draws ire, contempt and broad based laughter in this forum like the perception of being a bunch of sobbing Q_Qing gits. Nothing draws admiration like going "Well, this sucks. But we're going to deal."

If you lose with that attitude you've lost little. When you win with that attitude you win a lot.

When you forumlancer, sanctionlancer and Q_Qlancer you're lost everything and people will delight in trumping you. Especially if it means that something better might come along to replace you. Because you're not fun, not fun in a way that doesn't enforce the idea that they don't want to play with you, but not fun in a way that suggests the best course of action is to beat the lame out of you.

-Dusty

But what I do know is that a long grocery list of how stupid everyone is doesn't resolve anything and, frankly, calls into question the ability to see a quality remedy to internal division issued by the admin team.

Grrr.