Corsair - Zoner

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Right. Here we go again.
The falling out was entirely OORP driven via player angst. I understand that it happened within server history, so it must be accepted, but it certainly hasn't been canonized in Discovery. If you want to give me rebutals, I'd be interested to see infocards.

As for the 20 year arguement, that doesn't hold much water seeing as how the development you're talking about went from zero to a million over night. Zoner Battleships were in Discovery since day number 1 and there has been almost no gradual development of Zoner RP since then. It's been the same for the past 4 years. Unless you count the manufacturing of new ships.

Pretty much the entirety of that, aside from the OORP issues, were development faults.
The big battleships were given to the Zoners simply to have a place to put them, there wasn't really much thought given to it aside from "These ships won't fit in anywhere but we want them ingame, what do we do?".
If anyone remembers the Talarca, they'll know what I mean. It went from being a lovely kusari civilian craft to being the Zoner Corvo.
There was no roleplay behind the zoners suddenly getting these monolithic beasts, it was an OORP issue.

Similarly, the reason why there are no infocards talking about the council falling apart is the same reason why folks are fighting with each other now, people have different ideas of what Zoners are. The developers at the time did as well.
That and the fact that old infocards were rarely updated in the past. It's only with 4.85/6 that proper effort was given to updating older infocards and 4.86 is the first to do a proper job of it.

Currently, there is no real dev consensus on the Zoners unity or disunity.
A combination of different opinions and a lack of action on the matter basically means nothing was changed.

You cannot rely on what the outdated, or even wrong, infocards say ingame.
Development and oorp issues have pretty much jeopardised that.

Make the Council again, make the Alliance again, do something for gods sake.
I'll throw whatever weight I have behind a well thought out effort.
If it works, fantastic, if it doesn't, try something else.
I don't want to see any players leave because of this sort of mess.

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