How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

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I believe this "issue" is indicative of a crucial issue in discovery that is unresolved: How much of the storyline is player driven, and how much is dictated to the players.

Just to compare two player driven roleplay settings:

1. Zoners have established the ZA and according rules mostly reflected in the NZF regulations. The Sails were never really content with it around Freeport 9. The Core perhaps never at Freeport 11. It is hard to tell though how much was mere roleplay and how much of was disapproval of Zoner RP. We have no evaluable information on that difference.

2. The Corsairs were meant to have a weakness, and it their barren planet which makes them depending on food deliveries. The balance around Gamma is like that "Sairs cannot kill Zoners, because they need their food, while Zoners cannot starve the Corsairs, because before they'd actually starve they'd kill every Zoner. It's called symbiosis." Now, this important setting mostly imposed by lore must be maintained, or the Corsairs would not have weaknesses anymore. The recent motions of some Corsair players tried to defeat this weakness. It's called powergaming, Gentlemen.

Now, where is the point of avoiding weaknesses of a character class? Sorry to tell it frankly, but especially this is no roleplay anymore. Impersonation of characters has to encompass weaknesses.

The roleplay I have seen from Corsair players recently, especially by those who are permanently fueling an escalation between Zoners and Corsairs is avoiding any weaknesses. According to these Corsairs
... do not have a problem to obtain food in the Edge Worlds
... do not have too many wars already, so a war with Zoners would cut them completely off, and probably defeat them in the long run

Now, if we're talking about player driven storylines which do not adhere to the general necessity of balance, I hope there's nothing more to say about it, right?