How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Fail post is fail.

Zoners provide food for sale, not a delivery service to your doorstep. (Actually it pretty much is, considering the Corsair Q_Q about Theta being on the doorstep of Omicron Gamma. Of course, the hypocrisy of FP9 being on the Corsair doorstep but too far to get food from is hilarious.)

As for your first line, yes, fencing stolen goods also require Zoners.

Interesting that things degenerate here again when you come back, Richard. Just a coincidence that it was dying down, and now it's not?

Coin was simply making a point, and you denigrate his position by simply calling it fail. He's making the point from the perspective of a Corsair - which is really the biggest issue we have here, that the two main parties involved have different role-play perspectives. And when one of those parties decided to not do something that follows their normal role-play, they start complaining on the forums and to the admins about it being unfair and asking admins to step in.

The Freeports are still basically trans-shipment places - they're like the trucking company distribution centers that we have here on earth now. They have the added bonus of providing some fresh food and such, but it's completely unrealistic to assume that a solitary space station can provide enough food for an entire planetary population.

David Weber addressed that quite nicely in his Honor Harrington novels.

Planet Grayson.

Many, MANY space farms - all over the place in orbit - providing food for the population because the people couldn't eat the food that came from the planet. Then suddenly you have them building domes ON the planets surface, which enabled them to create in a controlled environment places to grow food.

Now apply some of the same theories to Crete. Just because these people are pirates does NOT mean that they're inherently stupid or ignorant - you can't have a society capable of building a spaceship that doesn't have some kind of technical base. And with the technical base that the Corsairs have - they could EASILY build bio-domes ON the planet to grow food. Does it cost more? Sure. Is it less efficient than, say, growing food on Stuttgart, where the natural climate allows food to grow openly? Sure. But can it work? Damned straight.

Oh, and fencing stolen goods simply requires someone who is quasi-legal. It doesn't require Zoners - Junkers can do that quite nicely, too. (So can Freelancers, for that matter...)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.