getting back on course or keeping it...

[Arioch]

As a zoner indie, going to agree with Dane and Soban, and disagree with Hone. Here's why:

In regards Dane and Soban, as well as everyone else reading this. Zoners are a very unique and very obscure faction. Vanilla Zoner has very little in regards to their description, other than that they left house space to persue another life. I think that having the 3 factions, along with indies, is perfectly in line with the vanilla description, as it leaves much to the imagination. Let me pose this question: In RL, if you make choices, you cannot go back and change them. You are stuck with them, good or bad. In a MMO, there is no reset button, or loading another save. You are stuck with the choices. IMO, making changes to the current Zoner factions and/or what is available to Zoners is like saying "Nope, all the years of RP is void and we are changing Zoners". For one, I don't think it is fair to all those who did make choices inRP, good or bad, to all of a sudden deny them that experiance. Also, and a big point I want to make, is that I see this as writing history. Bear with me. In our RP dealings, day to day, we are creating history within the game. Our decisions are creating a story, creating history, creating the world we RP in. We are the present and future of Discovery, not the past. Just like in real life, we should deal with the consequences of our actions, whether good or bad, and move on. If changes need to be made, let them be made in RP and let it evolve naturally as it would inRL. I realize this is not RL, but a game... but, what is the point of RP? Acting out a character that you want, and developing that char. You don't or shouldn't have the option to go back and change your char, just as you can't go back in time to change YOU. I think you all see what I mean.

Now, Hone: I have to heavily disagree with you. 1st, Freelancers, while similar, operate within House space and are a wide range of people (Pirates, traders, mercs, etc). Zoners don't pirate, nor do the operate in House space. They got away from it... Small point I know, but still. I see a difference.

2nd,

A pertinent quote I heard from a zoner official faction member is
"The main thing to remember about Zoners is there arnt any"

This is one person's opinion, whether in RP or OORP... don't assume and apply it to all Zoners and how every person playing a zoner char feels.

3rd, when you say this:

It makes me laugh to see some people hostile against some zoner factions, but not other zoners, especially when the admins say there should be no difference due to tags, as with the liberty rogue sanctions. It just makes me think;
"You guys arnt playing zoners! Your making freelancer factions with caps, or trying to get your own ID" The indies are may not be better PLAYERS than you, but they are better ZONERS.

*I* laugh. Reason being, lets say you don't agree with the practice of a company, whether ingame or in RL. Just because you have a problem with that company, does it mean that you have a problem with the Country the company is from? No. You have a problem with them, not every one they associate with. Or, another example. Say you don't like a specific musical artist. Does that mean you don't like the genre as well? No. With Zoners, and the possibilities that faction, indi or not, represents, targeting one part and being ok/friendly with another is completely acceptable.

Lastly:

The indies are may not be better PLAYERS than you, but they are better ZONERS.

Again, I think you are completely wrong and ignorant. ZONERS are how they are, and what they need to be... You can't have freedom without protecting it (Omicroners). You can't support Freedom or enable those to escape House space without supplies (OSI), and you can't have Freedom of choice without a religeous aspect/radical thinking, if one so chooses (TAZ). Freelancers are professions... Zoners is a way of life. A Life that YOU choose.


Thanks for listening to me ramble:)

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