Zoner whales.

[n00bl3t]

Yawn. Maybe now the anti-zoner agenda will ebb.

Hopefully.

Zoners are people who hate the houses. They leave them and live on the edge.
They don't go back to house space.

Or at least shouldn't.

Open-minded view.

The reason for the zoner guard change is:

The zoner guard and the zoner whale were used mostly by power traders who did no role play at all and ended up causing trouble for the people who wanted to role play zoners. A significant majority (but not everybody) of the zoner council support this decision.

Alternative options:
- reduce the zoner whale cargo to say 3800.
- prohibit zoner guards from entering house space at all.

As Blunt says, zoners in canon Freelancer don't spend much time in house space - they left house space to get away from it. Regular zoners might spend some time in house space but zoner guards (the hardcore zoners) don't.

The difference between Zoners and Zoner Guards is nothing. Especially for Zoner Guard traders. The Guard system was not invented so much as to advance role-play but to stop certain people from getting the biggest Zoner ship to power-trade in and stop them from getting capital ships. (Which failed, and I guarantee will fail in some part again.)

The vote, as I remember it, was pretty close. Definitely not conclusive. On that note, the CoZ is, at the moment, as defunct as anything.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[chovynz]

...Doesn't all this b*tch happen on new mod version releases? Are we going to have to endure it every time an update happens?... [/rant]

Yup. Welcome to Disco. Land of whiners, rule lawyers, and babies.
Those who do try to change it for the betterment of all get covered in a big pile of who-flung-dung.
Enjoy your stay!
*dances with banana leaves*

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Seek fun and you shall find it. Seek stuff to Q_Q about and you'll find that, too. I choose to have fun.

[Doc Holliday]

I've been reading through this thread. Blunt and I have had many disagreements but he is correct, too many want-to-be Zoners just powertrade, "get rich quick with a Whale." It's one thing when it's "get rich quick" but it's entirely different when a player actually has an RP reason for running a specific item.

I already heard about the nerfing of the human organs trade. To those I ask, what was the RP reason for it? Doc Holliday did run them but I also play him as a medical professional. That is RP, powertrading is not.

Blunt and Dab are both correct in that Zoners left the houses for individual freedom. Powertrading into house space isn't RP. I do go into house space but it's RP, supplying Freeport 2 and Ames Research with needed commodities and such. On my way out, I may grab something we don't produce to take home.
Or, as Iridium is a Zoner product, I've often run it to "The Ring" in New Berlin and left with engine components for the home world, something Zoners don't produce.

FYI, I have run Zoners since this game came out or Zoner like profiles. True Zoners will adapt. I know I will.

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[MFE]Med Force One | Tales of Recovery|Med Force Enterprises

[pipboy]

Alright, you want a real example? There's a Junker base in New London. The Consortium needed that base recently to do an RP convoy from there to Freeport 11. Thankfully we did it before the changes were implemented.

You can still dock on Junker bases.

Yup. Welcome to Disco. Land of whiners, rule lawyers, and babies.
Those who do try to change it for the betterment of all get covered in a big pile of who-flung-dung.
Enjoy your stay!
*dances with banana leaves*

Really? That was the most unnecessary thing I've seen posted in quite some time. This is exactly the kind of thing we need a Disco "veteran" saying to new players. Thank you.

If you really want to help improve things, you can start by not acting like that.

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[DAnvilFan]

No, you can't. Not if you're wearing Zoner Guard ID.

The ID states that you can't land anywhere in lawful House space. New London is lawful House space and Junkers aren't mentioned as one of the exceptions.

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

I would not support ZG's from having no acess to house space at ALL.

Sometimes I need to pass through, like my recent excursion to Baffin and Coronado.

Found two VERY interesting things in coronado... And guess what, Emporer Norton?

You dont exist.

[pipboy]

No, you can't. Not if you're wearing Zoner Guard ID.

The ID states that you can't land anywhere in lawful House space. New London is lawful House space and Junkers aren't mentioned as one of the exceptions.

Oh ok, I thought it said you can't land on any lawful bases. Sorry.

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[Riley Mackenzie]

So, with all the ID hubbub, has anyone noticed/mentioned that even though some doors are closed, that there is a big open window for us to at long last, legally begin to develop some RP with some of the Gauls?

I think I'll go make lemonade while the rest of you debate the lemons/sour grapes argument:P

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[Rudo]

Gran Canaria has a population of 420 million since 817.

How does a community reach this kind of a size without having proper trading ties with major corporations and having a strong economic stability?

Lack of trade ties means lack of birth control.

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[Friday]

Because as a subsistence level - a planet is a sustainable entity.

You can grow a population quite well without needing anyone off-planet. That should be patently obvious!

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