Ive halted a zoner transport which was RPing very good. He had food, crew, water, engine components and was transporting military stuff. I told him I needed a few seconds to examine his ship.
Problem was....he kept RPing how i cant attack him, and that he doesn't care if i hunt those "synth food bastards".
i was like...wth? Then i realized that he was desperate to RP his way out of tax. Poor guy. So i told him my crew was starving and asked him to drop some cookies.
He kept on blabing how its an outrage, how his crew also needs food. I told him to pick something, like bananas and drop it, told him that he is a fool to argue with me.
But noooooooooooo! He is a ZONER
DA ZONAR!!
He cant be taxed, not by me. So i shot him down to 0% shield and 1% hull to state how seriously hungry my crew is.
But noooooooooooo! Zoners don't have cookies or bananas so the man offers me ORANGES!!!!!
+ i even had to pay 80k for his repairs. (i felt sorry for him)
he dropped the shipments and went on his marry way.
so my question is, not whether my pirate can blow that suicidal zoner to smithereens but goes:
WHY DO PEOPLE THINK NEUTRAL ID EXISTS???
WHY DO PEOPLE CONFUSE IT WITH ZONER ID????
ok...those were rhetorical questions. My real question is: is there a cure?
If you want to stay friendly with zoners = don't tax them
If you want their stuff = tax them
They aren't free of taxing.
All Zoners think that they are free of taxing, but that is wrong. You can tax zoners as much as you wish but then you have to live with consequences...they won't deliver goods to your bases anymore, start to hate and shoot at you.
' Wrote:well.. for the most part it makes you neutral but it doesnt make you immune to being taxed and pirated atleast thats how i go by it
boba & colonia...i already know this things.... the reason is that "older" players keep pushing indie traders to zoner tags and ID's to make their lives easier. But forget to mention this. My REAL question (would be, not sure yet) why did that bastard respond so coldly. As if he thought the zoners can behave arogantly towards pirates and not fear for their lives...this makes RP very unrealistic and it makes me think that he would have posted my taxing attempt into a sanction thread if i requested money. Makes me feel ooRP even if he is the only one behaving like that.
I have several zoner characters and I've never felt immune to tax
If you're trading you're a trader, whether a zoner trader or not.
Infact several times when I've been pirated, I'm in the process of giving them money when the pirate says something like
"I won't exempt you just because you're zoner"
I think its sad that this is even suggested or believed by anyone - zoner is not a getout clause from pirating.
Zoners traders are getting a bad name, which is sad because its almost all they can do
' Wrote:boba & colonia...i already know this things.... the reason is that "older" players keep pushing indie traders to zoner tags and ID's to make their lives easier. But forget to mention this. My REAL question (would be, not sure yet) why did that bastard respond so coldly. As if he thought the zoners can behave arogantly towards pirates and not fear for their lives...this makes RP very unrealistic and it makes me think that he would have posted my taxing attempt into a sanction thread if i requested money. Makes me feel ooRP even if he is the only one behaving like that.
He responds coldly?
Then respond coldly with your guns, rip his ship, take the food and the other good stuffs.
If you're in RP and don't hurt any rules nothing will happen to you.
Yeah Zoners are not immune to tax however neither are the pirates doing the pirating.
Think of it.. you let him live? he's gonna tell all his zoner friends and you will NEVER be allowed to dock on a freeport again. (and if you wanted to truly RP properly you wouldn't for a little while)
Basically sure you can pirate em, even kill zoners but don't expect to stay neutral and keep your docking rights on freeports.
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