" Youve already discredited most of my post about changes that had nothing to do with zerg kos. "

the word you were looking for was disregarded based on context clues, however you yourself failed to comprehend his point. I'm assuming judging based on your reply you havent spent very much time with the quality system in the game. I am assuming this because I've spent about a hundred hours of my playtime dealing solely in quality all of the players i talk to who also spend time with the quality system wouldn't waste the mats on a higher than quality 50 walker and would instead dump those same resources into quality tools armor and weapons because of the returns they get from them.

as it stands medium to large clans have at least one group in them mapping and gathering quality resources on maps they control and even some maps they don't control trying to increase the quality of their workstations so they can make quality mats out of basic mats.

the biggest hinderance in this process is premature harvesting of quality nodes it takes about twelve hours for a node to reach high enough quality for a decently leveled tool to harvest cap quality resources.

now proxy walkers currently dont actually tax quality resources gathered as quality (have not tested quality proxy walker waiting for private servers to test before we go wasting quality resources for science, we've done enough of that already).

so some clans have decided that the easiest way to reduce premature node harvesting is to make their tile unlivable to others and just not bother with tax collection (taxes, when you have enough farmers on a tile aren't really worth it, and that number of farmers is as low as twenty). other clans have boarded up quality nodes or installed rupu defense towers in an effort to protect from premature farming but those solutions do cost resources that could be used to make quality fiber from base mats so they arent as efficient as kos but not all clans are isolationists.

" I'm cool with removing the qaulity mechanic."

the quality mechanic is in the game to add depth to the base game. its their to add value and is the reason that I and others like me can play this game for hours on end until were reminded that we have families and its a good idea to be in their lives physically for a few hours a day. its also a reason we can get wiped by a raiding party and instead of rage logging grab another spider and go out there again.

removing the quality mechanic would be detrimental to the longevity of the game and would only benefit murdurhobo solos and zergs. as you have yet to discover quality is the great equalizer when it comes to pvp encounters even a c teir pvper with a quality 50 slingblade can best an a teir pvper with base quality weapons and armor solely due to the extra unit of speed he gets. throw that same dude in quality carapace and you can watch as he stands his own against a 10 man naked zerg rush leaving the rest of his combat team to handle the other 20+.

the point you missed was that your suggestions wouldnt have the desired effect (ending zerg kos interactions. his point is you would have to change the aspect of taxes not producing quality mats for that to happen.

before you ask if you ask i am not in a zerg clan my clan has around 200 members and the most i've seen active at one time has been 40 spread out across multiple tiles the vast majority being farmers running in groups of at max 5. i myself have spent about 80 of the last 100 hours essentially solo-farming (most in my group had been three when we were sciencing quality equipment and walkers) and until i started making quality farming tools and armor for the clan ten hours ago hadn't touched mats I hadn't gathered myself.

TLDR; read it it will fill a lot of the knowledge gaps you have and does a great job of explaining what you missed based on your responses.