Player Features and Ideas Discussion

By default there is an option enabled for all pilots that notifies them when they are about to jump into a low-sec system from a high-sec system. Why is there not the opposite of this feature that notifies a criminal (either by security status or by criminal engagement timer) that he is about to jump into a high-sec system, and is a potential risk??

Why doesn't the local cops let alone the omnipotent ones show up nearly instantly and pod the offending SOB? Oh wait, stop AFKing and WTZ....problem solved. Entire suggestion is moot, message pops up and you are already long gone unless you where stupid enough such as sitting in a freighter leaving dock after leaving FW without thinking where you where traveling to or pounding out storylines/anti-faction missions than jumping in a slow ship. Yep, why give the bad guys a safety net when in fact they already have delayed response, someone is yelling at you that your a criminal and most people are laughing cause nobody is shooting at them.

+1 but *only* if the message reads "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy'...

Why not, seems harmless enough, particuarly for a GCC, where mistaking a gate security can cause instant death. That is hard.

Of course, if you are in such a state, one has only oneself to blame and a scram, missile and pod ejection usually gets the message across.

Then one is more careful next time.

Both are valid points of view.

Of course a middle ground is if you realise you are in HS and were allowed to quickly set your safety green, and concord then only warning you to GTFO, but not immidiately firing, giving you a short time to burn back to gate, that would be a nice answer for all. But only if the safety was kept locked until you left hs.

In short, making a minor mistake should not be a death sentence, but the mechanic does deters some of the more imaginative asshattery, and that part should remain. The message request? If you are in FW or losec you would have turned it off long ago you are hardly going to remember to turn it on again (if you can find it) when you have been very naughty. And when not, that delay will get you killed when running for safety.

But that's what makes this game fun.


as for the OP i don't care one way or the other i'll just disable it like the low-sec warning but in the mean time just watch where you are going

You do something that gives you a GCC and you're complaining the game doesn't warn you? It does warn you, there is a cooldown icon at the top of the screen; everyone gets it.

Some people can't distinguish the letters 'E', 'V', 'E' from 'W', 'O', 'W'.

You are asking to be protected by the system which you broke to go GCC...

You don't get a GCC if some Jackass picks a fight with you. You get a limited engagement timer and then you can pod him quite happily. You even get a limited engagement timer if he just fires back after you initiate the engagement.

You only get a GCC in low sec when you kill an 'innocent' pod with good sec standing that has no suspect, criminal or limited engagement timer (with you) running.

No, I'm not, because I don't ever go GCC.

I'm asking for the game to provide you with some kind of warning when a button that is normally okay to press has turned into an instant suicide button because that is good game design.

It's only an instant suicide if you are GCC. You had to willingly commit criminal action to get that flag in the first place so you should not have to be warned about still being a criminal. You got your bubble wrap when you were about to engage an illegal target. If you run around in high sec with safeties red, it's not the game's fault.