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Pilots with a sec status at 0 or more can trigger a Mayday call when they are aggressed (except in WH space).

Other pilots with a positive sec status in the range of the call (let's say one system per sec status point of the pilot issuing the Mayday) can then opt to to create a bookmark to the mayday's call location, and thus warp to it when in-system.

All Pilots in their settings have a setting to opt in on Mayday calls (default option if oss).
People that want to be able to act on Mayday calls must check this box.

1/ to allow players to react to something ongoing between players in their vicinity, if they so choose.

2/ To facilitate the capacity for the "good guys" to help other "good guys", beyond corps and alliances allegiances.

3/ Because CONCORD monitoring the use of this channel would prevent anyone with a non positive sec status to use or even hear this channel.

4/ There is also the ability to use this as a bait/trap, with the complicity of a positive sec status pilot.

1. get in a corp
2. fleet up
3. "I NEED HELP GUYS!" when **** hits the fan
4. The cavalry arrives

Velicitia is right .... but, many ppl don't have enough corpies online, maybe you're away from HQ, maybe you're outside corp peak hours, etc., etc. .... or, maybe you just want to encourage more group play and social interaction ... and yes, CONVENIENCE really does matter .... the same way 1000000 papercuts do.

Sort of seems similar to calling for help in LOCAL though ... but it adds the ability for other pilots to more quickly respond ....

How would the Agression Flagging work for this though? Say someone shows up to help ... how could they do anything more than function as a neutral repper (unless they are willing to take a sec status hit and are in losec ...)?

1) This has nothing whatsoever to do with sec status

2) What is a good guy? We all kill tens of thousands of people daily. (Those rat battleships? Thousands of crew.) Anyway, sec status isn't a measure of who's good, I can go gank a load of miners, go back home to null and be back in positive standing inside of a day.

3) So I take it this is highsec only then? Why is that? If I can't have a 'help i'm tackled in the belt' button in nullsec, why should there be one in highsec, where you're rarely at any risk anyway?

4) So what? This again has nothing to do with your sec status, and is likely the main use of a button like this.

I like it (but no sense having sec restrictions.) If you are literally in trouble enough to need to make a wide band plea for help its not like you're going to turn down the help of dodgy pirate types who arrive to pirate your aggressor as (as well).

1. If you're outside corp's primetime every so often, OK, that's understandable (i.e. weekends because you were on early, or you had a day off or something). If you're constantly playing outside your corp's primetime, sounds like you're in the wrong corp.

2. If you're that far from HQ so your mates can't show up ... wtf were you doing over there alone?

3. As for "Not enough corpies online" , see #1.

4. Assuming lowsec ... unless they're blues, anyone who shows up will be more apt to kill the both of you than help.

I don't see a lot of point in this.

In nullsec, you can't even trust the guys with high sec status. Throwing out an SOS just tells them there's easy prey in system.

In lowsec, it's always a trap. I wouldn't help anyone there but the guys I'm already in a fleet with.

In highsec no one could shoot at them unless they've drawn a criminal flag, in which case Concord will be there at least as soon as the first player was able to respond. If they have a legitimate reason to be shooting you, be it war or aggression or kill rights, then the rest of us can't interfere without bringing concord down on ourselves.

If it's a replacement for concord: that means I can gank people and then use an alt to respond to the SOS, stopping me from losing my ship! Love it.

If it will allow me to invite people to fights where Concord wasn't going to show up: also awesome, I can throw an SOS and then when people show up to "rescue" my alt, I get a good fight and can use my alt for RR because it's funnier that way.

Basically if I'm given a mechanic like this, I will abuse the hell out of it to kill the gullible.

How would people be notified that there was a mayday call going out? I am imagining someone setting off a smartbomb at the undock in Jita and a thousand popups appearing all at once on every single player's screen that is within 3 systems.

Perhaps it could be something in local and it would appear on the warp to drop-down?

It would have to be unobtrusive.

Of course, someone is going to find a way to grief with this, you know that.