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I would like to see if the developers could enact ship class restrictions in Combat Area 9, 8, 7, and 6, similar to what they do on some missions and FW space. I propose that CA 9 be battleship and below, 8 be cruisers, 7 be destroyers, and 6 be frigs. The reason for this is because it is often very difficult to test things below capital size. As it frequently occurs you can be engaged in meaningful combat when a carrier lands on you, neuts your cruiser, and kills you. This becomes a hindrance to actual testing. Most combat occurs in Combat Area 1 and the other sites are frequently empty, therefore i dont think that these 4 combat sites will be missed by the capital pilots. Subcaps who want to try things out against capitals can still do so, but when bs, cruisers, and frigs want to try things they can. CCP can you enact this change? I think it will be very useful.

Unfortunately we have so far no way to enforce such ship restrictions, which would not cause other problems - without spending a lot of time in enforcing them manually. There are some ideas for automated systems for the future, but all of them require quite some development time.

What? Sure you do. In many missions there are accel gates that sort my ship class. Just do two things with these gates:

1) Have them launch ships into deadspace far enough that slow boating there will take longer than the typical time between mirrors. That way no one can slip in.

2) Unless I mis-remember the sisi rules, you are not supposed to do combat at the station. Put the accel gates right next to the station.

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I believe any kill has its location logged in X Y Z coordinates. Have an automated script go over every kill, looking at who was shooting. If any ship is of a type that should not be in a particular combat area, the pilot of that ship is banned from Sisi.

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Wormholes sort by ship size. Set up wormholes that have their entrance in a non-PvP system, and their exit in the PvP system, but deep in deadspace (so the only viable way to get there is via the wormhole.) Give the wormholes unlimited total mass, but limit the individual ship mass.

You're definitely on to something, I hadn't thought of that before. Save capitals for 6-cz, and allow people to go to wormholes for various subcap sizes.

Both "accel gates at station" and "special wormhole" would be such possible solutions, which would need quite a bit of dev time to make sure that it works properly without causing bad side effects for testing and without affecting TQ in any way.

Isn't SISI basically a mirror of what future TQ would be? So I'd assume that the devs already have plenty of work to do making changes to the SISI image before updating TQ with a patch. Adding onto the changes to be made would inevitably add additional time and increase the probability for bugs and what not to be added to TQ image. At least that is if I understand the process correctly. Seems like you'd be increasing the rate of mistakes, bugs, errors as you increase the amount of SISI specific features.

When Thera was introduced, people who would use /moveme command to get their would get instapopped if they were in a capital ship. I don't see why something like that could be introduced for combat areas in 6-CZ, although I suppose that such feature is probably easier to implement when its system-wide than grid-wide.