Space Traffic Reports in House Systems

[sempai17]

I'm not sure you get my point. Assuming this is all in system chat - which it would have to be - you'll be announcing the presence and location and probably name of a trader coming through. Since the pirate will probably know where the STC ship is, the pirate will know where the trader is, or is coming from. Meanwhile, nobody knows where the pirate is (or Mon'Star, for that matter...).

You're not making it impossible for pirates; you're making it easy for them. And you're arguably making it less likely the trader will make it unharmed.

Again, I like the general idea - I just think this point needs some attention.

(Btw, I think this is Obnoxious1's point, not whistle-blowing against pirates, but against traders...)

hrm.... never though of it that way... True I did not specify what type of chat was to be use, but system chat would cause problems.
This causes quite the dilemma... originally I intended to have one STC in a system an float about in an undisclosed location above/below normal orbit, but now it looks like there should be one at every gate if possible, and in plain view to boot. and it would no longer be System chat, it would probably be group chat that gets changed every system. Each STC in a system belong to one group and as traders pass through, they join the group at the entry point and leave at the exit point.

*BTW- the STC can and will double as an Emergency Warning System to all users with in their range. I remember one night New York was attacked by hackers(real ones, the ones that hacked into the game) and started blowing up ships in space. All ships that could, docked. I started spewing out a system-wide warning, something along the lines of:
"WARRNING TO ALL SHIPS IN NY SYSTEM DOCK OR LOG OFF FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY. A HACKER HAS TAKEN THE SYSTEM. THOSE ENTERING THE SYSTEM, TURN BACK"

I did that until i was booted off for base idling (i just hit F1 at the time too)

Anyway, any ship that entered the system was blown up for no reason (no signs of fire or another ship). No ship was spared, LN, BH, Corsairs, anyone. I don't know how the admins did it, but the next time I logged on, they were gone. Nobody knew the names of players that were doing it at the time.

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