Admin Notice: Anti-F1 changes

[Jinx]

imo - the plug in is good for the greatest part as it is now.

that is ... if :

- unintentional disconnects are not affected too much
- the time counts that a player actually left the game, NOT when the ship leaves the game-
- its only cargo

basicly everything that was desribed...


now - if possible, i d back up to exclude certain ships ( of if that doesn t work .... certain IDs from it ).

- miners for example are meant to not only spend most of their time in space, but are also rather likely to log out/in there ... intentionally.
- the barge should be excluded, cause that ship is simply not supposed to dock but it is supposed to log in space

what we must be aware of is:

- players WILL find their ways around. - so if the goal is to get rid of the rule.. i do not think that it will succeed. a player that values his cargo higher than a simply pirate RP request will also risk to pull his cable and reboot.

- we might also need to install a piracy limit ( which we don t "really" have ) - in many cases i don t like F1 traders - but when a trader is asked for a rediculous amount of money like 5 million or more on a run that does the same amount or even less, then i actually DO symphasize with a F1 trader. - this plug in sanctions one side only right now.

it doesn t really need a rule for that, but a guideline. - the argument "but you do 100 million in one hour" is as valid as saying "i can attack your battleship with 12 bombers and consider it fair, cause you are supposed to fly with escorts" ( or in other words, totally void )



all in all - the plug in is good. - really....
.... but it won t solve any problems, i believe. i wouldn t say that it creates more. - but i think it only shuffles the problems around a bit. before we had annoyed and frustrated pirates. now we get annoyed and frustrated traders.

and EVERY trader that disconnects will claim by default that it was no F1 but a true disconnect - and will claim that he was punished unfairly. - just as none of the F1 traders so far would openly say that they just intentionally did the F1. ( unless they re really dim )

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