/lockdown

[Senshi]

Nice idea.

Give it to official police factions. lockdown concerns tradelanes, gates and stations/planets with Police ID or the corresponding House factions. So no locking down Rochester;).

Lockdown is active for 4 min, "cooldown" is 4 min as well. Radius 10k. Make it affect only the targeted player.

Giving a higher recharge time than effect time is useless. The pirate only has to stall the officer 2 min and then can safely escape because the timer is up and the officer can't lock again.

But I fear coding all this would be quite a hazzle.

Currently I work with the simple inRP-lockdown. Write a chat message (or even setmessage, if you will) and deny the targeted (#t) player docking rights to the station/gate/planet. Most players do follow it, as it would be totally ooRP to dock anyway.

RP justification:
The chat message is a notification to the (inRP) docking control station to deny docking rights for that individual. And jumpgates? As they are automated, it's simple: All police vessels have an integrated high-security-transponder unit that allows them to access gates directly and deny usage to individuals. Criminals can't get them because they are secured like the Ageira white boxes - open 'em and poof. Only guys who might circumvent that are lane hackers. And even they should inRP require some time to hack the gate systems.

Guys who don't follow this inRP lockdown I either ignore for their unwillingness to RP or you could even target a sanction, if you really wanted to.