In light of recent and ridiculous changes made to standing for NFZ violations, I propose we have a feature added to the game that allows automatic deactivation of weapons triggers when in NFZ.

This will prevent massive standing loss from silly mistakes.

It's a minor loss, PoS to admire. From what inc said, it's probably only a few standing points. They might be tough to earn but it's certainly not a "massive" loss.

It is one point, you drop to +999. I agree it is a bit silly, but that extra one point gets you exactly nothing right now. Faction loss is hardest at admire, and it does not get any worse for killing a POS player. Currently nothing in the game requires you to have +1000. No benefit at all, no reduced prices or any of the other benefits POS players seem to think they get.

If you want this as an option that you opt in to, then sure, add it, more options the better in a game like this. But I would be seriously upset if NFZ started to actually mean NFZ just because I was POS somewhere (imagine chasing someone to a station, lining up the kill-shot as they dock, then WTF? Cannot fire...). If they add some benefit to being POS, then maybe it could be revisited as losing it would actually mean something, right now? Just seems like not shooting could be easy? Do you really accidently shoot things while you dock often?

Maybe there should be a plugin for this?

Was duelling with someone, accidentally got into NFZ, didn't notice, and the strike force was after me...

While recognizing that communication is always imperfect, perhaps we could seek clarity about possible issues, before burning a lot of energy being excessively reactionary about them.

Back to the topic at hand, people should let me know if this is still something they think should exist.

I think the change is perfectly fine.

One should be situationally aware when firing deadly weapons. And fully responsible for one's expended ammunition.

Maybe there should be a plugin for this?

If i was the plugin making sort, what i would do is modify sound alert suite to have an option to trigger the weapon safe mode upon entering the nfz.





But i'm lazy(most my personal plugins are not fit for public consumption) . I'm sure someone like luxen could come up with something more elegant.

Setting aside the reaction to the recent change, a weapons safety is a pretty standard feature regarding "firing deadly weapons".

It's not like I'm suggesting some totally outlandish idea.

And we ALL have accidentally shot in the NFZ. It's so easy to do, whether by slip of the mouse or what have you. In fact, it's pretty much guaranteed that every player will do this a couple times by accident.

But by all means, please justify not implementing this because a player who finds joy in baiting people to violate NFZ rules thinks the status quo is all good.

You could always take Chocolateer's WeaponSafe plugin and make it safe your weapons on event ENTER_ZONE_NFZ

maybe a weapon safety command? /weapons safe and /weapons free

Setting aside the reaction to the recent change, a weapons safety is a pretty standard feature

Yes it is. Note my screen shot. It is built into the game already, you just need to bind it to a key.