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Improve how pilots are informed about various factional rules and regulations.
Recently I have been reading feedback from various players about their experiences with the recent factional penalty changes in the game. I feel that a lot of the complaints are more due to a lack of information (from the game) than the perceived harshness of breaking those rules.
I propose that every new pilot is given a pop up when entering a nation/subfaction space for the first time. This popup will welcome the pilot, tell them the rules and maybe state what kind of interesting bonuses POS pilots get (like discounts and whatnot). While a bit spammy, this would inform all pilots. There would be a check box to turn off popup.
In addition I propose that the faction standings page in the PDA (under character) be updated to include these regulations, as well as include current per pilot stats; so that pilots are fully informed. Temporarily kill on sight might be renamed to Banned. And a countdown timer till unbanned would be placed on each faction progress bar. A warning would be placed next to each stat if the next nonhated pilot kill would result in a ban.
I imagine that different factions would have different rules. Some more lax than others.
I propose that every new pilot is given a pop up when entering a nation/subfaction space for the first time. This popup will welcome the pilot, tell them the rules and maybe state what kind of interesting bonuses POS pilots get (like discounts and whatnot). While a bit spammy, this would inform all pilots. There would be a check box to turn off popup.
In addition I propose that the faction standings page in the PDA (under character) be updated to include these regulations, as well as include current per pilot stats; so that pilots are fully informed. Temporarily kill on sight might be renamed to Banned. And a countdown timer till unbanned would be placed on each faction progress bar. A warning would be placed next to each stat if the next nonhated pilot kill would result in a ban.
I imagine that different factions would have different rules. Some more lax than others.
I really like this idea. It gives a lot more transparency about the faction standing system.
A popup mid-flight might not be the best thing, maybe when they dock the first time to a faction? I know that could be already too late in some cases.
A popup mid-flight might not be the best thing, maybe when they dock the first time to a faction? I know that could be already too late in some cases.
+1, so obviously a great idea that should have been implemented long ago. Pop ups are fine on PC but mobile might do better with some kind of blinking notification indicator (that I’ve suggested for other things)
+1 I LOVE this idea!
+1 to seeing more info about violations in the faction standing page, not sure about the popup but as long as it's a 1 time thing it's probably fine
++11 with the new rule, this is even more important, there should be a screen we can see updates on how much time we have until the various timers run out and what our status is! @incarnate
+ 1 This seems a no-brainer. Hopefully it's an easy coding thing for the Devs. Low hanging fruit like this is fun to see implemented.
On a side note: is anyone able to jam together a plugin that can track kills in faction space? Maybe something that compares the kill notification to the factionID of the current sector and sets a time/date stamp in a systemxxxnotes.txt?
Then maybe call it up with a command like /killinfo
Then maybe call it up with a command like /killinfo
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