Station response to weapons-fire

[mistohise]

As per discussion in https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=105117

Please have stations react accordingly to weapons being fired -

1. Firing a weapon should instantly revoke existing docking clearance. (Require exit if the firer is in the station at the time)
2. Continued weapons fire post-1 should result in lethal response.

In a world where you lose clearance (albeit temporarily) for "loitering" it's incongruous that people can fire weapons in a station and then merrily dock like nothing happened.

 

[Vorxian]

+1

Something simple as detecting hard points extended provokes some anxiety in station security and they'll start balling warnings before zapping your ship. Fire, and oh boy them security guards smoking cigars will spit them out, revoke your docking clearance, whilst helping you out with lazer fire. Shooting anywhere in the no fire zone, let alone inside the station itself should make security VERY angry.

Caveat being, in anarchy systems maybe this could be slightly different, however.... make the whole anarchy thing a bit more emersive perhaps.

 

[Tryst]

+1

Something simple as detecting hard points extended provokes some anxiety in station security and they'll start balling warnings before zapping your ship. Fire, and oh boy them security guards smoking cigars will spit them out, revoke your docking clearance, whilst helping you out with lazer fire. Shooting anywhere in the no fire zone, let alone inside the station itself should make security VERY angry.

Caveat being, in anarchy systems maybe this could be slightly different, however.... make the whole anarchy thing a bit more emersive perhaps.

+1

I agree with everything you said.

 

[Slippery Jim DiGriz]

Excluding purely defensive systems such as point defence.

If somebody outside the no-fire zone fires a missile at the station or at somebody in the no-fire zone then if a ship in the zone knocks out the incoming missile the response of the station should be gratitude not the instant destruction of the "helpful" ship.

 

[mistohise]

Excluding purely defensive systems such as point defence.

If somebody outside the no-fire zone fires a missile at the station or at somebody in the no-fire zone then if a ship in the zone knocks out the incoming missile the response of the station should be gratitude not the instant destruction of the "helpful" ship.

Yar, fixing the point defence issue was already being looked at I believe, and is of course required.