Federal Idiot Forces

[Gleitfrosch]

Dear devs, please do something with the federal security (idiot) forces.

one of them moved into my fire during a fight and i got tagged as an enemy, i managed it to escape and flew to a station to pay my fine. during the landing process i got scanned by a fed sec ship and attacked, the mass lock made it impossible to escape and so i got killed by a player who is now 200 credits richer and i am 21.000 credits poorer because of the insurance costs, cargo and lost bounties.

my proposal:

give the fines for shooting some fed sec forces a timer, so the player will only get tagged as "wanted", if he doesnt pay the fine withing the given time.

 

[Tiamat]

There are many threads on this subject and your proposal is exploitable even more than the "threshold" suggestion which I picked apart here (and suggested amendments to) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=88205

In your suggestion I could murder anybody I liked without consequences as long as I paid the fine off in time. Remember you have to include players in whatever workaround is implemented too

See what you think of my suggestion and if you can think of ways to exploit it as I am keen to know if it would work.

 

[Katkon]

It takes two to tango. Can you be sure you didn't maneuver in behind the Fed in the heat of a dogfight? Just pay attention to your surroundings, maintaining situational awareness as you would if this were "real". You'll find that friendly fire incidents almost grind to a halt and you become a better pilot for it.

 

[Gleitfrosch]

Would be easy sto solve the problem, make a difference between npc and players. killing players would be handeled the same way it is now.
also add a "three strikes" rule. the fine would have a timer if you didnt destoy the npc and did more than X damage.

 

[BrewerGeorge]

Turning off your 'Report Crimes Against Me' flag sometimes helps with this. At least then, the Federales won't join fights to try to protect you.