Suggestion: Warn on jump to anarchy system

[eza]

I spend time in anarchy systems, interdicting and shooting players in combat ships, and chatting to new players in Sidewinders and Haulers.
When I tell new people that they're in an anarchy system, most seem surprised and thank me for letting them know.

It seems that a good addition would be to warn players when they initiate a jump to an anarchy system (with a "don't show this again" checkbox) so that doing so is a conscious decision.

Alternatively, an option to the route planner to "avoid lawless systems" might be nice for those players operating within 'safe' space.

 

[Logan 5]

Why not kill the sidey's and haulers?

strange....Anarchy has no rules....

 

[eza]

heheh I know
I just can't bring myself to kill the defenceless ones.

When I started hanging around anarchies, my first catch was a Cobra, and I meant to let him go with 20% hull but accidentally squeezed the trigger too hard, engaging the second stage of the trigger on my joystick (TM Warthog) and sending a frag cannon salvo at him, popping him immediately.
I felt quite guilty about that for a while.

My second catch was a Vulture. Got him down to 20% hull and then stopped shooting and started typing a chat message to him, but he decided to ram me and exploded.
I didn't feel at all guilty about that :-D

 

[DragoonKnight]

I spend time in anarchy systems, interdicting and shooting players in combat ships, and chatting to new players in Sidewinders and Haulers.
When I tell new people that they're in an anarchy system, most seem surprised and thank me for letting them know.

It seems that a good addition would be to warn players when they initiate a jump to an anarchy system (with a "don't show this again" checkbox) so that doing so is a conscious decision.

Alternatively, an option to the route planner to "avoid lawless systems" might be nice for those players operating within 'safe' space.

I disagree because players already have a small display on the bottom left showing them where they are jumping to and what kind of government is in that system. It may be better to offer a video tutorial explaining the differences than to baby sit them like this.
After all, the NAV in my car does not give me a warning when I drive into a crappy neighborhood.

 

[Cyberneticist]

After all, the NAV in my car does not give me a warning when I drive into a crappy neighborhood.

That's because Microsoft has patented the "Avoid bad neighborhood" feature and the manufacturers don't want to pay license fees.

 

[DragoonKnight]

That's because Microsoft has patented the "Avoid bad neighborhood" feature and the manufacturers don't want to pay license fees.

It would probably get a lot of bad press from all the politically correct people who will accuse the GPS of being racist. Then we will see dozens of news stories about how great the crappy neighborhoods are and what a wonderful sense of community they have.