"Thargoids are attacking! Help! Oh, but don't shoot, please. We have rules, you know."
- Thread starter Florenus
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I was about to say this reminds me of the Gnosis being attacked in Cone Sector... It had the same nonsense where thargoids were attacking ships on the landing pad but CMDR's essentially had to leg it out of the NFZ before returning fire and thus defending the Gnosis, the very ship that would slap fines (or was it bounties?) upon them.
Pff, just a world? Pretty tiny war, all things considered.
Yes
No fire zones are just for "realism" thing that when linked into the rest of the game mechanics, is a classic case of realism getting in the way of gameplay.
I'm curious if Fdev moved it, or AX CZ and Megaship simply have different orbital velocity and will move away from eachother...Looks like the AX CZ was moved away from the ship to about 2ls away
I went there earlier and it was 10km away (you could see the fighting from the ship) but when I went back a while later it was gone.
we need to know, FOR SCIENCE!
For that you don't need Thargoids
My female canines were always well-behaved, balanced and extremely social beings.
Isn't it anti-griefing mechanics? In theory NFZ prevents mailslot camping - position yourself in line with mailslot, outside the station, deploy hardpoints and release occasional barrage of missiles upon those who attempt to leave the station. This, with abysmally short range of any weapon and microscopic mailslot size are means agains ill willed CMDRs.
But -hitting- another commander already gives you a bounty and makes a station attack you.
Firing and missing doesn't affect another commander.
Currently.
But imagine that station's weapon ange remains the same while range of your missiles is greater. That way you can sit beyond station's reach while still being able to shoot freely. That's why now NFZ is so large and weapon range is so short.
And bounty - some people misbehaved anyway and last year's C&P changes were introduced.
I think we still need the NFZ, but the mechanics should be intelligent enough to turn it off if the station/facility/ship is under Thargoid attack.
Stephen Benedetti
Community Manager
Deactivate the NFZ, then instead of being broken its just a fun new challenge.
Soooooo much this!