waiting 48 hours doesnt do crap in the "now" when someone is spamming you non stop, making it difficult for you to play. You cant pvp, you cant npc, you cant even retal on the yahoo doing it to you because he is hiding behind his zeros.

Nobody and I mean nobody, i dont care what you did or didnt do to them, should be able to use offensive artis to disrupt your gaming time in absolute safety. That is my opinion and I doubt seriously that anyone will be able to change my mind about it. Though feel free to try.

My town has an unusual ordinance on the books which allows you to take a sledgehammer to any red car you see from 12:30pm Tuesday until 12:29pm on Thursday. I drive a red car, and two days out of every week, I am forced to stay away from my home, my family, my trusty dog, because every time I drive within city limits, some wild-eyed psychopath starts running after my car swinging a sledgehammer -- and I can't even do anything about it because of the absurd way the town's municipal codes are written. Nada, zilch. He causes $3,000 in body damage to my car, he gets away scot-free, but if I dare to hit him back, it's a trip to the slammer. And worst of all, every time I go to a city council to complain, the managers either refuse to show up and/or respond, or some heckler shows up at the meeting to tell me to get over myself, cuz I probably gave the sledgehammer-wielders "some kind of motive."

The lack of response coupled with the insinuation that I somehow "asked for it" is both frustrating and insulting. Maybe it's time to move to a different town?

As always, +1 to this idea

I have an annoying ship with zero actions that spammed me minutes ago and I find it annoying that i can't do anything. This has always been a problem. It should really be addressed -_-

im kind of good either way on this...i mean they have kind of been punished and likely will be again if they are at zero actions..

many times people who are getting spammed by peeps at zero count have been, let's say less than kind to those people....

On other hand, its fairly weak to allow someone to spam with pretty much no recourse ---reverse deuchbaggery

I haven't really encountered this problem but +1 by all means. Using an offensive artifact is an attack and should be treated as such.

uh no.

an ATTACK is an attack.

using an offensive arti counts against your TM actions, so there is already some consequence. artis are there to be used.

What are you, Yogi Berra? If a raid or a hack counts as an attack, containment missiles and tactical inner bypasses certainly should, they're much more annoying.

To be fair, there is only a consequence if said person spamming has any intent whatsoever of raiding/hacking someone in the first place.

There are and have been many players in the past whom will just while away a few hours tossing artifacts at random players for no rhyme nor reason, save their wanting to ruin another persons gameplay.

If anything, having an offensive arti(all of them) adding +1 to your actions actually makes things much easier to track. As it is, alot of players ask why they're tm locked when their actions are at 48/50/50, as they don't realize that all those chaostatics, emp's or krio torps added +1 to their actions(albeit invisibly).

If we made those actions visibly count instead of being an invisible secondary counter that only prevents your own timers, then not only would people think twice about the random spamming they do, it may even cut down on spam used for badgeing purposes, as their action counts would no longer be 25/27/27 they could be something crazy as 299/301/301 just from spamming 6 or so players.

just my two cents on the matter