Barracuda wrote: Timer... this should protect those who do nothing.
Perhaps:
KEY
*Protection for non-aggressive players*
@Aggressive players@
*For players that have no record of aggression against any players for 12 hours,*
*Max hacked/raided 12x per 12 hours*
*Max killed 2 times per 12 hours*
@ Should the player resort to hack/raid/attack others, automatically
@ Max hack/raided upped to 6x per hour (counter reseted to 0 upon any aggression)
@ Max disable 12 time per 12 hours (counter reseted to 0 upon any aggression)
CASES:
[CASE1]For timer reseting:
Player 1 kills Player 2 2x in 1 hour and hack/raid 12x in the same hour (player 2 will have protection *marked with asterisks on top*, so invulnerable to attacks/hack/raid for 12 hours)
Player 2 decides to kill Player 1. Attacks. Player 2 loses protection, becoming effect @ so Player 1 can kill Player 2 12x instead
[CASE2]
Player 1 and 2 continuously trade disables/hacks/raids. Their counters keep resetting to zero. So it leads to infinite disables/raid/hacks per hour. That way 'actual continuous PvP' ain't destroyed in the process as they can still drag such a battle to last a long time without the timers affecting them.
NOTE: Means aggressive players will have less protection for 12 hours after any aggression. Perhaps put a timer on Ship tab which only the player can see as a tool-tip on Size Class: "Aggressive mode: 12 hours remaining"
Also, put a "Passive" mode in ship tab. When it is ticked, the player cannot do anything aggressive, thus effect @ @ won't be triggered accidentally.
This change should not affect aggressors too much as the current limit is infinite anyway.
Only the victims be affected the most.
Thoughts?
This has a ton of holes in it, not to mention too many ways to exploit it. Since I assume you are talking about total hacks and attacks, since the post is about people ganging up on other people, not one on one battles, here are a few holes and exploits below.
Exploit 1) Player 1 kills Player 2 and has Player 3, a non legion'd friend, hack him 12 times and lock him down for 12 hours. Creating immunities for himself. With your aggression model, he could keep on doing this.
Exploit 2) If the cap is per person, and not total, it still doesn't fix the issue of being ganged up, and in fact can make it even worse, because the timer stops players from doing a ton of hacks attacks all at once, but your system if based on the individual would allow all of the people in the alerted legion to hack 12 times right away.
Exploit 3) Assuming the caps are global: player 1 hacks player 3, player 3 alerts player 2 + 20 others, and they lock him down. Now Player 1 doesn't dare do anything for fear of opening him or herself up to even more hits. This doesn't make the situation better, but worse. Now what may have started out as an innocent volley of attacks and/or hacks, is going to force the player to stop playing or continue to get bombarded.
I can think of more ways to exploit, but these are the main ones. In my experience if you try to over complicate something and have too many rules, it leads to more ways to exploit the situation. While the idea has merit, it is very rough and in it's current condition too riddled with ways to take advantage. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding the idea.
To compensate for your "do nothing" The system could change so that a person that is hacking, can hack every 15 minutes, but the person getting hacked can only get hacked once every 25-30 minutes. As far as I am concerned, attacking doesn't need to be changed. If you want to be left alone for a little while, just don't fix the ship. If that isn't enough, then I suppose you could put a hard cap on how many times you can be killed in a day and then it activates a protection preventing the person from attacking or being attacked for 24 hours. (The person can disable this if they choose though.)
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Of course, don't want timer to be displayed however.. It should be private..
