why not just disable pvp unless both teams are at war with one another.

just no no and no did i mention i would like to say no.

I say no while you read my no so you can read no whiel you read no.

only by pressing u and 'die' while in spirit form, that way you have a choice.

After you have been killed by a player you have the option to turn pvp off for an hour?

Make it that PVP is dependant on zones, aka if you are in:

W3: the pvp range is already higher, if you get killed by anyone, they can kill you again and again for a few times until a 10 minute timer of a no pvp comes in (or however long, this is only an example)

W2: Pvp range is lower, you can be killed by a pirate maybe two or three times before invuln comes in.

W1: You can be killed once before you get a 20 minute timer.

Thats from being attacked by a complete random, if you are at war with a team, or you attacked them first, disregard, just wait and deal with the consequence, if a team has warred you, then same rules may apply.

The whole appeal of making bases is that you can lose them anytime, it gives you that feeling of actually owning something that has an impact, so you can't make Permanent non pvp teams otherwise resources are heavily impacted.

I suspect that the real problem has something to do with 'Space' levels.

E.G you can hit level 100~ max in earthforce space. Great, it's a low level zone! So what about pvp protection in these areas?

Perilous space is pretty much the staple leveling area for level 500+ players. Therefore if you were to implement protection based upon the layer of space occupied new players would still be targeted (I spent many hours flying around perilous space in my earth force cruiser, preying upon big greens and running from the Grim Reaver).

I suggest that more profitable activities: dangerous mission chains (etc) take place in lower pvp restricted zones. Earthforce space would be suitable for leveling from 1-1k (given time); whereas wild space would offer more efficient leveling techniques and (possibly) better drops.

What we see here is a system for richer, high level alts and genuine new players to co-exist. If a pirate decides to go and kill people hanging around in the 'newbie zone' he will be faced with huge penalties (due to going against the system). If he wishes to kill 'high level alts' he may do so, but these 'alts' should be more capable of defending themselves than a new player.

I would suggest making the 'dangerous' missions more rewarding; perhaps even account locked (E.G get a batch of warden BPs+ a warden for completing a modified bonnet mission chain).

This just popped in to my head so I decided to post. I'm merely suggesting an overhaul to the leveling system BEFORE any attempts are made to fix 'griefing'. If a player has been sufficiently warned of the risks an advantages surrounding the more dangerous (and lucrative) sectors of space they can make their decisions based upon personal preference... Please feel free to point out any errors in my suggestion, thank you.

Make it so that if you are killed in PvP, you have 3 options

You can just wait there and continue to die/or pvp.

You can type "/home", which will automatically teleport your spirit to your team's HQ. the team's HQ would have a towing service. That way, if you die and you cant leave, you will lose money instead of time.

You can type "/protect" which will teleport your spirit to Sol so you can tow your ship. Which means you lose money instead of time.

Kind of, but the second two options would still have a potentially hefty time cost of returning to whatever content you were doing when you were pirated, not to mention regearing any slaves that were killed (and how would your suggestion deal with slaves, anyway?).