I would kind of like to give all DG bosses a mini lockout of 30 minutes or something, but I was afraid of what the angry mob would do to me. I guess it's not that different from instancing it, though.

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Add in a leaderboards and an incentive to pirate if your gonna restrict pirating to one tow and go. Check out my post.
Would make the game fun again (:

How will this "can't enter EF space while pirating" work towards healing ships. Trans damage is still dealth with as a "player attack" if I recall right which means die-ing to ai while dual dg'ing with a shm would lead to a kick for pvp?

I may just be old and old fashioned, but I really hate the idea of players being able to do DGs with no risk of pvp. Back in the old days, you learned to be a good "citizen" of SS by learning to wait your turn in DGs, not scoop the other guy's loot, etc. If you didn't mind your manners, you got zapped. Such an enormous non-pvp area is going to do nothing but breed rude players who can camp out there and not face any consequences for scamming on trades, being rude, or anything else. Right now, scammers quickly become KOS and learn their lesson. Not so with this system.

I know you're going for simple, but look at all the exploits pirates can currently use with EF protected space - running there to hide and charge up, or even parking an MCed Shm there to autoheal them during a fight. At least in EF protected space, you can still kill them if you're willing to take the cop aggro and lose a gg of your own in the process. With this system,you will face the unintended consequence of giving sanctuary to pirates and scammers as well as pacifists.

As for the towing, I absolutely love the fact that if you got autotowed upon death you would be completely out of the fight for awhile, unable to spy on the other team in your spirit or see what's going on at all. Unfortunately, as everyone has pointed out, the system is way too full of complications from slaves, drones, etc., to be the "simple" solution you were looking for.

Im gonna suggest the dev design some sort of Galactic news that when a player is killed by another player within a certain # of jumps from EF space the kill is posted on some sort of news board shown in ai ports. basically something like this.

July 25 - 21:24:27
Faint[playername] in the ship[Shipname] was attacked and destroyed by renegade334[playername] piloting[shipname] in Star System Horrible Tucana.

or could say "Was podded by" or w/e u want it to say.

shows time stamp and location, also gives naming your ships a purpose. And possibly a little flag graphic of what teams of the players were on next to their names.

All of these ideas are pretty shit imo..

if some 1 talks shit to you..you cant do anything to him cause he can just stay in the none-pvp zones...