Getting to Arena for an event

Good idea, but it's place is here: Request: Questions, suggestions for CF 2.0
And moreover, be careful with Discovery references, sometimes it works as "berserk button" for some guys here.

I fear that such feature will be used for many bad things like shorten way, avoiding rp etc.

And mainly, player on CF have many ways how to be on event in time. If he lose event bcs going late, he will learn for next time.

Such features are not for EMs and not even for normal GRs, so Forlon's fear is just a beggining of why this idea won't work.

Arena is right next to X, linked in 2-3 systems ways to New London, New York, New Berlin and New Tokyo, literally every part of Sirius. Players are announced/called since a lot of time before the event, if they come late they are those to be blamed, and the EM doesn't have to wait so long that other participants have to leave (sleep, dinner, etc). 5-15 minutes if participants are ok with it, if not, better luck next time for the one late.

Sounds like a great idea on paper, but there is obvious fear of abuse. If there was a GR constantly on (rotating GRs but one on at least each time) then maybe, but there won't be enough GRs to make it work, and like Pui said, there are many people with ERs which opens the door to possible abuse. Like Michael said, unless you are in the IC or Coalition space, X and Arena is about 2-3 jumps away from the closest Sirius "capital" system.

[threadmoved]Anyways moved the thread to the "Crossfire Mod Development" part of the portal[/threadmoved]

No.

I do see the advantages it has, the ones you say, but I also see the disadvantages which are more than just the danger to be abused part.

If somebody "really" wants something, then he "really" has a reason to prepare for the event, not to expect miracles happen in the last moment (like getting teleported). It is also why there is no limit on how many chars you can have, and IDs. There is no excuse to say stuff like "This is my racer LF char, but I wanted to take a ride through Inner Core right at the hour of the event and now I really want to be in the race event!!!!!". Bad calls have repercussions.

Other events only need normal fighter ships, and people need more than a fighter char. One for Arena duels, for RP, for ASF vs CSF, for Coalition, etc. So it doesn't have sense to "really want to participate in xyz char, which is in Banysia" when you got a char sitting in X 3043, which is normal.

And this is another reason why people on the server should at least VISIT the Swat Portal. To be informed on at least the special events happening around. EMs, and some GRs help with advertising certain events, but there will still be some who never saw that on the server.

Anyway, there was a while I was managing nearly half of the official events, for months, and I never seen such cases... people tend to come in the last minute, or a bit late, even 10 minutes late for coming out from Earth, but not such extreme fail cases like 30 minutes late (as what I saw here).

EMs are any normal player who wished and offered to help managing the events, but if there were extra powers coming with it, we'd have too many people as EMs, to use such powers on their normal tagged chars. Same as how I see people using universal chat on clan tagged chars, now. (this because the way permissions work, are on entire IDs, not a single character).

Adding a "special" command just for the events, to Arena, makes a job for Huor, who works on the hook, and the other suggested commands for the hook, so we should also wait for his opinion, if he does this, other things have to stay on pause.

Michael Bingo. Most of the people on the server that have played for a few months have multiple fighters anyways, so there's got to be always one in Sirius Sector available to switch to when you reach some IC/Coalition bases.

True that is, and yes this power would only be accessible to GR's and EM's. But the then the EM's if not already have, would have to setup a individual ID just for the EM char, as the GR's do, the powers are not designated towards a single char, but the ID itself