12 hours is sufficient to map the entire server, if someone has a free day.
Naturally it's up to developers to decide this, but I was thinking about cooldown time 30 minutes. If someone uses command before 30 minutes since the last use passes, cost gets higher, and higher, and higher...
First use - 3M
Second use, before cooldown time passes - 9M
27M
81M
243M
729M
etc etc...
@ Rodent
Effort neutralisation in a way too big universe is the point here. And abuse isn't differing much from having many ships docked in various places. But I can understand you and others who're worried about possible abuse; I think it's overreacting though.
Technically speaking, what does that command do? It saves time currently spent on going through empty big space.
Yes, there are griefers. Sooner or later they get banned. If some griefer holds grudge against person/faction, using Freelancer Account Manager to make dozen or more ships and dock them in strategic for his stalking locations is no lesser abuse than beaming ship to those locations.
Actually, with beam command extensive use cost goes up exponentially, what means plain making multiple chars is much cheaper. Turns out FAM is more open for abuse than that command.
@ Jack
(03-24-2014, 02:40 PM)Pavel Wrote: I suppouse it's possible to restrict cruisers and above from using it, if it proves to be problematic for the server.
Besides that, honestly, what building up forces? With shield nerf lvl4 base goes down to 10 battleships in under an hour. Nothing stops people from 3am sieges. Majority of current POBs placed in visible known locations is going to poof sooner or later Jack, regardless can people move their dreads immediately to target system or will they dock their ships somewhere close to the POB week before siege, going there "normally."
