Player A, the ATTACKER, has NO options. Only the ATTACKEE has the option to mark the ATTACKER team enemy.

that can be exploited thummper.

I had considered allowing people to mark Team Enemy, but the more I think about it the more I don't like it. If someone attacks your ship, you shouldn't be able to turn your entire team's bases against them at will without the use of warmongering. In my opinion, PvP and PvB should be separated entirely. Otherwise you just get the same problem you have now - its not worth attacking someone on a big team if you get marked team enemy and you get constantly shot at by bases while traveling.

Now there are problems with this - for example, you can't declare war on a lone wolf (no team). Also team hopping can be used to avoid war mongering.

Ideally what I want to do is to make team hopping impossible, or not work to avoid war mongering. I'm not sure what to do about someone who remains team less, but the easiest solution is probably just for the players to handle it themselves.

Put a time limit of 24 or 48 hours ( ideally 48 ) before you can join a new team. I dont know qutie how you could fix the no team though.

I think it sounds pretty good. I would add that if you attack a permanent drone or base anywhere (owned galaxy or not) (edit: or trading slave), you become team enemy, since attacking infrastructure is a serious matter and probably the biggest form of griefing.

I would also consider adding three more things:

1) When killed by a player, no death debt is incurred

2) When killed by a player and GG is used, the GG pops out as a drop.

3) Maybe some kind of glory system where if you kill someone that has equal or higher glory than you, he loses one and you gain one. If you have less than 10 glory and level up, then you also get +1 glory. The average glory of all players on the team would replace the glory in the team scores and be an important ingredient in determining which teams can run for emperor.

So basically, if you have glory 10 and kill another player with glory 10, you now have glory 11 and he has 9. The only way to get to glory 12 is to find and kill a player who has glory of 11+. This will tend to pit the PvPers against one another and make the true champions of PvP seek each other out so they can continue to advance in their glory. Or in other words, there is no glory in continuing to kill the same chump.

Implement all 3.

And the higher your glory, the more respect you get from AI.

If you have a very high glory, nothing short of an AI boss will shoot you.

Trading slaves should be considered part of team infastructure and an attack on them would mean team enemy

a) whens the last time you lost gg to pvp. Majority of gg loses are to ai so the gg sales wouldn't drop much..

b) this is to provide incentive to pvp, to be good at pvp so its onyl fair that the people who are good at pvp get rewarded.

c) youd have to be pretty precise with killing your budy to make sure grim doesn't kill him. I suppose with vjack/MD it isnt that hard but still.. If you cna do tat your proly better off to just get the agro on yourself or kill the ai. Perhaps though, this gg drops don't apply when squaded or teamed.

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!

This would rock. You could also add a highest glory point list to the bulletin board. Then PvPers could duke it out Highlander-style with the champ getting something like an Imp Seal at the end of every uni.

It really doesnt matter, your gonna lose GG either way...

What about in a situation where Crazy Glue works? Would the GG still drop?

Obviously not.

o god yes.