This is a suggestion to the Funcom Live programming team that might help the story guys a bit. Think about giving your GMs the capability to generate a hard barrier shield. Players, other than flag-toggled GM ones, cannot enter or stay within this shield.
Code wise, it's an exclusion sphere, that will teleport the players on a radial to just outside of the sphere. If you want, you can also toggle a no-combat field inside.
Why bother doing this? Well, speaking events generally turn out to be "GET OFF THE DAMNED PLATFORM" shouting events instead. Why not just nip it in the beginning and exclude the platform from players. As a sci-fi setting, a barrier shield is very likely plausible. You can say that it takes tremendous amounts of focused nanos or the concentration of the ARKs to generate one hence they're very rare.
Just a suggestion.
Tappert
