[Tyhm]

There's a way to put it in a system NPC...as long as it's in a timeout loop anyway, it's trivial and primarily client-lag to have it send playerentersarea(playerid) to any NPCs it's entered the area of, assuming said NPCs have a detectable size.

But yes, it'd be a wonderful feature if Stefan were to add it.

In the meantime, I suppose I'll have to keep the baddies scripted with a .05 timeout loop on the off chance players are walking backwards or being pushed by conveyer belts, winds, or strong currents...
I suppose it might be possible to just script anything that moves a player unduly to launch playertouchsme() at anything the player's pushed into...a bit of an overhead on that, but with joins, why not?