If you want to hold an happy peaceful festival-like in game event there, at least have the decency to fix the stupid safe zone so people can't shoot cannons at the people on the beach. The effective range covers 2-3 quest NPCs.

Or ban those extremely bored people. 

Yes, there are alternatives (switch server...etc) but annoying griefers should be punished. 

for some reason, some of the areas aren't safe zones, why? just make the entire area safe zone already, half-ass garbage

Exactly.