' Wrote:All or nearly all of the commodities that are only produced in Gallia are sold by both lawful and unlawful bases, so the existence of cryocubes/tobacco and other commodities in a cargo hold does not prove where the trader purchased them. The Brigands and Unione Corse are stealing shipments from the Gallic House and then selling them to whomever will pay for them.

Last time I was playing as my GRN character, I found a Sirian undocking from Planet Nevers with Tobacco. Did I file a rule violation report? Did I jump down his throat in PMs for being oorp? Did I tattletale on him to a faction leader? Did I start forum threads criticizing people?

No, no, no, and no.

Instead, I reacted to the entire situation completely within character, forced him to drop his cargo, and escorted him out of Gallia under threat of force. If I had done anything else, my only activity would have been consumed by absurd anger, ridiculous indignation, and generally making a fool out of myself - none of which is as much fun as forcing him to drop his cargo and escorting him out of Gallia.

Now if he had, for whatever reason, not been in Burgundy, not docked at Nevers, and not purchased tobacco, then I'd have simply had to sit around bored with nothing to do, because no one else was around. Apparently, some of you would prefer to sit around on your sanctimonious backsides with nothing to do except congratulate yourselves on superlative roleplay which no one else will ever see because no one is around to see it due to the enforcement of your legalistic interpretations.

As a lawful, the role is to intercept criminal and otherwise illegal activity. Calling segments of such activity oorp does nothing but eliminate a substantial amount of the opportunities for playing the role. It's criminal activity not because nobody physically can do it, but because people playing the lawful role are supposed to stop people playing the unlawful role from doing it. The lawbreaker runs the risk of getting caught, and earns the occasional reward of being successful as an incentive to keep trying, which gives the lawful his only reason to exist. Or haven't you noticed that when the lawbreakers disappear from a region so do the lawfuls?

In other words, if I'm online as my GRN, I hope anyone from any faction in Sirius shows up for whatever reason they care to roleplay, because that gives me something to do other than sitting around in an empty system "satisfied" that everyone is playing by the "rules" and therefore leaving me with nothing to do.

Oh, and kudos to the Sirian who played along, it was more fun than doing nothing.

' Wrote:Hit it Right on the Head ROUND OF APPLAUSE!

' Wrote:Go ahead an applause. I bet you see that kind of sportsmanship rarely.:sleep:

Xoria, I hope you did a bit more than just "have fun roleplaying". Those kind of traders
need only 2-3 weeks to evolve into dangerous Battleships with no regards to the
rules whatsoever.

None said you HAVE to go out of character to help the player understand his environment,
and expectations of other players.

None said you have to behave like an arse and file a report for such a minor mistake.
A mistake the player in question might have not been aware of in the first case.

What Tena did was originally good. If we don't want single players spoil the fun of many
we need to find a way to tell them.

Doing it through the forum is much much better than going OOC in-game.