(12-01-2020, 12:15 PM)diamond1 Wrote:

(11-29-2020, 04:25 PM)Groshyr Wrote: As Markam offered, I would give police a ship for intercepting. Something like police version of Armoured Transport but with 375 or 400 cruise speed and 'police' skin, if possible to find a unified one for all the houses. With the CD you mentioned, police may become really good for hunting for smugglers. Probably, may be a good idea to allow indies limit dock as well but for smaller time.

(11-30-2020, 06:38 PM)Relation-Ship Wrote:

(11-29-2020, 04:21 PM)Mephistoles Wrote: Many cool and good posts here, thanks for the input team.

I want to give police IDs some cool new toys.

For example, a quick easy one is a CD you can only mount if you have a police ID, that has a longer range than the existing ones, giving it some extra utility to chase that smuggler who has gotten just out of your 3k train CD range, while not really affecting its pvp performance. Obviously not a magic "now we have five official police factions" button, just something nice you can use while playing police.

Another cool toy would be a command to lock jumpgates, similar to nodock.

What would you give the police?

how about a "scrambler" command that will make you invisible in the player list for X time
All it will show is that some cop is logged somewhere
but hide name+location+level


I really like your thinking btw - at this stage of the game limiting other IDs just shouldn't be an option. but buffing unplayed ones - definitely a good direction.


Speaking of which - how about a cheap police only CLD and overpowered and/or cheap scanner

CLD could be in-built into police CM like nomad one is. And secret services could have a cheap cloak as well.

Honestly it does get quite boring to see only official players use unique little toys. and smuggling is rarely a challenge nowadays. Something like this would be lovely as i miss the feeling of having adrenaline running up my back not knowing where the person is. And frankly, I'm outright tired of being scanned by warships instead of snubs. Something new would be great. I want the " OH **** " Feeling again.

(12-01-2020, 02:11 PM)Silverlight Wrote: Police could get bonuses on prisoner transporting?

(11-27-2020, 05:54 PM)Zentor Wrote:

(11-27-2020, 11:52 AM)Binski Wrote: Well now unless a House is at war it makes sense to think about placing inrp laws against navy ships being used for patrolling inside of a house. Perhaps they should be limited to border systems and deployments outside of a house. That leaves police as the main choice for operating inside of house space. And, if left inrp then technically the house gov would need to request navy assistance, and could grant permissions for sieges of illegals bases inside house space, if necessary. That would leave navies mostly clinging to the edges of their houses.

The key here is also in having things to do. Smuggling is dead, building secret bases is dead.

Add an atmospheric dock point that accepts transports to every dockable planet as a quasi/unlawful landing option for every planet and more would try smuggling again. Also, make smuggling far more profitable than lawful trading. There should be a big temptation to smuggle for easy money, which of course comes with more risk.

Adding some kind of a battle pob or player buildable weapons platform that could be used by unlawfuls to claim territory, or used by players on any side of a war, would also give players in any situation more to do. Whether it be in navy or police jurisdiction, having more disposable enemy bases/objects to remove by force would create some new activity.

+1 Smuggling needs revival. Doing so would give more emphasis on stopping them.