police vs Pirates

[tfmachad]

Um ... what are you going on about? This is a role play server. If the police (which the LSF are not) cannot catch the smuggler with the loot before he docks, too late and too bad. Don't take it out on the innocent passengers. If he undocks with something else (like commodities or something not breathing) then by all means make an example of him.

Well, Archelon, what I'm saying is that since this is a RP server we should behave in a more consistent fashion than the NPCs. See, if the smuggler is avoiding police, he probably wouldn't have the time to calmly stop and sell tickets to over four thousand passengers in the first place. Would him?

Also, we lack "non-lethal" ways of dealing with criminals once they decide not to role play encounters with law enforcing forces. If the law enforcement says, "Stop!" and the guy runs and won't stop by anything, in the end, the only possible solution is destroy his ship. There's no aiming at engines to stop a vessel in Freelancer, simple as that. RP-wise, we have to make a compromise everyday that destroying a ship won't kill it's occupant(s). Don't we? Otherwise we'd have to start new characters every time a ship is destroyed.

Finally, Archelon, my point was, as what happens with pirates and traders, if the guy won't play along in a RP fashion, what can we do?

Now I ask you, what are you going on about? There's a known criminal (be it for smuggling, be it for disobeying orders) passing right under the collective noses of the law enforcers. You're saying that since he's carrying passengers they'll leave him be like nothing happened? Because, if he refuses orders to stop, there's nothing short of destroying his ship to do so.

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