Liberty Police, Inc.

[Jinx]

edit: this is regarding turkishs? post.. ( or the LSF/ Navys point of view )

hm - clear words which i don t agree with much. about getting "stuck up"...

about the chain of comands... its not cause the roleplay says so, but cause the factions have been around longer and are more established. such a chain of comands does not exist, when its all down to roleplay - especially when you consider that the LPI is privatly financed - but has more or less free reign on how to deal with what they have to do.

- a very clear definition of each factions duty must be defined. so - it can for example be:

LPI: deal with criminals that are flying in nothing bigger than a fighter ( including LF, HF, VHF, Bomber, SHF ). for any greater ship, you d call the LSF / navy. ( or if you are overwhelmed by fighters ), scan for contrabant and eventually report transports ( no need to fight them to stop them, they are too big )

LSF: assist the LPI / Navy when asked for and deal with special tasks, such as stopping a heavy transport. deal with gunboats and stuff that is just too big for LPI.

Navy: protect liberty from military invasions aswell as assist against major threats such as cruisers, battleships and eventually assist the LSF against gunboats.

now, such a structure would on the opposite mean that - Navy has nothing to do with scanning for contraband and will not do it ( as simple as that ) - it would be, unless asked for, be considered "beneath the navy to do so". same thing with LSF, sort of. a highly specialized and trained LSF member won t hang around just somewhere scanning for contraband. thats what the LPI is doing.

now, i allready wrote about the problem about that... - its not the LPI that gets stuck up ... its rather the navy / lsf, *** when it comes to roleplay and roles ***. ( unless you convince me that it is actually the LSFs / navys job to scan for contraband )
cause most of the patrolling stuff is actually done by the police. - however, i do agree that the LPI would most probably stick to the lanes and lane crossings aswell as "camping" planets and stations.

which brings me from the roleplay point of view to the gameplay point of view. the LSF faction simply won t allow a LPI faction to take over such a major part of "their" work. and since the LPI cannot really do anything else - it is true, they will have nothing to do, other than act as a comedy on behalf of LSF.

about the equipment they can use - i really hate to say it - but again, the police ID allows the use of specific ships, and again, i believe that igiss hasn t just done a copy / paste - but actually payed some thought on that issue. if a police faction restricts itself to use small ships, its perfectly fine. - but if they see the need for something else, its is their business - and not the business of another faction to make the decission for them. ( we have individuals bashing allready - we don t wanne try bashing on minor faciton - that aren t even existing )

edit: while i can write a lot about justifying heavier ships for a police - there has allready been a consent not only to use light ships only - but also to equip them in a very non pvpish way.

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