I had a very good taste about RP in action in this server last night. I was following the proceedings in Magellan while couple of LH train robbers where in action. Mind that I was observing only with level 14 status. What was nice that they still gave me the "Keep walking. Nothing to see here. Ain't your business pal" -act to a underlevel player like me. Thanks to LH to livening things up.
So what's the quickest way to see someones level (I only found the chat window sort by system)? Any quicker than that?
And should I take my time to reports some guys with screenies to back up some quite unusual equipment/ship/tag choices of level 39 guy? Normally I wouldn't bother but the guy was wrecking a lot of peoples fun above Manhattan by firing/ramming/harassing people even after LSF tried to calm him down. The chat this guy was making wasn't by the book either. After all this perp was "police" tagged and probably not his first time doing stuff like that.
Ok, to RP issues. What you make of bribing the player police after they have nailed me with contraband? There are crooked ones in the real world, so in that sense it would be ok. I've been thinking that by it's nature such transaction needs to be secret. But if you do a such thing in private chat that leaves the public out of the benefit of some amusing RP. On the other hand if you do it in public then everybody knows that you are a dirty cop! And it surely will be seen by some as piracy/taxing.
It's a very thin line to walk on. The best approach I can think of is that only good RPers should even attempt anything like this with private chat taking screenies for your sake. Also it opens up intriguing possibilities of owning a cop in a precint who could possibly inform if the coast is clear to make the run for it. Or even lure the police away. Clandestine meetings at remote corners to pay the bribes :)
It's not the greed of money but the unique RP experience. This kind of valid RP would very hard to pull off without it being blatant rule breaking. And I'm sure getting caught will result in fired out of the squad in disgrace.
