Liberty forcing Junker fr5's

[JunkerTown]

I completely agree that we do not need admin intervention for this issue.
Including the obvious ineffective system of Fr5's.
Since these reports require admin approval and are more often than not ignored filing them is tiresome.
Statements like this I find problematic..

You guys (yes Congress, talking to you) need to get it through your heads that this is a roleplaying server, and that there are roleplaying consequences for roleplaying actions. Damn right Liberty and any other lawfuls are going to ask you to FR5 outlaws docking on your bases, or fine you for it, or just shoot you outright.

Ok so in terms of roleplay..
Let's say a criminal is running from the police and along the way he ducks into a friends house he knows that lives in that neighborhood.
The friend is at work and not affiliated with this crime in any way but knows the suspect.
Is the homeowner therefore considered an accessory or accomplice subject to a fine, prosecution or to be shot on sight?

If this could always be handled thru roleplay I'm sure the OP wouldn't be asking for admin support.
The problem is the requests/demands to us are usually to make the offender stop docking at our station completely.
Which of course brings us back to the issue of this being a game mechanic problem.
Should there be a quick list of folks we could ban like on our pob's then this would be far less of an issue.
While I have zero issue with RP consequences the current system as it stands is too easy to abuse.
An unknown indy who may or may not have RP or OORP hate towards Junkers, Congress or the Marauders can easily use a place like Rochester to cause problems.
With ship creation being very easy to do and only taking a matter of minutes to change names, tags, ID's, ships and so forth recreating the issue is as easy as rinse and repeat.
Currently the only real way to keep this from being abused is to focus on the offender and not the official factions.
I realize its easier to attack the resident groups residing at the station since they're far more entrenched into the game.
An indy ship with no accountability, limited and sometimes no character creation/RP with an unknown name that is easily changed is far harder to deal with.
Also..

It's a shame, really, because I see the Junkers as having a lot of potential as a really smooth niche faction who would calmly wave something like this off going "sure sure, we'll take care of it.." and then offer some sort of service as compensation for the lawfuls to turn a blind eye. (Maybe try supplying some POBs? You don't seem to have any trouble maintaining a healthy five or so in your own little chunk of Sirius). And then use the money made from those services to hire mercs to shoot the lawfuls.

Amusing considering we in fact did things like this such as repairing, maintaining and updating PoBs for the LPI, DSE and many others.
More often than not we do say things like 'we'll take care of it' and go after the perpetrator but as mentioned before is easier said than done.
Your also correct we do have 5 or more Pob's to supply keeps us rather busy too.

As for hiring mercs we do that quite often too.


Perhaps allowing official Junker factions and/or some indy Junkers to enforce the 'no dock' command in game for Rochester would allow for more direct control.

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