Improving your career choice as a police officer and getting people involved.

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Here is a proposition I have been thinking about for a while now.

Currently as I see it, the police ID and career path looks something like this:

-you go in game and you can turn on the net to catch criminals
-you find a smuggler or other person that breaks the law somehow
-you demad they drop what they are doing and pay a fine or die (or some variant)
-occasionally you will offer to arrest them and escort them to a prison (something i have seen a handful of times only)
-the pilot generally refuses and you fight
-if you win, done deal ... (usually)
-if you loose or he escapes... below:
-winning or loosing, you still can post on forums to the guy to demand more payment or other consequences (pain in the butt if the guilty party already lost)
-you go get a drink at your wateringhole

And I mean that is pretty much it. No more meat. The usual forum stuff is just fines and threatening to FR5 and stuff issued out which is bland.

Perhaps i am missing a few things but that is the gist of it in general.
in my opinion.

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Proposal:

Each offical police faction creates a prison watering hole where the arrested is taken. They can RP their sentence in real time and then either get some deal/bribe/bail to get out or they can escape using people like the xenos, rogues, or lane hackers. Also official.
The pilots arrested also get set up into a criminal record database and you get there the list of offences you committed and the total bounty on you etc etc.

The trick is that you need to give the player arrested a chance to get out of prison and not sit there for years. inRP or out of RP. That would suck for the RPer and the player would rather not get arrested as often. There needs to be many ways to get out of jail. The RPer should also get the opportunity to RP in the jail with other prisoners. Would be interesting RP and characters meeting together that would not usually meet. Police members would also ofc be allowed to regulate the interactions etc.

There are a lot of possibilities to this RP idea which can even include visits and stuff like that. Each prison by a faction could have it's different atmosphere to it as well. A liberty prison would exploit the characters to work force for instance.

Additionally, other systems could be community service and stuff like that, but for the sake of discussion, i have just included prisons/jails.


Yes?/No?
I'd be interested in seeing the discussion here.
The aim is to have more interaction after the initial law-breaker person has been caught. It would be more cool rather than : 'Give me 15 million or else you are FR5!!!'