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

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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.

In all my time playing as LPI, both in 2013 and now that I lead the faction, I've only run into three people who actually wanted to be arrested. One was actually on LN, one never spoke to me or my son ever again after we arrested him, and one got killed by stray missiles after he surrendered.

Arrest RP is interesting, but it's so incredibly complicated to actually conduct that nobody actually wants to do it, especially if their beautiful characters are slaving away for actual, real years in a station like Huntsville that they can't really escape from, since it A) is a space station, B) is staffed by tons of LPI officers, C) is really close to a Navy battleship, D) has a bunch of bounty hunters on it to prevent escapes, and E) isolates prisoners.

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