Liberty Police, Inc. Feedback

[Laura C.]

I want to ask why you guys recently started FR5ing smugglers even in situations when it´s their first documented violation and on top of that is based on third party evidence without any lawful even having interaction with some of these players ingame (and I am not mentioning incredibly short times given to response on fining notice in some cases).

This attitude is wrong and detrimental. You are killing source of activity not only for yourself, but for all police factions and lawfuls in general. Do you really want to kill smuggling as ingame activity? Considering that chasing smugglers is one of the main things that makes police factions appealing, it is really worrying. FR5 should be last resort for serious troublemakers, not your first choice.

As a police faction player myself and former long-term RFP| leader, I seriously want to ask you to reconsider this policy.

LPI has been doing this for years, FR5ing at the first offence of smugglers. Why is it suddenly a problem? If somebody is caught bringing in extremely large amounts of drugs and illegal shiny rocks, you would expect the cops to be like "ok you're a bad guy you can't come here anymore". And it's a more effective tactic than years of countless "pay this fine" threads that everybody ignores

note: i do not represent the views or policies of lpi or their leadership, it's my personal opinion and is not meant to be an official lpi response

I thought (and hoped) that this attitude was left in the past when server had 150+ stable population and police factions could "afford" to be harsh. RFP is not using FR5s for smugglers for years and same applies for BPA as far as I noticed. LPI has the luxury of most active house because it is starting location, but those who play in less populated houses already reached point when they -have to- think about their attitude against their activity sources.

So like Achille said, while inRP the point of police is to stop all criminal activity including smuggling, ooRPly our point is exactly opposite - to keep it alive and coming, actually even to promote it. Otherwise you sooner or later face situation when you spend hours ingame on the patrols and you encounter almost no smugglers. Sooner or later people gets bored and stop playing

To put is simple - if you FR5 every smuggler after they are first caught, what will be player´s reaction? Especially when they are not even caught by lawfuls, but just silently scanned and screenshoted by some passing ship? Most of them will chose one of these:

a) I need to avoid as many players as possible (and in case of being FR5 also avoid stationary battleships and docking rings weaponry near lanes which can bite badly). Lets fly only through jumpholes and under/above plane so no one will see me.
Result for lawfuls: less interactions and less chases.

b) Smuggling sucks. Let´s rather do ore trading, it makes more money anyway.
Result for lawfuls: less interactions and less chases.

How is this good solution? You should not force -players- to have "I better do lawful trading" mindset.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.