[Event] An Exchange of Pleasantries + GRP ID Conversion (Completed)

[Emperor Tekagi]

You're sadly wrong. What LPI has is TLAGSNET. It is already hard enough to avoid that (trips take much more time, as you have to avoid both gates and lanes), as using the scan-command is already killing most of the serious-level smuggling. It's pretty easy: Using the playerlist to get information you want to use inRP is pretty much a no-go and the RP elite only takes screenshots and logs. That is pretty much the consent of the current playerbase. Using metagame-sensors is not only cheap, but also pretty nonsensical. You suddenly have information of a name, but you don't know what type of ship it is and you don't know the cargo. In my particular situation, I got contacted via system chat the moment I left the badlands with the LPI on the other end of the system.

This calls for a statement from the officials.

TLAGSNET is a scanning module which was worked into Trade Lane and Gate technology, it's a simple sensor giving basic information about vessels using said things. The issue with this here, gameplay-wise, is that it is at the edge of metagaming. It depends on the user though.

For us in LPI- it's common to take the information TLAGSNET can deliver as hints, considering our own technology to often malfunction (mind you lanes get attacked quite often, it would be no surprise for malfunctions here and there), and thus investigate based on said hints. Meaning we go check things ourselves, using normal scanners to go sure if what TLAGSNET said was correct or not.
Just going to accuse someone of a crime based only on TLAGSNET data is considered invalid and not tolerated by me ooRPly as well. How indies use it.. well, individual cases.