(07-10-2023, 11:23 AM)Shimamori Wrote: Tldr; to spur lawful activity we just need more playerbase and active leadership, like Lemon, to organise the playerbase. With many ex-lawful leaders burnt out or busy iRL, and non existent influx of new blood this is hard to achieve. Maybe, the upcoming patch will bring in some activity boost, or bury the last hopes. Lawful playerbase outside Liberty is basically in limbo waiting.
It more or less never existed en masse - was always on and off...In Gallia Police got deleted altogether and then added as sub-ID under Navy. Did anyone even notice? No, maybe Denis did...nobody uses the /net sub-ID because nobody besides me actually enforces laws in Gallia even though I tried hard to get Gendarmerie going... When we get a sub-ID on [GN] Tag with /net /nodock on gunboats and smaller only like indies (tick dock staff, been months again!) it will only get slightly better, we might get 2-3 people doing the niche patrolling couple times per weak...Which will boost law enforcement by around 1000% but it still will be minuscule.
Law enforcement in general isn't very attractive because there just are not enough lawbreakers outside of liberty outside of people making stuff to shoot you or raid you...which won't be the cup of tea for law-enforcing players who are usually RP oriented - they never were since I play from 2020. BAF has never patrolled and enforced laws/looked for smugglers, did that help BPA? Not at all, last attempt at OF ended up afk filling PoBs - making these restrictions would be dividing a zero and making things worse.
You need to think "gameplay" what can police actually do - @Zentor tested the prisoner transfer thing, but the profit was way too low - all Police IDs totally should have a plugin bonus on an internal prisoner/criminal route within their house that actually makes ore level money and is telegraphed to unlawful with good fences. Again forget Liberty where Sunbucks etc. are a thing and LPI is a corporation - think about BPA/KSP/Rheinland as the only "standard" police houses and how to give them stuff to do, and what type of player you are aiming the activity at (roleplayers, not PvPers)
