Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[Traxit]

The intrinsic issue comes with military IDs having access to the biggest ships. Additionally, Sirius has been warring with itself and Gallia ever since the Colony Wars back in 801. It would most likely be beneficial to have a story stance dictate the notion that house militaries are going to be gathering dust for the near future. Of course with certain unawfuls having access to warships that won't entirely be true. Bottom-line, forget inter-house wars = military factions are now out of fashion.

What do Police have in return...? /tlagsnet. Lol.

OP's suggestion may do more harm than good. You are turning all of the militaries into pvp tools, you incentivise military IDs to log less because they know their character can only shoot. Not that was any different in the first place...

Police ID needs more gimmicks, one such gimmick already exists in the form of /nodock. But the main counterpoint is how easy it would be to abuse, and the main counterargument is relying on our staff being vigilant, which is full of skepticism in the first place.

So more ideas need to pour out. One idea off the top of my head is ID-restricting interceptor engines for freighters and light fighters.
One monumental wacky idea is giving them yet-another flhook command that lets them disable Gate/Lane in some form, whether its forcefully kicking ships out of lane or disabling the entire lane. Jumpgates are rather self-explanatory, just block docking for 30 seconds. But again, we rely on the good faith of players and the vigilance of staff to make sure everything runs smoothly.

Whatever ideas pour through, I think it's important we do not nerf others, in order to buff others, to re-iterate - Buff the weak IDs to the strong.
Even if it means adding cruisers and above to police ID which we could balance by restricting all of the flhook powers to gunboats and below.

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