Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[Stewgar]

Playing police not only needs to be fun to RP but it also needs to be profitable somehow. Since this community has turned more PVP centric, we've seen the disappearance of police factions and roleplay in general. Here are some ideas that can help:

1. Convertable commodities. I've been testing with somebody about having commodities convert depending on the ID that the ship has mounted. Cardamine in the hands of a Junker would convert to "Contraband" or "Evidence" for Police ID. Evidence commodity could be sold at specific police bases for profit. This would promote police play in a PVP/profit standpoint.

2. Promote patrols. Stashing low probability NPCs that carry high profitable contraband but are also difficult to kill (would require multiple fighters/bombers) would promote factions and precinct roleplay.

3. Disable dock camping. Whether this is a rule or something imbeded into hook, police camping at the finish point of a smuggling run means that smugglers will just dock up at Rochester and wait for the police to log off. Some of the best fun I've had involved pursuits - we can manufacture that with some nerfing around buy/sell points.

Foods for thought!

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