Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[Karlotta]

Hi guys. You are probably aware than there are currently no dedicated police official factions in any house. Moreover, even unofficially, only a fraction of active players in any house seem to be playing police characters. Frankly, I don't remember the last time I saw a BPA or a KSP ship during my forays into Bretonia and Kusari, and Rheinland only has a few dedicated players for its unofficial police faction (KPR).

If we assume that this is a problem, what should be the solution?
I wanted to open a discussion about what could be the minimal amount of modification which may lead to more players focusing on police roleplay.

My own solution is as follows: change house military id lines from "Can enforce laws within House Space" to "Can attack ships breaking laws within House Space."
The idea behind this is simple: the military is a blunt tool with little training about civilian disputes and smuggling regulations. Their solution starts and ends with the application of force. So if you want more options when dealing with criminals (e.g. fines), and the ability to make inrp arrests, you fly on police ids. If anything too big comes calling, you ping the military for help and disengage until you have more support.

What do y'all think?

Typical disco staff failure in thinking.

"Nerf other IDs, surely what will raise X ID's activity"

No.

That would have worked if there wer too many players on other IDs, as there were 12 years ago.

The problem today is not that there are not enough police players.

It's that there are not enough players.

In order to raise player number, you need to make the game more fun across the board.

Part of that (and there is much more to it) is dropping stupid restrictions on every ID that make every ID less fun, thinking by making every ID more crappy to benefit other IDs that will somehow make every ID better. No.

Nobody today thinks "jeze this navy gameplay is just too much fun, if it was less fun I'd play police maybe" and then 20 more people will play police and 10 less navy.

Today people are like "why even bother logging anything because X crappy thing is sure to happen and Y fun thing surely wont happen".

We'll probably talk about this again in 3 years if there is still is a server, because even if staff will start doing stuff barely in the right direction 5 years too late, they still wont engage with it 1 day after most people would have understood the reasoning behind it.

ps: oh look people think staff is conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy yada yada yada. no. nobody says you are made of conspiracy. you are made of stupid.

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