Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[Shimamori]

Police IDs are already very well equipped to manage embargos, smugglers and interdiction compared to Navy IDs, purely because of TLAGSNET. The restriction of nodock to OFs is of course unfortunate, but if you want to spent time enforcing House laws, Police IDs are already far superior to an equivalent ship with a Navy ID.

Interestingly, this thinking was sort of the main reason I made the thread. I don't really understand why more people aren't playing police, since a number of people do enjoy this type of RP, and the police id is good for it on paper. And as long as people log enough and have some solid info, getting officialdom for nodock isn't out of the question. Maybe people are just sleeping on it?

Because it is boring. Look at Couden's reports chasing people 500k away from the nearest object. That is one of a typical chase encounter. Police RP is also rather mundane and stale. Ofc, as jammi said, I am speaking for myself and maybe I just got tired of Disco altogether. But in my 3+ years of playing on police ID the number of enjoyable encounters enabled by police ID per se would probably be 2 or 3. Greet traders. Explain laws. Shoot red. Much fun. Casual banter was never my preferred roleplay, hence why I did not stick to police RP and moved on to something a bit different. Maybe, there are people enjoying this kind of gameplay/rp - then all power to them.

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