Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[St.Denis]

As someone who led the Official BPA) for 4-5 years, this is my take on why I basically gave up playing the Police.

When I started, it was for the RP.

My PvP skills are/were severely lacking, as were those of most of the other Members. The 'bad' guys were generally better, but their 'egos' allowed them to not seek the' blues' all the time and would run away, hurling abuse etc.

If smugglers got away, when being chased, they knew they weren't going to end up at the wrong end of an FR5. Sometimes we caught them and sometimes they escaped. It was fun having the 'cat and mouse' encounters. So they would come back.

I enjoyed the occasional PvP with raids from the Corsairs. I even tried arresting the whole Corsair Fleet in Cambridge and offered them a holiday home at Newgate.

Over time the RP became less and less and it became where people were more interested in the 'blues'. Sometimes we would log in for Patrols and within a few minutes we were being hunted and then dead.

You can, unless you are a masochist, only have this happen for so long before you start wondering why you bother logging and then go find something else to do instead.

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