Promoting police roleplay - separating Police and Military identity?

[Enko]

To be honest in my own experience with smugglers/intercepting smugglers is that they tend to err more on the RP side of things. If profit were all they cared about, they'd silent trade in a 5ker like the vast majority of multi-billionaires who just want to see number go up. Pirates outside of Liberty are a rarity though, I'll give you that.

It depends on who you get, about 1/3 of my interactions are good but there are a lot of people who are not sporting either to varying degrees.

What I find is a lot of it comes down to that people have gotten used to some house space being essentially dead, Bretonia has been just largely ignored as being active and as a result smugglers and embargo runners just casually take the tradelanes and mark themselves as targets in the longrun, and so a lot of people get caught because they will stroll carelessly through the space until they reach the wall.

I think it's this shock that has caused some problems, but moreover almost every single interaction said (at first) they didn't understand what they were doing is wrong. While this is more of an IC issue where they should pay attention to that, I think it also is the cause towards a lot of backlash.

As someone who led the Official BPA) for 4-5 years, this is my take on why I basically gave up playing the Police.
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This does resonate quite a lot with what is going on today as well. You get good times and bad times, and not everyone can endure or even want to try to endure the idea of being mobbed on when logging in. The core issue is that balance has to happen on both sides of the coin, same way that many factions pull out of fights, allow duels or 2v2s to happen even if they technically won.

When I first joined the server and expressed a return to Bretonia, there were a few people saying its a bit quiet now and I had people from RPA| saying they'd love to get more activity going in and see more BAF| BPA etc to shoot at. Issue is that this sort of thing has to be balanced on both ends, and this isn't something RPA| or any single faction can necessarily control either because RPA or any other criminal faction can't help it if a wave of indies or another crime/enemy faction come in to try and swarm Police ships into oblivion because they tried to enforce the laws.

On the other side of the cloin, Police and Navy factions shouldn't do the same and swarm any groups trying to produce activity in turn, though I understand this isn't considered an issue atleast in Bretonia. But, it's up to everyone if they want a house to be active and things to do to ensure that nothing is overdone. Though the problem is as illustrated before, this isn't something you can really easily stop happening either.

Fundementally the issue is that, the core interactions of Police that do not involve combat involve some kind of financial burden and when credits get stung a lot of people get quite petty. It's always been an age old problem in the past that both 'sides' have been guilty of, where Criminals get swarmed for piracy in house space and House Police/Navy get swarmed for enforcing their laws. This happened in 2010 era and it still happens now, just that these days it's a lot easier for a few individuals to sway this balance because instead of there being 5 police/navy or a couple groups of 2-3 criminals doing piracy, it's now more like 1-3 people on each side unless people manage to call in people.

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