Embargoes

[BaconSoda]

I think Athenian hit one of the problems on the head. The police of navy need to be able to think outside their guns, as well as the traders. Instead of making a blanket embargo, looking into faction affiliation, origin of the character, and the like plays a big role. Most of the people who enforce embargoes don't take this into account, and it is very detrimental.

The second problem was brought up by Derkylos. At the present, there is no incentive to actually play Police and RP the encounters. Instead, most people go "Oh, I'll get my big-bad Challenger and get those smugglers good, then go get the Kusari!" No offense to the BAF, that is, it's just what is happening. This is very apparent in Bretonia, as the BAF has an upwards of 70 members (Says rumors), while the BPA has 9 or so.

To counter Del's point, I would say that the current embargos have almost zero effect due the fact that no one actually heeds them, as they're enforced so rarely as to be non-existant.

Which is the third problem. We actually need to enforce the embargo for the above two things to occur...

EDIT: And I might follow suit with my Gateway, Vero...

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