RP nitpick of the day

[BaconSoda]

Hurrah, I think...?

Pirates mouthing off to police? That I can understand, what gets my goat is traders, some zoners, some (indie) corp, insulting and ignoring the police forces. Makes no sense to me if you're a trader, and have routes going through house space, why get on the wrong side of the local bobbies? Makes no sense to me at all.

Back when I was enforcing passenger licensing, out of ~10/12 traders, I had 3 pay. I eventually had to enlist help from the BAF to get the job done. Not right for (apparently) lawful traders to flout the law.

But yeah, pirates/terrorists/bad folks who insult the bobbies, no hassles with.

Like Jovial said, pirates, smugglers, terrorists, yes, that makes total and complete sense. Having just played through Singleplayer, traders, no, it simply makes none. The Police can do any number of mean things to you just because. And why is that? People respected the Police. If the Police said "Kensington Shipping Platform, this man's docking rights have been revoked." Kensington Shipping Platform would probably agree with the Police, not let the guy dock. But, the problem has already been outlined by Hawkings:

The problem of people not listening to the police is because police have no power. No, really, they don't. They can go from "talk to the guy" to "blow him up!" and nothing in between. You can't deny docking rights, you can't arrest the ship captain when he's on the ground, you can't restrict his right to buy/sell commodities, nothing. And since death is so cheap in this game, the police are pretty much out of luck unless they're dealing with a cooperative RPer, which is quite rare.

Unless someone really wants to RP, they don't really have to. They can just quickdock. Frankly, I hate quickdocking. I would really like to remove it from the mod. But, that is another story.

This is another pair of reasons why the "average joe" never listens:

http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?ti..._7_Turrets
http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shields

You know how much damage a vanilla transport turret did maximum? 81 damage to hull, 40 to shield. That is less than a Lavablade Mk I. It's no wonder corporations and civilians feared the Police. Nowadays, unless you're disrupting lanes to check for contraband, good luck getting anyone to listen to anything with your Light Fighter. Oh, and lets remember that even if you do catch someone away from a base, 4 guns are enough to keep a transport shield down, right? You can easily apprehend criminals that way.

And this kind of disadvantage and thievery of my RP experience was what I signed up for when I joined the Police, right? It's just the way it is, right? Yeah, right....

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.