Faction jurisdiction

[Nadir]

voted yes... need more control of system...

@Korrd, sorry about the mix-up with the traders and navy...
also wanted to ask...

yesterday we scanned a few traders carrying contraband, and as such were marked as smugglers. they refused to drop their cargo, did not stop to be scanned, and did not pay fine...

can we fire after our request were not fulfiled?

can we open fire after they undock not carrying contraband?

IMHO: absolutely. Take a screenshot of a scan as collaboration in case things get ugly but House police and military have a duty equal to NPC factions to enforce the law, scan for contraband and attack ship that refuse to drop their illegal cargo. If they flee before you can scan, they win: no evidence, no charge. If the goods get sold on a base you could consider demanding offending traders pay an infringement fine rather than killing them after the fact. Here the screenshots of the scan would be useful to prove they were acting illegally.

This is all getting way to complex. Fairly obvious which systems house security factions can police. Pretty
much everywhere they have bases. They are the four major military factions within the FL universe.
The rest really just have ZoIs around respective bases, and SoIs for those lucky enough to own their own
systems. The three exceptions are The Outcasts, the Corsairs and the Order, all have their own system or
two, in vanilla.
If we want this to run as true roleplay, the militaries must have the right to police home ... The rest are just
going to argue over a few asteroid fields, ice crystals and one or two planets. Its a way of life ...
This is not a big enough situation to empire build, if you want to do that, go play Eve ... This is all about trying
to integrate within the existing parameters, and factions, and about using a bit of common sense ...
Pretty damn obvious who lives where ... If you want to get in the crap, just go hang out in the wrong places.

Hoodlum

I agree. At least in my case, with the KNF, our duties and areas where we do what we do (whatever that is) is defined by existing conditions in the game and are obvious.

(BTW The only exception where I've wondered what the hell was going on was when a pilot demanded my KNF ship leave a Kusari system after I lost a battle and respawned in the same system. If I'm not interfering with them - being dead - nowhere near them, out of sensor and visual range, it's weird to have someone making demands of me in my character's home space.)

I don't want to see a complex, unnatural and restrictive set of rules brought into play:- the rules should emerge from the game and scenario if we're role playing..

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