So we've been chatting in the RFP Skype chat, and somebody brought up the phrase when we were requesting a Gunship. It was something like "You don't see Police in RL driving tanks."
This got me thinking, and then I realised something. Let's say that systems are cities. New York is New York, New Berlin is Berlin, Stuttgart is Stuttgart, etc. So here's a question for you: How many criminals do you see in RL driving tanks? Driving them through cities, demanding money from people? You don't see any, because even as the plan to get a tank into a city is being created by criminals, the Military are brought in.
That's my first point. It would be a hell of a lot more plausible to see the Police driving tanks through cities like New York than criminals, so maybe this should be thought about and the number of criminal gunboats in house space reduced.
My next point is the Military presence in these systems/cities. In cities like New York and London, how many Military patrols do you see? Not like parades honouring them, like them actually "on the beat" looking for criminals? Not many. But from the number of Military patrols in the houses of Sirius, and the presence of their bases, I'd think that every house was a Military Dictatorship.
So this also got me thinking. I know that changing the number of NPCs wouldn't be a very good idea (there are still the pirates who decide to charge at Manhattan, so we need battleship patrols to stop them) but what about restricting the patrols of Military players in the core systems.
Think about it. Why are Police factions so unpopular compared to their Military counterparts? Because they have the same ZoI and are thus constantly fighting over the control of that ZoI. Not exactly the same, because the Police one is sort of encased in a larger Military one. So if the Police factions control the core systems and the Military control the border systems and are occasionally called in by the Police for assistance when needed against larger unlawful threats (and I mean large) then they both have their own ZoIs are so the number of players in each can be balanced. Or maybe even a larger number going for Police factions, who knows.
But I know that nothing will be changed. I just wanted to put the idea out for people to think about. Have a nice day, and enjoy your Military Dictatorships.
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