Police

[Ivan]

In real life, criminals fear the police. Reason: Police are more and better equipped, better trained and have a general advantage in most confrontations.

In Disco Police fear criminals. Reason: equipment restriction.

Pick Dublin: Many many pirates are in gunboats. Many dirty freelancers are in Gunboats. You can talk to them... but to what use?

And if you say that LF and HF are enough... no. They don't compete on even terms. Eat a mine at a bad moment and you are gone.

I would love to play a BPA. But not without a VHF, so that - if forced into battle - I can participate in that part of the game on equal terms.

You can't be the minority, with worse equipment, and the responsibility to talk to people who will gladly shoot you after a pre-defined message was fired at you. You need something that can stand the first rain of laser. And to bite back if it has to.

Aw, mate, BPA) members can fly HFs freely (Paladins). There's also SRD, join them. They have at least Challengers, not sure on Templars. We need to discuss that, though.

Yeah, right. Nerf them even more, give them flashlights instead of real guns. Then they meet Loki (Hessian light fighter with a REAL Mini-Razor) and are all like "screw it, I gonna join some unlawful faction, they have cool ships and can kill everybody they don`t like".
Police needs exclusive SHFs. With SNACs. And with extra dedicated CD slots for stopping smugglers.

There's Mjolnir - doesnn't help much. Or Spatial.

What Police Factions need is rights. Something they can do, and only they can do, something that Navy IDed players are incapable of doing with their IDs.

Police can fly Bombers, Police can fly VHFs, and correct me if I'm wrong it's been a long time since I looked at a Police Guard ID, but I believe they are allowed to use Gunboats.

Yeah, rights help well - RFP has a lot of work, thanks to Major's regulations.:PSo that works rather well.

And I think police has SWAT/SRD/SEK for bombers/fighters/SHFs usually.