Quote:RIGHT 5) Official factions may request that the reputation of a player's ship be changed to hostile with respect to their NPC faction.
Quote:RESPONSIBILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH RIGHT 5
Factions may only do this after they have interacted with the character in role play. Faction leaders should post reputation change requests in the Special Role Play section with a link to the forum evidence.
Example: The LPI could request that a smuggler be made hostile to them but only after conducting some sort of role play around this situation. A role play trial conducted on the forum with the evidence would be a good way to do this. Note that the reputation change may be temporary as the smuggler is free to buy a bribe to fix the reputation.
"Specieal Role Play" request, role play trial in forum...
This should be changed. There needs to be an unbureaucratic way to request/perform FR5.
Regarding the example: the most annoying smugglers try to avoid a RP interaction by quickdocking to sell their illegal goods and undock again to flee from the police. The usual warnings like "you will be added to a criminal database" and "you weren't allowed to dock" won't help much as nobody with exception of official faction members do care. In doubt they just change their name for 2million instead of paying the outstanding fines.
Another example can be found here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?...pic=120694
Do you believe the player of that ship cares? There are huge efforts required to put a FR5 in place and you don't know whether the affected player will even notice. You basically waste your time by rping with someone, that does not care to rp with you if not required to do so.
What should be enough for a FR5: a screenshot of the offense + chatlog. A trial is useless on these indies. Some don't even check the forums. But: if they are suddenly repped hostile towards the faction they offended, they actually do have to care and roleplay. This will also have a positive impact on faction activity, especially for police ones. Their reports will have an effect, thus making their RP worthwhile.
Put simple: Player actions should have consequences in the surrounding rp environment.
This will also improve the game experience.
Shooting a npc faction or ignoring the demands to drop cargo will also make them and their allies to go rage on you.
To the admins, I also have some questions:
1. How many FR5 are actually requested?
2. How difficult is it to adjust the reputation of a player? Is it possible to give every faction leader the possibility to FR5 other players on their own behalf? (do reduce administrative work). If this is not possible, provide a simple template for FR5 to quickly handle them.
