Improving your career choice as a police officer and getting people involved.

[nOmnomnOm]

Here is a proposition I have been thinking about for a while now.

Currently as I see it, the police ID and career path looks something like this:

-you go in game and you can turn on the net to catch criminals
-you find a smuggler or other person that breaks the law somehow
-you demad they drop what they are doing and pay a fine or die (or some variant)
-occasionally you will offer to arrest them and escort them to a prison (something i have seen a handful of times only)
-the pilot generally refuses and you fight
-if you win, done deal ... (usually)
-if you loose or he escapes... below:
-winning or loosing, you still can post on forums to the guy to demand more payment or other consequences (pain in the butt if the guilty party already lost)
-you go get a drink at your wateringhole

And I mean that is pretty much it. No more meat. The usual forum stuff is just fines and threatening to FR5 and stuff issued out which is bland.

Perhaps i am missing a few things but that is the gist of it in general.
in my opinion.

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Proposal:

Each offical police faction creates a prison watering hole where the arrested is taken. They can RP their sentence in real time and then either get some deal/bribe/bail to get out or they can escape using people like the xenos, rogues, or lane hackers. Also official.
The pilots arrested also get set up into a criminal record database and you get there the list of offences you committed and the total bounty on you etc etc.

The trick is that you need to give the player arrested a chance to get out of prison and not sit there for years. inRP or out of RP. That would suck for the RPer and the player would rather not get arrested as often. There needs to be many ways to get out of jail. The RPer should also get the opportunity to RP in the jail with other prisoners. Would be interesting RP and characters meeting together that would not usually meet. Police members would also ofc be allowed to regulate the interactions etc.

There are a lot of possibilities to this RP idea which can even include visits and stuff like that. Each prison by a faction could have it's different atmosphere to it as well. A liberty prison would exploit the characters to work force for instance.

Additionally, other systems could be community service and stuff like that, but for the sake of discussion, i have just included prisons/jails.


Yes?/No?
I'd be interested in seeing the discussion here.
The aim is to have more interaction after the initial law-breaker person has been caught. It would be more cool rather than : 'Give me 15 million or else you are FR5!!!'

[sindroms]

Dunno, flying my LPI I end up being a psued-Angel as new players seem to listen to players green to them and with police in their IFF

Anyway, I made a thread about this some time ago - you saw it yourself, where I described that this sort of interaction is not limited to what you described in the first part of your post. There is much more to that ID than that, really.

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[nOmnomnOm]

Dunno, flying my LPI I end up being a psued-Angel as new players seem to listen to players green to them and with police in their IFF

Anyway, I made a thread about this some time ago - you saw it yourself, where I described that this sort of interaction is not limited to what you described in the first part of your post. There is much more to that ID than that, really.

whatever. the point is the proposal mentioned
Thoughts?

[Neonzumi]

-snip-

whatever.

I like your attitude.

[nOmnomnOm]

the point is the proposal mentioned
Thoughts?

[Lythrilux]

Not a bad idea. It's all up to the Police Factions if they want to do it though.

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[nOmnomnOm]

The inherent idea behind the Police ID is to, unlike their Naval and SpecForces ID counterparts, is to focus on their interactions with other lawful players such as traders - performing scans, informing them of problems and other.

In Liberty in particular, the LPI ID also acts as a psuedo-Angel ID

usually mute traders stop when you ask them to

It means that you are free NOT to engage things that you feel are above your paycheck.

And the fun thing is - most people know that and it seems as though unlawful players are much more willing to trade words - even if they are just insults, with an LPI rather than an LN. They are also usually not the first to attack.

TLAGSNET

/nodock

I have taken the liberty of pretty much quoting all your most important points, spazzy.
There is nothing really i left out besides interacting with lawfuls. (and taking 5 mins to do a single scan)

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[Mercarryn]

@nOmnomnOm
I would not say that your post reflects all the police rp. RFP| for example also handles forums work regarding registration of POBS and cargo license.
Which means that this also leads to more interaction with other players, but this depends on the interest of the other side.

Moreover, you can also start and get yourself bribed from time to time. LPI and RFP are according lore the best for this because of economic reasons in their houses.
I have let myself get bribed a few times on my RFP| Oberst. Ask @Doria or @Pavel . I am sure they remember a few situations like that.

To the topic: To be honest, I am not really fond of such a forum-based prison. It would have to be too restrictive for both sides.

[nOmnomnOm]

And do you think that cargo licensing and POB licensing is exciting RP?
No. people just do it so they wont get shot at. That's all that it is. There is no joy in filling out an application.

Furthermore the bribery thing can backfire on the player EASILY if the police player decides to do so. There is no prolonged RP as well to this situation.

All these things are short things and the first 2 shouldnt even be considered heavy RP.

This proposal is.

Furthermore it looks like only the leaders get to do any of the PoB licensing RP and forum RP most of the time.

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[Lythrilux]

You're being dangerously brazen and blanketing regarding other people's roleplay.

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