EVE General Discussion

Ank? Is that you?

Nope. New player.

As if this game wasn't enough of a job? What next in ideas? Mandatory jury duty for those with high sec status? Pift, no.
Also SP loss? "WAT?"

Capsule Police. Join concord. Can no longer work for empires privately. Only concord missions. Earn concord LP not related to incursion. Allows purchase of concord frigs cruisers and battleships that are balanced to empire navy ships. Free and fast location of any player under -5 in .5+ empire. Player concord ships can only be flown with temp skill when under Concord service.
villain perks? Concord players are legal targets to those under -5. Pirate LP in concord player death. Players should be able to side with a pirate corp properly like Sansha. The more crime you commit, the more LP.

A. You can already do this if you really want to? Database tools are in no short supply
1. If you want unlimited kill rights, you could just as soon allow full blown PvP in High Sec. I could see this possibly working in some form IF Concord did not assist player police. Otherwise your just asking for free kills and risk free, imbalanced PvP.
2. This would have to be a double edged sword, ie "pirates" and "criminals" having the ability to destroy financial assets, clone facilities etc, and either way is probably a bad idea.
2a. Why? Seems like a bad idea on the face of it, although i'm being forced to make lots of assumptions about why you even want it.
2b. Just..No. Preventing someone from playing the game via detention would be absolutely no fun for the detainee, and I can't imagine it'd be terribly enjoyable for the player police either.
3. The carebear is strong in you, once again on an equal playing field, these criminals would need reliable ways to permanently reduce the SP of other players, and perhaps kidnap them and hold them for ransom deep within nullsec, but I imagine that suddenly sounds like a terrible idea to you :)
4. Suicide ganking is technically already illegal in High Sec, otherwise it'd probably just be called ganking, since it'd be legal, and concord wouldn't come kill you? I'm guessing you are proposing it simply be prevented altogether via some silly game mechanic, at which point what need is there for police.

It sounds as if you are trying to implement a mechanic which would prevent pirates, suicide gankers, and pvpers in general from engaging others in non-consensual pvp, while at the same time, ironically championing a system in which you could engage them in not only non-consensual but also entirely risk and consequence free PvP.

Additionally you are requesting the ability to permanently remove some of their SP and prevent them from playing the game altogether for undefined periods of time, amongst other punitive and poorly thought out measures.

tl;dr No.

How can you imprison a capsuleer? All they need to do is kill themselves and they have escaped jail.

Indeed this is a case of "overthinking".

Make a police tractor beam that locks a pod once a player ejects. The pods are stored in stasis aboard prison ships for x number of days or hourse where the characters SP is drained or locked.

That's actually just a stealthy way of saying "lets prevent suicide ganking and further reduce risk in High Sec", and therefore not terribly interesting at all. It would generate places where pirates would have impossible challenges getting into highsec. (Read, as in you've just implemented yet another game mechanic to prevent pvp in high sec).

Because a capsuleer police force mechanic wont be horribly abused at all, right?

That's what nullsec is for. Pirates can kill pirates if they want. If you want to greif players who are really playing the game and not being little anarchist trolls, risk is required.



Not prevent. I am advocating for an increased cost to doing so. Make crime risky! That's why it's called crime.