Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I like it.

Facpo should honestly only be screwing with people in Faction Warfare, if you ask me.

Sec status yes.
Low Standings however... No. If you are low standings with an NPC Faction they should attack you in their space.

No. Until digital internet passwort will become mandatory and Eve account can be tighted to one, making the player itself reponsible for his actions, not some disposable character, this won't work.

No, I'm not advocating it, just saying that ideas like "Lets give some important and profitably exploitable NPC function to players" will work as intended only if we could somehow reliably discern different characters of one player from characters of others - what won't happen in forseeable future.

And by disposability I meant the ease of swaping characters in Eve. So such system would be exploited as hell by small group of wicked-minded individuals having enough alts at their hands (which is not so hard nowdays, when people earn billions and you can sell old toon and buy another on character market legally). So it will not be a "police force with a couple of corrupted cops" like OP, probably, imagined, more like "bunch of thugs with authority".

Yes, indeed, I got it wrong, should get some sleep, probably.
In any case, this won't work as intended too. Almost no new content will be generated this way as highsec dwellers almost never will attack fearfull flagged lowsec shark showed up in their peacefull bay - just out of caution, being afraide that this is some kind of trap. And most of them are fitted for PvE anyway, they won't fly to station to fetch some PvP fit (if they even have such) and catch you, they'll just proceed whith their life and ignore, mostly. So this proposal is simply "remove this annoying police, we don't want to face the cosequences of our actions anymore"

Do you really think there will be many ppl in Jita who will pull this? Each time I'm undocking in dodixie I see this classical scam fight on undock, and most of other see and understand it too and they know perfectly that you should know better than attacking some seemingly easy target conviniently laying still in vicinity. Untill you'll get really unlucky and some FW gang will spot you, you will be pretty safe here. Well, at least after first several incidents in which some gullible highsec dwellers will be blown up to shreds.

Well, probably Jita's SG will be threat too, but anyway, what lowsec outlaw will fly to jita full of SG with something more expensive than shuttle and empty clone if this mechanics will be in place, anyway?

That's what the Faction Navy is for.

YES to all. This is just about Faction Police chasing negative sec status players.

CONCORD mechanics would remain exactly the same.

Faction Navy mechanics would remain exactly the same (attacking enemy militiamen and players with low faction standings).

This could be quite interesting indeed.

But I think eliminating faction police is actually a necessary prerequisite. Just look at highsec today: not many pirates around, except suicide gankers that 'run-hit-and-die' without giving anybody a real chance to nab them. Also, since they plan on dying to CONCORD anyway, they almost never fly anything but cheap ships with empty pods.

To make 'policing' a viable profession, you need lots of targets. With faction police, pirates just mostly avoid highsec altogether because it's too much of a hassle. Today, to kill pirates you need to go to lowsec and ultimately become a pirate yourself!

There wouldn't be a 'player police force' game mechanic. Anybody could shoot a pirate/criminal, simple as that.

Sure, people could and probably would make player-created 'police forces', but then it would simply be up to them to manage recruitment, just like any player corp/alliance.