KaylaSpace wrote:Jarek_Knight wrote:
With that in mind, I can see a lot of players leaning even more toward roleplaying your a-okay textbook officer, in order to not risk their position within these unique factions. For better or worse, take your pick.
To be fair people in criminal, or non-LEO factions roleplay the gangster or mafiosa in a textbook manner in order not to risk CK's and be capable of progressing. That's not a unique matter and I really doubt its the biggest issue with Police RP'ers being textbook good-guy cops.
It's bad on either side of the law, roleplaying a character with no flaws isn't difficult and naturally much more beneficial than creating a character with edges and flaws. What I'm trying to say is, that instead of roleplaying a character that walks a small margin between right or wrong, I'd feel more inclined to do everything by the book. Not for IC reasons, but for OOC reasons. Does that make sense?
The problem, to me, arises when I have to not only defend my actions IC'ly, but also OOC'ly on a constant basis over things that should be handled IC'ly. Such as a search, that in the opinion of the suspect, isn't founded on probable cause.
So what I'm looking at is OOC complaints to me, which turn into IC complaints, which upon failing, then turn into OOC complaints to an admin. And that could lead to OOC intervention, depending on the judgement of one out of several admins, with different points of view.
and both probable cause and suspicious are very loose concepts.
Any actions coming from IA, I couldn't care less about, as long as all evidence is acquired IC'ly. Whatever happens, happens regarding that.
What you mentioned above is an extreme example of non-roleplay, would be much easier dealt with on the forums, with screenshots as proof imo. I haven't witnessed any of that sort of behavior myself, but if I had, I'd be enraged regardless of what I'm roleplaying as.