Critique to House Police and military forces

[SimonBlack]

I was flying around as an indie for some time now and I've noticed a thing or two how interactions between traders and house forces work out in usual cases. At first I wanted to post in BAF feedback thread, but soon I noticed that this trend repeats itself in both Kusari and Rheinland. So there you go, instead posting in BAF, BPA, RM, RFP, KNF, KSP feedback forums I will voice my constructive criticism here.

In no way I am saying that you are doing a bad job, quite the opposite actually. I love interacting with all of these factions, but there's always room for improvement. Please take this as feedback and a push to improve yourselves.

Flying as Freelancer I am always dieing to get into interactions with the house forces, especially the police, patrols in House space. The problem is - as a (mostly) lawful independent freelancer with legal cargo, I often get ignored. It is very hard to get any attention from, say BAF, unless you are a pirate or a smuggler and I am always dieing to talk to them about the trends of the universe.

I am rather lawful, sure, but that doesn't mean you have to leave me alone. I do get ignored, because I am not that very interesting to police and it hurts inside so bad:PI try to shout out my intentions in system chat too. Every time I get in contact range with a lawful pilot I introduce myself in group chat. Such as in the example:

-This is Freelancer "Humpback" Freighter Adolf Lehner.
-I am carrying Consumer Goods from Planet New Berlin.
-I am heading to Leipzig Station in Dresden system.
-Requesting klearance. Over.

What I got from some guys was:

-I didn't ask;
-Move on; (one of the fairer answers)
-Why are you telling me this?; --and of course my whole time favourite:
*silence*

Now, guys, I know you scan me all the time! If you wouldn't you wouldn't get close and drop out of cruise engines for a second to check my cargo, but once you do, a lot of them simply fly away. Well sometimes I ask them in OOC to stop by and RP with me a bit.

Please invest more time into the common folk, even if it won't usually end in pvp or catching a smuggler, we can always discuss politics and share our fictional views.

Here are some preset messages I had when I was in LPI:

-when a trader reaches your scanner range-
1. This is Liberty Police patrol Paul Dennis.
2. Unidentified vessel, cut your engines and stand down for inspection.

-get close, fire a cruise disruptor if he doesn't stop-

3. Your papers are in order. You may proceed.
-that's when you talk about where your cargo is from and where are you going-
You can ask him what nationality he is, what is it like working for Ageira, did he pass Independent Worlds safely, talk about recent news.

-So what do you think about current situation in Stuttgart?
or
-What do you think should be done about gaijin in Shikoku?

I'm not asking you stop and RP with me for an hour, but a cargo scan done not under radar but in local chat and with some RP would do wonders. Have a small chit-chat after you scan a trader about weather and let him go.

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Character background summaries:
Red Hessians Major Matthias Schwarz
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