Police Issues
VorTechnix opened this issue · comments
Observed behaviour
- Firing a weapon or torpedo at pirate or into empty space when a police ship is in your vicinity (not sure what the exact range is) makes you get the piracy charge.
- Police almost never come to your aid when you are attacked by pirates
- When police do come to your aid they don't shoot pirates (at least that I saw)
Expected behaviour
- Hitting a police or civilian ship with a weapon or torpedo while police are in the vicinity should be the only way to trigger a piracy charge.
- Police should fire on pirates in their vicinity
You should probably be able to appeal a piracy charge if there was a pirate in range when you received the charge.
Steps to reproduce
Enter a system that has police at the hyperspace arrival area. Fire main weapons or torpedoes at pirate (or even into empty space).
Updated post to better reflect the scope of the problems.
Ref #5202 also deals with the "Police apathy" problem.
Hitting a police or civilian ship with a weapon or torpedo while police are in the vicinity should be the only way to trigger a piracy charge
I don't think this is the best solution, as it would remove the "unlawful weapon discharge" crime charge, which should still be there, especially near cities/spacestations. Instead it can be removed when there is a pirate nearby.
I don't think this is the best solution, as it would remove the "unlawful weapon discharge" crime charge, which should still be there, especially near cities/spacestations. Instead it can be removed when there is a pirate nearby.
I agree that near cities and space stations "unlawful weapon discharge" should still be a thing but you should be able to do whatever you want in interplanetary space as long as you don't hit the wrong thing while the police are in range.
I agree that near cities and space stations "unlawful weapon discharge" should still be a thing but you should be able to do whatever you want in interplanetary space as long as you don't hit the wrong thing while the police are in range.
Of course.
But what if the pirate is near a city/space station? I think in that case if you're shooting in the direction of the pirate you shouldn't get the piracy charge.