Konii
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That sounded more like a vent/rant but honestly it makes more sense now. Cheers.One of the issues when dealing with the police in game is that it is a HUGE faction. Correct me if I am wrong but on the PNC there are some 400 odd officers, not all of which are full time or active but that's a shit tonne of members, right? You can have a max of 30 cops on one server.. so 400/30=13.3• chance of roleplaying The with the same cop per restart (not accounting for the very obvious variables such as play time per day of each officer/typical schedule of being online etc etc) so let's take it down to a nice even 10% mark, fair?[ my maths may be wrong and these are just me being clinical ]
so with each police interaction having the chance of roleplaying with ATLEAST one officer on two consecutive occasions over multiple restarts is 10%, or even them being online at the same time. That basically means there is an extremely low chance of encountering the same officer, continuing a flowing roleplay story ("it's a hunting rifle, DSGT ShitForBrains [KV987] said yesterday I'm allowed it!" *"well he's not here and I haven't heard anything about it so it is NOT a hunting rifle it's a lethal weapon so I'll be taking that"*) allbeit a few other officers MIGHT go along with it but I mean c'mon, you get that fresh PC KnowItAll [PY666] who's the dogs bollocks showing off to his SGT and his PCSO (people he needs to win their hearts) and he won't budge.. Or you meet INS DigBick [KV333] and he lets you walk all over him. It's a lucky draw.
IF the police was SMALLER like your average gang (20 or so members?) it would probably allow for a much easier flowing roleplay story and people could get away with things or not be able to get away with things in a more fluent way. BUT that's not the case and it's impractical AF. So you get situations where the story doesn't match the puzzle pieces and you give a chicken the horses head..
Morale of the story? Don't try and use your last encounter with an officer in your current one, especially if they aren't the same officers as they probably won't even bother to verify it and deny it (I was a cop for a long time, it is very rare they will try and confirm it as the other cop is more than likely offline [EDIT]. Not to mention he/she might not even have a clue if it is actually another cop (they don't all know each other!)).
Make your story fresh, spice it up, add a bit of comedy and try not to be a total dick to the officer because he or she will come down hard...(unless you're being a dick in a comical way and their colleague takes over because hey will more than likely be loving it and let you off).
Its not the police's fault, it's just how this cookie crumbles..