I have one question reggarding (G7.2) Fake hostages - Willing participants must not be used as hostages (e.g. your character's group/gang members, friends).
Does this rule prevents me from lying to the police saying i am a hostage when I wasn't? - This wasn't the case on a previously situation, just want some clarification.
I think you can lie, why wouldn't you? That would be the plan, but if you're getting some kind of share from the job or working with the robbers this is in breach of the rules and you could face a ban.This rule needs some working I think, just the wording, perhaps clarification.
The NVL rule removes the 'willful' part but if you're not considerate to the hostage it ends bad for you. If you take a hostage; make sure they have no other place to be (they're not gonna OOC that they gotta go to work in 15 mins), perhaps offer to let them hide any illegal goods in a car, explain to them what is going to happen. Most of us know this.. And most when this happens, a stockholm syndrome kind of deal starts to take place. In a city of criminals, we all hate the police.
I think, with being such a tight community, everyone being loosley connected, it's easy for police to get paranoid. But I've seen cops saying things like 'fake hostage' and it breaks RP. Our world is supposed to be HUGE, but it isn't, hence why we add locals for immersions sake.
I've been playing on NoPixel while I wait for some RPUK changes. The word 'friend' is too loosley defined. I was taken hostage, and during the ordeal I managed to crack an agreement to buy their dirty money and some other things. These guys rob banks everyday, and when they see me it 'you know the deal. You getting in or what?' and we RP in a way that is a little.. goofy, but at least nobody is gonna OOC mald, F8 quit etc. I've seen these guys let hostages go, and it's a huge risk.
I think one solution.. Situations requiring hostages should be very rare. Perhaps change the words willing and friend. Cause if this 'friend' thing is the case, folks like
@FatherAugustuswill miss out on some fun RP. He'll only ever be taken hostage by shitlords. He isn't Jimmys
friend but we are friends because we have so many mutual friends, we loosley know each other. It isn't an issue to drive down to trucking and grab someone but if there's a constant need for hostages then you'll see bully behaviour, awkward RP scenarios as most truckers have aavoidant or hostile personalities (I'm very much generalizing)