State of roleplay is poor.
People don't want storylines they don't control. Most people aren't roleplaying a character. Leaders don't hold people to account effectively because everyone's in their friendship group.
Gameplay for the younger generation - most of which whom play here - is very do this, get small reward, repeat. Dopamine buzz, let's go.
Games aren't built for resilience unless you're a fan of souls-like and even then, all they're doing there is prolonging that feeling so you feel like you got *more* gameplay out of it.
RPUK is abit of a grinder, sure. The issue is that people feel entitled to progress, which inherently is not how roleplay should work and leads to poor experiences. This is true on all sides.
It's a conversation had many times over but unless the mentality changes that it's okay to concede, nothing will change. If you want a realistic UK police service, which seemed to be the initial prerogative, they can't leave till a situation is resolved. They have a script in order to enact powers else they are held up by the courts. In the UK police that fuck up don't just lose their jobs or a case like the states they risk prison themselves.
If you don't want a realistic police service or you want something in between that's really difficult to maintain quality. These are whitelisted faction members and this is not their job. In fact, and I know I'll take a bit of flack for this myself but the officers that *are* also job irl tend to have the most complaints issued against them for unfair roleplay or power gaming.
The UK legal system is a powerful tool to prevent crime. It does it's job. Something like 90% of criminals report that the force used against them by police in the UK was excessive. That's the system.
Equally, IRL most gang members do not stab the police, or shoot them. They immediately surrender because there's little to no gain. In the states they have a 3 strike rule in many states. 3 felonies and you're life'd. Escape is valuable, wanted, and in their minds justifiable. It never is in the UK. Not really. Carrying a knife? A few months, maybe a year. Stabbing a police officer? Probably getting 12. It just doesn't make sense.
So, the question really is, what do you want? Because it's certainly not realism. In which case, we should be scrapping any and all police-crim court stuff. Then who holds us to account? Ourselves? You don't trust us.
never thought i would hear this coming from you, but tbh you are kinda right thats why most things escalate so quickly.