Not sure if this has ever been brought up or suggested, but has anyone considered the possibility of a feature being added to actually be able to join the faction police forces, such as the Federal Security Service or Alliance Police Force, and adding in a police scanner for the range of your sensors? I'm aware that the closest thing to that is ranking up in the Federal Navy and Imperial Navy, basically making you a member of the military. I've talked about this with a few friends before, and in theory it seems like an interesting idea, at least for the scanner anyways. For example, adding a new scanner in the shops called something like "Security Scanner" and it could be engineered (or not) like the normal scanners and have the same range (or further) than the regular scanner, except, as the authority ships see, whenever a crime is committed between two ships, they should change to two (or three or four or however many) blue blips (or whatever different color) to show that you must scan those ships to figure out who is the criminal and who to protect. I'd imagine there would be many many things to work out if an actual way to join the police was added to the game, such as what would happen if a player police officer commits a crime, gains a fine, participates in illegal activities like smuggling, or having a way to go on and off duty. As I've said, maybe this has been discussed, maybe not, but still something worth bringing up and something to think about.
Security Scanners and the Ability to Officially Join the System Authority
- Thread starter Zeroes IV
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Been brought up many, many times however.
It would be more helpful in heavy instances, more so in hazres. There's been countless times where my scanner is filled with orange dots and someone will broadcast something like "My ship can't hold out anymore! Help!" and I can't locate where it's coming from, whether it's too many blips, or the laser fire isn't appearing or is blocked by other ships/asteroids.