• Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Would have been way more punk to make those mini encounters “Gang Fights” or something, with the NCPD being just another gang.

      Major disconnect since they make the NCPD a bunch of corrupt assholes that basicly run a protection racket but then you do gigs for them like you’re on Uber Cop.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve said it before, but I think the NCPD subcontractor thing was come up with as just a narrative device to diegetically explain flagging miniature world events/quests in your hud that got implemented and then wasn’t really thought about after that, because there are lots of them where they really don’t make sense to be a police bounty contract. Like there are several flagged encounters that are corporate security forces who just executed one or more people (and you get a payout from the system for killing the licensed security forces who were acting lawfully as far as the hellworld’s system is concerned), in at least one case there’s a gang that was tipped off by the police themselves about a detective’s CI, etc all being folded into that system.