I have no qualms really, but criminals better be ready to bear consequences. An often nasty, brutish, short and often solitary life in the face of a powerful sovereign Octarchal administration.
consequences i understand, but come on now, magical staffs letting guards freaze sombody from anywhere they want to catch em and throw em in jail
thats seriously just sounding like godmodding to me
its not fair and is the reason crime doesnt even hardly exist...
the devs keep saying they want people to be a variety of things, cook, theif, hero, whatever..but how can they support theft, if they just let gm's godmod their way to locking up criminals...
what crime needs is a jailbreak system. bribing/ drugging guards. sneaking your friend a lockpick to an all out assault on the complex.
i used to run a server in a RPG called never winter nights. i hade a simple jail system that would teleport a player into a cell. but i added safeguards to prevent my fellow admins from abusing it.
each cell had a different lock pick level and there was always a pick hidden in each cell. the level of lockpicking on the door differed so you could send people to more difficult cells based on the severity of the crime. each door had a failsafe script that allowed a tenacious escapee to break out regardless of lock pick level of course the harder the difficulty the more time you had to spend. the hardest cell i had had a failsafe of 1000 attempts which although you could get out of it it would take about 20 minutes of constant attempts.
there were npc guards out side the cells that were programmed to change their level bassed on the cell they were put in and the level of the player so that there was always a chance to defeat the guards and escape.
but at the very least the guards jail ability should be a touch spell and require the guard to actually catch the criminal. as well as guards should be required on threat of banning to accept any duel challange from the criminal if he so chooses to fight.
but to be honest you could just scrap the jail all together and go for the death penalty being executed for a crime would trap you in the death realm for a period of time preventing you from simply respawning