Diminishing legal favor for criminals & accomplices?

[ArgentRhapsody]

One thing I think would be nice to see in-game would be a semi-permanent consequence for raiders and criminals in that you must put in much more effort to punish others for crimes when you yourself commit crimes. Sort of like even if someone can't find them and summon them or stock them, they can bring the evidence to a courthouse of sorts to be recorded into the legal system as a permanent demerit against them until they make reparations to the proper parties for their crimes. It could even act as an invisible Law & Lore delevelling, and make it much more expensive for them to buy their way out of the stocks, put someone in the stocks, and upkeep their claim.

Another thing could be that other characters on the same account as a criminal could "inherit" a certain amount of the guilt, since they are associated in some way with that character. And also, perhaps buying someone else out of the stocks and then having more crimes recorded against them will cause the character who bought them out to fall under suspicion as well?

it could be a way for even those who can't go out and kill the offender to get revenge in some form.

[Procne]

Do you know about trial by combat and using evidence to put player in stockades?

[ArgentRhapsody]

Do you know about trial by combat and using evidence to put player in stockades?

Yes, but that is not an option for a lot of players, as people will stay logged on to avoid stocks, using tobacco to counter the rather weak effects of madness, and a lot of people simply don't have the means or combat skills to perform a trial by combat.

I'm suggesting a more subtle way to make a criminal face consequences for those who can't make them pay in such extreme ways. Or for those who simply don't want to go that route.

it also would make it harder for criminals to get revenge through the legal system against other people who commit crimes against them, eventually making vigilantism the only option for them if they continue to commit crimes and have them recorded against them, maybe even eventually making anything short of summoning the person at their real homestead stone or catching them in the wilderness ineffective if they go far enough with their crime record. Sort of like the kind of shunning that's done to witches, but of a different nature.

[sMartins]

"bringing the evidence to a courthouse...."

+1

[Taipion]

Due to the alt nature of Salem, this would do nothing.

[Dallane]

dumb

[matan002]

Nice idea. But unfortunantely wouldnt fit with salem as it is