Tazers are the bane of my existence. For so long as there has been the tazer plugin, and there has been the jailmod plugin, there has been a distinctly downward spiral on behalf of Cops and Robbers alike.

Today, when trying out a little Diner Robbery Roleplay, I took a hostage, and barricaded myself inside. The Cops played it smart, cornering me in, until I dropped the hostage and made for the front exit, pointing a gun at a cop. Seeing escape was pointless, I aimed, and fired; ignoring impending death or bodily injury, the Officer did NOT return fire. Nay, he approached until he was about ten feet away, and promptly deployed his tazer on an armed suspect.

I'm not questioning the general roleplaying competency of the Police Department, because there's a lot of good Cops around. But really; tazers shouldn't be used on suspects with guns. Nothing good can come from that; the way I see it, is it's a good way to end a deadlocked foot-pursuit, because there's no really good way to roleplay that. But on an armed suspect? It's just one step above rush-cuffing, to me.

Your thoughts, peoples of Nukesilo?

I get the concept, but it's just sort of lame. It means the only defense is to kill Cops before they can get within ten feet of you, if you're a criminal, or you lose. Is that the kind of roleplaying we want to instill? ((And I shot once, but my aim is terrible. It went past you. May not have heard it over the BZAAAAAP.))

For example rushing into the 7-11 mashing your /tazer key while being pelted with Ruger bullets would not be an appropriate use of the tazer.

You also need to remember that real life robbers value their lives and won't try to fu their way out of a robbery when it's surrounded by 50 trillion cops. While I hate people who taze while the suspect is pointing a weapon at them or trying to type/RP, without a tazer most chases would never end as in games no one ever gets tired. I think the range is fine, what needs to be done is some reeducation as to when it is acceptable to use said tazer.

For example rushing into the 7-11 mashing your /tazer key while being pelted with Ruger bullets would not be an appropriate use of the tazer.

The reason some cops do this is that if you're being pelted by bullets, by the time you start shooting you'll be dead before you can kill the other guy. But a tazer is immediate and makes them drop their gun, so that way you don't die.

That is true but the argument really isn't so much the range any more, it's how they are used.

Wake you just provided a very good argument against tazers. If you're being shot repeatedly, I don't know about you but in real life I'd go try and get behind something, not continue forward while attempting to draw my non-lethal tazer and fire. Part of the problem with tazers is that they are instant, so you can just mash the button without aiming and hope you connect. Maybe if some lag was coded in to allow for actually drawing the weapon (or the taser mod with the actual gun you could see that some servers had like last year would probably help.

In most situations where the use of a tazer is dictated, the cop is in the middle of a room with the suspect hiding behind a 7/11 counter or a wall. There is no cover for him to get to without being shot.

Whoever shoots the first in TS, wins.

Either way, the point remains that the tazers are being misused. That's something nearly everybody can agree on.

But I love to do tazer-bys from my car (Only to my friends though =p)

But I love to do tazer-bys from my car (Only to my friends though =p)