Removal of Raid rule 14.5

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It's not unrealistic.
If I wanted to break in to the SWAT floor, I would want to call out SWAT so I could sneak in easier.
People do it in real life

Hm, good idea. Lets draw attention to ourselves so we can sneak into a building.

The 'SWAT floor' in real life would still have government employees working there, even when a full dispatch would be in force. If anything, the officers and workers would be even more attentive as there is a situation at hand. If the attacking force was to move in, there would be a gun battle against the attackers giving the SWAT team enough time to retreat back to the HQ and flank them. This would result in the attacking force being squashed into fire from two directions and would consequently lead to a defeat. So, this time without the blatant sarcasm, bad idea.

In relation to the op, the whole point of being a criminal is to be inconspicuous - you obviously wouldn't want the law enforcers to have information on your operation, would you? You wouldn't parade outside of your HQ armed to the teeth with lead propellers in the faces of the government*, because it simply compromises your objective to make a profit out of circumventing the laws of the land. You would want to remain as hidden and covert as possible, which is why this rule is completely justified and prudent.

I do accept there have been exceptions in real life, however this is either down to criminal stupidity or extreme mastermind planning, both of which are an outlier on the normal spectrum. If you consider either of these to be relevant to your roleplay, contact and administrator and they could potentially loosen the rule considering your circumstance and roleplay you were planning on doing.

As for your claim of this being a 'semi-serious- roleplay server, yes, you are correct. However as stated above in this post, I believe the exclusion of this rule moves us more towards the boundary of non-serious roleplay, as the actions perceived have no justification to the cause of the organisation or any fundamental roleplay value that would enhance the server's objective, unless you actually do.

*Providing the government at the time didn't legalise small handguns/private ownership of firearms.