Stealing Sams questions to post ideas-
What are the authorities doing about these people that are murdering and looting?
Nemisis Cop/Agent with Imperial resources to back him and a tendency to find the players yet again at the worst possible moment (you finally defeat the pirates at their base and begin to loot when you hear a Lambda shuttle with familiar sinister markings come in for a landing).
What are the families of these people doing?
Hiring bounty hunters of course. Oh you didn't know that girl was the niece of the President of CyberCorp?
What about the bystanders that see these things occur?
Witnesses that provide clues to the bounty hunters or police above, allowing the PCs to more easily be tracked down. That or mob attack while the PCs are trying to loot. Massacre the mob? Options above just got kicked up a level.
If you've got a problem with them murdering everything and looting it like it was a Zelda game, throw in just a tad more realism and consequence to their actions.
Agreed. There should be dire circumstances. You could keep dialing it up from fines and being hounded to temporary confinement while losing hard earned gains. If that isn't enough the worst offending PC in the suffers long term imprisonment forcing him to roll up another character or play a weak sidekick (previous NPC) until you think he's learned his lesson. If they still haven't figured it out by then, the worst offender suffers permanent character death through lethal injection while sleeping by the nurse sister of one of his innocent victims.
Edited by Sturn