-[Cartel]- The Cartel

[Leo]

Now with player bases, the smaller unlawful factions would also want to have their own bases. That is where The Syndicate can invest in and build contracts and contacts. For that reason I applaud your neutral/business-style approach on the unlawful blogs of Sirius however you should realize that this also limits your cargo of your ships to 3.5k and puts you into a serious disadvantage against the 5k cargo supply traders.

We all gotta play the "game" somehow. I'm willing to suffer any disadvantage that I have to in order to have more fun. Being tied to any faction is a loss but so is remaining a Freelancer. For the most part, I only use 500 unit freighters anyway, only when I'm really hurting for credits will I use anything over 1000 units.

I'm not a fan of the player bases. They seem like more of a money and time sync than anything. We will, of course, move cargo for player factions who wish to re-supply their bases, but in building our own, that probably won't happen. We will just remain a "loose" faction based unofficially out of Barrier Gate in Coronado.

About metagamers:

You can make it a bit more difficult for them by putting the tag at the end of the member's ingame name. Also, is the tag gonna stay -[SC]-?

Tag will remain -[SC]- Syndicate is how I explained it. Changing the tag on all my freighters would probably cost me 10 million credits (yes I have that many freighters/transports so I can easily relocate to another trader if another route gets too "hot"...different RP characters, of course). I could put it at the end, but I'm a fan of saying who we are, and THEN our name. Just looks better IMHO. Possibly because that's what I've been used to over the years. I suppose we all have to deal with metagamers every once and a while, just the nature of the beast.

Also, AFAIK, there is no "dominant" smuggling faction. I intend to play that role.;)

Thanks, Toaster, for all the questions and critiques. Don't mistake my words as dismissing your suggestions, just trying to explain my thought processes.

~Leo

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