Smuggling Vs Legal trading

[chopper]

Using a Smuggler ID means it is plainly obvious to anyone scanning you what you are. It means lawfuls can attack you weather or not you have hot cargo. Bounty Hunters should be hunting Smugglers wherever they go and hauling them away to prisons in the lawful houses. But they don't even look for them because the way things are now you cant tell who is a smuggler unless they are packing contraband in their hold.

Make Smuggler IDs mandatory if you want to smuggle, then make smuggling runs more profitable.

While I do agree with Yngen that smuggling needs to get more dangerous if we want it to get more profitable, I can't agree with this.
If I am a smuggler with empty cargo, there is no way in hell that someone should kill me.
I mean, it would make smuggling almost impossible.
How to make it more dangerous then? Well, I don't really know.
I know that Pirates ask traders for tax, while lawfuls ask smugglers to drop cargo + pay the fine.
So, it's already harder to smuggle then to trade.

I also agree with Pipsqueak. If I wanted to smuggle Cardamine, I would smuggle with Trader ID and some Liberty corporation tag, and lawful ship.
Then I would trade in Liberty (legal stuff) for some time, just enough so lawfuls remember me.
Then I would switch to Cardi hoping not to be noticed. I would avoid populated areas of course, but at least it would help with lawfuls.
They wouldn't wait for me on every single jump hole/gate.
That is real smuggling. Flying a pirate train and mounting a smuggler ID is just advertising.
And I see no real purpose in that.

Didn't vote.
I don't see a reason for Smuggler ID to exist at all. At least not while it's identical to the Trader ID.
When they get their differences, I'll reconsider it.

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