Traders?

[Skoorb]

I have found the cat and mouse game with liberty police to be a lot of fun. Like in real life, if the police catch me doing something wrong i get busted, lose money, and pay a big fine. In the future those same cops look out for me and i am forced to do legal trade until the heat blows over. While doing legal trade i have to figure out how to avoid the pirates or expect to pay them off and hit in my profits. A smuggler id would be a great punishment for getting caught smuggling. For a period of time that is. I know it would be hard to enforce or make happen, but... what smuggler in their right mind would fly around with a smuggler sign tattooed on their ship. Trade in this game is of 2 kinds. If you trade legal items, you have to fend off the pirates. If you do illegal trade you have to fend off the cops. As it should be. A policeman driving down the road would have to search the car and find contraband before knowing whether or not he is a criminal. Not because he has a sign on the back of his car that says,"I carry illegal goods." An organization supported by drug dealers would not kill or steal from the transportaion of their goods that is their bread and butter.

One of the most fun parts of this game for me is flying through manhatten with a cargo full of smuggled goods all nervous about getting caught trying to think of ways to outsmart the police. I think the police have fun chasing down traders and checking to see if they are smugglers.

When i carry legal goods i experience the exact same thing with the pirates, trying to avoid or outsmart them. When they catch me and i have no other choice i do what i have to.


I think the fun of this server is the roleplay. Igiss and the rest of the developers have done an amazing job creating a world where you can be a smuggler and run from the cops, or you can be a regular trader and run from the pirates. You can be a pirate scourge of the tradelanes, or a policemen or bounty hunter trying to enforce order. One thing........ the players have to agree to this roleplay to keep the fun alive. I would not have fun running from the cops in new york if the cops did not play their role as well. Legal trade would be incredibly boring if there weren't pirates covering the most lucritive routes. In my opinion, trying to find reasons to kill people through rules interpretations detract from what makes this game soo much fun, plus i hope the developers do not take it personally when conflict over game mechanics arise.

To show your appreciation for the developers, roleplay, have fun. Play your part in this world, as the outcast supporting drugs or the lsf fighting the drug trade. The more you play your part in this world and the less you try to manipulate the rules, the more fun I have at least.