Traders?

[Athenian]

I agree. I can identify with the excitement of running into manhattan with a hold full of artifacts!

The RP aspect of this game and server is the best reasons to get playing properly. I think the purpose of the smuggler id was, if you like, a way of ensuring that people stuck to RP ing. There has to be some sense of coherence to a character. Otherwise you end up with the situation like I have encountered on other servers, where it degenerates into a free for all and players decked out with all the best upgrades and weapons can physically and finanically dominate the game, trading in every black market item they choose. Back in the day of roleplaying games, it was called dungeon-bashing, and it could destroy what was otherwise an imaginative and fulfilling way to pass the time.

I think the smuggler id is, if you like, permission for a player to have a character that will trade contraband. It should only alert lawful characters to a suspicion that the character is involved in something nefarious and wouldn't constitute reason enough in itself to warrant a fine. That really would only be the case where some one is caught red-handed.

There are equally lucrative legal routes. The trader id covers these. Think of it as character alignment in role-playing games. It allows players to develop a character, while ensuring that the character doesn't stray beyond the realms of acceptable behaviour. I mean, how can you justify a trader being involved in the shipment of toys one day, and heroin the next? In real-life it doesn't work that way.

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