Contraband: Will It Ever Change?

[SpaceTime]

what brings nothing to multiplayer environment and it´s not much different from simple powertrading. Or I will create interaction by giving the police chance to hunt me and catch me by at least partially using gates/lanes, but in this case I will be bad smuggler and get criminal record pretty fast.

You see, when you harshly punish smugglers and factions when they are caught, you're not actually providing them an incentive to interact with you. If the fines were more moderate and the responsibilities weren't mitigated to the entire faction so quickly, I'm sure people would be more willing to try running contraband through the lanes. Or at least stop putting much effort in avoiding you.

Afterall smuggling is a RP courtesy; it's nowhere as profitable as lawful trading. So calling it "powertrading" is kind of inaccurate.

Not to mention that smugglers often use battleship scanners and thus I have no chance to see him before he will see me in open space.

Advanced Deep Scanner has now the same detection range with the Battleship one.