Negative consequences of moving best premium scrap selling points to Gallia

[Laura C.]

I remember implementing the Fromage and Sorted Artifacts buff, two different attempts at trying to generate RFP activity. I can't recall about the latter, but regards the Fromage smuggling, I do recall it generating many smugglers, but not much RFP activity at all. There was Impy in his JM ship, taking ss of the illegal goods and posting it in a Comm thread to you guys, but very little to no in game activity on the part of RFP. I seem to recall similar results with Sorted Artifacts too.

How would another buff be any differrent this time, Laura?

Just clarification - I don´t propose buff, I propose return of change which didn´t bring any benefits (at least I never heard about any and so far nobody mentioned them here either), but caused negative effects on some factions.

I definitely disagree with sorted artifacts effect - it was actually reason why we (or me at least) didn´t notice something is wrong with cardamine smuggling. It was definitely great smuggling activity source, there were usually several smugglers practically every time you logged for patrol (well, later some of them started metagame and go around through open space flying through Dresden and Omega-11, which was hard to face without metagaming too, but that´s issue for another thread).

Regarding BMM/cheese buff, it is hard for me to recall (except for disputes about Impy´s screenshots and such), but I wouldn´t say there wasn´t much activity. Though I´m not sure how you evaluate RFP activity. It was always small faction and now with playerbase shrinking, it is getting even smaller. So currently when we are active, that means we fill activity requirements without need to call people to log in last few days of the month. We will hardly ever have several days of activity unless someone really enthusiastic with enough free trade (like I used to be back in the day) join. Problem is that smuggling is one of the main reasons why people join RFP. If there will be little smuggling, there won´t be enough interested people and faction will die (like many others this year). I´m trying to make other changes of course, but I feel this can help us and that´s why I started this debate.

Regarding Impy/JM and screenshot sending - it is issue I considered several times, but so far didn´t come to any reasonable solution which will work and won´t look silly. Like, should I ignore it? But then, I should ignore all screenshots sent to RFP, otherwise people will call we are biased. Is it okay for official lawful factions to ignore everything we were not present at? Because we can´t be everywhere.

I´m all listening for proposals if you have any...

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.