Negative consequences of moving best premium scrap selling points to Gallia

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Imagine some dev would for whatever reason change the price p-scrap on best selling points to 1 000 credits so people will lose interest to trade it. Then, when you would ask to fix it, people would say "you can use your perk to fix it, no?" Would you feel you should spend your perk (and create RP which is necessary to get perk approved) on something just because someone else broke it? That is what Lyth means.

Fair point.

So someone logged and caught a smuggler and that means there is no problem? No offense, but how much time you spend in Rheinland, watching the traffic? Like I said, I spent recently several hours doing that on untagged char, that´s where my data are from.

As nemo states too for smugglers the RFP got a good rep on hitting hard on smugglers....
maybe they just dont want to be found
but yes.. i see what you say

I guess you are pointing at JM screens. I can only repeat what I told to Garrett:

Not only JM does it FYI

Believe or not, collecting money itself is not any motivation. And regarding fines - they are set by laws. The highest one in Rheinland which can be issued for individual on spot for full train of contraband is 6 million (and I actually even consider to propose to slightly lowerit).

fair is fair...

If you spend ten hours ingame and meet one smuggler (it was still extreme result, I still hope I was just very unlucky on this one), does this mean that magically it is far more better when you are not there? My current experience and other members of RFP is based on what we saw ingame. If we will log more, we will of course see more smugglers, but the point is ratio. Meeting one smuggler for two hours patrolling is bad result. Sure, I can log for 20 hours and meet ten smugglers, but that means that more than 18 hours from it there will be no smuggler to catch and this is not interesting for players.

is all you do as an RFP catching smugglers? Im actually curious

This is not about "smart smugglers" which don´t want to be caught. Those can´t be caught (unless I will go on hard metagaming and wait for you at exit of jumphole, though "smart" smuggler will not even enter system if he will see RFP tagged player inside). If someone is willing rather take longer route out of lanes and out of plane, I can hardly stop him. But there were always some who rather risked it through lanes and gates. And these are those we miss now.

So you are saying that you miss smugglers that are taking risks and get caught by you.
1) Before that there were more until more sever punishments came along. Smugglers actually, and even I too, liked to get caught sometimes.
2) Smugglers are here to entertain you? Are there only existence to get caught??

Those mythical FR5s again? I asked you and Fluffy to bring me examples of FR5s for smuggling last time we got to this, and didn´t get any (except for one case of probable miscommunication with FL-ER). And you know when we talked on skype after AFC member got caught doing illegal things in Rheinland, I stressed that I don´t even think about FR5 for AFC as whole.

Not mythical, actually. You yourself posted such... if i remember... (and i can look it up) but the better example is that here....
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=133233

And also the IND incident where they got caught and the navy posted a fine of like 500 mills or whatever "or else" ...

No offense, but my feeling is that smugglers expect that cop MUST be willing to take bribe when its offered or must believe every story/excuse smuggler try. Who play honest cop which not always believe smuggler´s story gets label "not willing to RP". Just for the record, I let several smugglers go even despite Carsten is incorruptible cop. They just had to be smart.

no... we just dont want to get FR5ed.
really.
I keep saying this.
I wish i could do chases and catches more often but I am scared , as speaking about my faction, that when i do give police faction more activity then my own faction will be FR5ed to all houses.

I would love to have something like that. But you really believe that devs will let it happen? Cardi and Artifacts are now buffed to level where they provide just little lesser profit per unit than ores on highest profit sellpoint. Do you think devs will let any cargo from NPC stations have better profit than player mineable cargo?

What? no? What??? they sell for 5000

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