Negative consequences of moving best premium scrap selling points to Gallia

[Laura C.]

Why would any smugglers want to interact with police? Isn't smuggling about delivering illegal cargo, possibly avoiding lawfuls in the process because those can be expected to try and intercept illegal cargo, thus bad for business?

Oh, wait, I know. Because of the playerbase shrinking bit by bit we are looking for more ways to force interactions in order to keep up the same amount and with that the same amount of enjoyment, slowly giving less and less crap about whether it makes sense inRP or not, totally ignoring that perhaps that may also be an important factor in the enjoyment of certain people.

Yeah, good luck fitting an activity all about avoiding contact with lawfuls in a scheme like this. When do we want to force pirates letting traders go in order not to discourage people from trading with bad experiences? How far do we really want to go at this?

There were always two types of smugglers and two concepts which both have their merrits but are in eternal conflict. Good noninteractive smuggler vs. bad interactive smuggler.

First one will hardly be caught, because he does what smuggler inRP should - do everything to not be caught. He fly away from lanes and gates above/under plane and such. So only places where he risk being caught is destination of his cargo and maybe jumpholes (but those are safe too if cops don´t metagame and don´t sit there). This smuggler is perfect in his RP role, but creates minimum interaction and fun for others.

Second one is bad smuggler, he uses lanes and gates and gives cops chance to catch him. It doesn´t fit smuggler RP role, but he creates interation for lawfuls (and others generally), provides fun of chase thrill and such.

There is no right answer which role is good and which is bad. Just personal opinions.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.