Adding Pirate IFF'd Satellites to the Darkside of (Capital) Planets

[Laura C.]

Though I still don´t understand how there can be fear of something what is not happening for years

Because people don't smuggle because of that?or atleast try to avoid other players which is even worst in a multiplayer server..

People fortunately still smuggle, contrary to some beliefs. I still smuggle on my smugglers, and we still keep catching smugglers on RFP patrols. It´s kind of sad to say it, but in this case I´m almost glad there are players who play without reading forums regularly or at all. Because in my opinion, the mentioned fear does not stem from any real actions (because as we even agreed, smuggling FR5s do not exist currently), but real source is actually group of players which constantly spread this fear by saying something along the lines "smuggling is dead because of FR5s" or "better to not smuggle, lawfuls will FR5 for it" repeatedly on the forums here and there, despite they always fail to prove these FR5s exist when asked, and then the discussion usually continue with the current spirit of "okay, maybe there are no FR5s, but people are afraid of them anyway". So in the end it creates infinite circle of "smugglers are afraid of FR5s because they are afraid of FR5s".

I wonder what the hell do I have to do to stop these false rumours. I´m trying my best to prove this is myth (and a detrimental one), but I´m getting kind of tired of repeating myself over and over again. Currently when I see words "smuggling FR5s" anywhere, my first reaction is like

Though I´m not sure if it´s good idea to give /nodock to indies for its huge abuse potential.

those who will abuse it will be sanctioned...

It´s not that easy. /nodock is strong tool which can almost stop you from playing in the whole house, because you will stay locked from all lawful and corporate bases if the spoiled cop keeps following you. Processing sanctions sometimes take quite some time if admins are busy, so in the meantime the culprit can freely abuse it and annoy lot of players. And that can be especially harmful for example in Liberty, where lot of new players is. Not to mention that these players often don´t know about forums and definitely don´t know how to file a report. Thus the abuser can avoid sanction for quite some time.

Also what should giving /nodock to indies actually solve? Like I said, they can´t FR5 you.

Not to mention, it would be kind of weird to give /nodock to indies when even some official factions which are interested to have it for their bases are still waiting to get it.

And this one can be easily fixed by one bribe.

not so sure about that...i guess it depends on case by case(or admin and his choice )

I´m very sure about that. In the times before /nodock I reported few smugglers which loved to dock on RFP bases to get away from me. Always when I met them shortly after sanction was issued, they were happily flying and docking in Rheinland again without any troubles, and when I asked admin how is it possible, he said fixing rep through bribe is okay in this case. Because that´s the difference between rep sanction and FR5. The rep sanction is reversible one time sanction, FR5 is definitive change of reputation as consequence of serious bad behaviour.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.