Alaska Opinion Poll

[sovereign]

I dont think its OORP, i think its Risky. But for the profit they stand to make, people will do risky things.

You're right that smugglers should be attacked and detroyed when they enter the system. But provided there are no military patrols at the jumphole, you can avoid military patrols in Alaska, as i said the most dangerous points are the jump hole and gate. There are also plenty of other things in that system that can distract a navies attention.. the order.. nomads...
Nomads by the way are also a risk for the smugglers - but a risk they take when they go into many omicrons as well.
Changing the NPC's to guards would up the risk to smugglers, but if the money is worth it, they will do it.

If they realistically get the codes (at least not hostile to Hackers, if nothing else, but green to either Hackers or Order would be preferable) then you are right, no matter how risky something is some people will try it. In an ideal world, this would be fine- those that RPd actually having the codes should be allowed to take that risk. Unfortunately, we live in a world of money grubbers who rarely care for RP on their traders/smugglers. They don't give a damn, if they target it, F3, and they dock, then as far as they care they have the codes. We need to deal with these idiots in a way that leaves the former, nicer group (like yourself, your previous posts indicate a respectable expectation of what should happen) still able to RP how they choose, so long as it isn't ridiculous or stupid. That's the issue here, and one suggestion that seems to be good (by popular consensus) is to alter the route so it is RPable and profitable, but not profitable enough to generate whoring. Not too hard to do, doesn't require a playerwipe, and as far as we can tell gives everyone what they want most.

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