4.88.6 (4.88 Final) - Fall Update: Bretonia and Liberty Cleanup

[Shaggy]

The problem is there is not a lot of smugglers those days and will be even less now. I'd expect development team to make smuggling more attractive, because currently it's all about the lwaful ore trading. Ore profits and smuggling not being good is the exact problems of less work for lawfuls in Kusari/Bretonia, not the Baffin "highway". Weird, but okay /shrug.

That is where you are wrong, there are alot of smugglers around and that has been proven with the latest Tau event which was Unlikely Friends. We found outself over 20 different smugglers within it self. The Baffin Highway was just a very fast and quick route for people to smuggler and with Barrier Gate station within 15k of both Cortez JH and Baffin JH it was almost impossible to stop smugglers without them docking on BGS. I like this update as it gives a chance for alot more RP for people within Coronado and also Bretonian Lawful and Kusari Lawful having to fly through those spaces now. Good job to the dev team on this one.

And? Your words only prove my words. Of course there were, because the event commodity was almost x2 times more profitable than regular smuggling (and were close to the ore profits, but you did not have to mine and was not depend on PoBs). People came to trade this event and will be gone after it. You know well, that most of those ships were FL Serenities, who normally doing something else (trading ore) and smuggling. Many people got Serenity just for this event, because you was able to buy off full ship price in one run.

You might be right here but that does not change the fact Coronado was updated for a better coronado giving it the Manchester route also and not only that placing the Coronado jh in the "inactive" JH in the further distance. Not only this but the smuggle problem could be fixed with buffs to the commodity and not just ONE system

There is no proper smuggling routes going to Bretonia from Taus this way (Manchster JH).

That was what was intended, so the smugglers have to go through Bretonian space to reach Liberty. There Manchester JH to Cortez instead of straight to Cortez. It is to make the route a little longer and to get more interactions without.

Smugglers docking on Barrier Gate Station.

Barrier Gate Station had Baffin JH 15k and Cortez JH 13k from it or something really close to, so it was near impossible for 2 expierenced bombers to take down a well armored transporter. That includes trying to RP from the JH and it continueing to move and silent traders which is what we got alot of and there is even video footage of NC doing this.