[Event] An Exchange of Pleasantries + GRP ID Conversion (Completed)

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Money would be one reason, in that case. If the officials would have more to offer than that, it's almost a bingo.

By the way, it was less a complaint about the LPI indi than being a connected component to the story. Being a lolwut smuggler is frustratingly easy. I did it, spend 220.000.000 credits for Stork and cargo and you have the money back after three successful smuggles. So what you basically do is fly in a way that doesn't allow anyone else to find you, because it is still more profitable than any other trade route. (As you are not relying on miners / ore PoBs.)

Police characters can only do so much. They either can hope for smugglers showing up on TLAGSNET or camping at jump holes, so the smuggler needs to use another way (or F1s in space for the time being). That is how the common smugglers do it, because they rather do that than losing cargo they bought for 25 million credits, that is worth 90 million credits at the selling point. That wouldn't change if both minimum and maximum price would be altered, as the invested time is the same. When you fly off-plane for like 30 minutes and all that, you don't let them waste your time and do everything that is within the server rules to not lose.

I couldn't even blame people. Those smuggler log for the money, not for RP or any other beneficial behavior towards the community.




TL;DR: Keep the prices as they are, but make the cargo accessible only by official factions. That way you get another instance to ensure this will be done correctly while you don't have lolwut traders flooding low-pop times. People will do everything possible to not get caught and even then they don't have to fear for much, as even with the FR5 being a result, you can simply rename yourself or make a new Stork.

Also: Maybe contact the leaders next time so they can prepare themselves for the event, in terms of RP. Rheinland's leaders are pretty inactive, and Kusari is just dead in terms of officials anyway. Either contacting them before the event to set it up or generally override their laws for the duration of the event. It's better to have some officials being pissed about that - so they maybe get the idea and do something for their factions - than having no official participants. I mean, right now we have some, but it would be more if the event wouldn't just pop up and tell people to RP for it.

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