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

[oZoneRanger]

I do understand where people come from, but if people would already have enough money themselves, they wouldn't do those runs. On the other hand, I don't really see many pirates/police chars, nor do I see many militaries. So this event is profitable for the guys that need to make money, while the other side rather complains instead of logging.

The problem is that any lolwut can do the smuggle - I just tried it with a recording. The only thing that stood in my way was a metagaming LPI in NY that had no evidence of me even entering the system but contacted me via system chat. Later he PMed me inRP, telling me that he got the TLAGSNET logs for my ship to add me to the criminal thing list. Other than that he did a very solid RP.

However, that makes me think. If LPI players need to metagame their knowledge of people in the same system, it is either a noob, or a sign of desperation, and the latter is justified by the fact that anyone can make /restart RHCorpRepublican, get a Stork at Alster, move to Westfalen and get the first load. They can then move over the Sigmas to avoid Liberty, which is what I would do if I would be that desperately want to avoid any danger.

So, what can be fixed? I would rather see the lolwut-smuggling stop and make this cargo only available for officials, to boost membership in those factions.

Police factions have satellite data available to them. Engine core signals, long range scans, call it what you want, it is legitimately Rp-able. Very different from the "I use the system chat to find interations" which is more about blue-message-hunting and griefing than anything else.

You could argue that New York, would be one with the most data available. Cops/Military may know you are in the system, but not your location. Funny how any time anyone gets busted in game, there is the "he was metagaming" or "he a Noob" excuse for having been busted. For a cop/military to know that certain ships are in the Capital system of house space would seem pretty normal. Tipical Disco elitism on your part for those comments.

As for the event. There are no RP consequences that can be played out and enforced. No one stops, no one drops the cargo, everyone is a quick dock, or they have the excuse that they have "verbal" permission to be there from a "Skype" buddy who is in a military faction.

Maybe a tweak to the event. Like, making the cargo transport ONLY available to the Official Tag ships of USI-BMM-Whatever Rhienland uses to supply its militarty and Kishiro/Samura(which everone fits the lore better considering the civil war stuff up there). And that these ships be allowed to have a Military escort of snub craft.

These should also be a "Go there and Back" route and they are being used in a circular fashion, which is good for people RPing smugglers, but hardly anyone does that. Most smuggling these days on the server is for ooRP ship building and base supply, and not much that you can do about it.