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

[Etaphreven]

Okay, let's take them one by one.

1.

To make money in this event, you only need to make a new character. That is done in five minutes. /restart RhCorpRepublican, move to Alster, pay 220 million for Stork + 5000 units event commodity from the Westphalen. So you're on the go.

That's something you can do in general as well, it's not event related.

2.

You give your ship a ***** name, something totally unregocnizeable. I could make a list of lolwut names from the actual event, actually, but I prefer to not call people out.

You can always give your tradeship a "lolwut" name. Nothing to do with this event.

3.

If you get caught smuggling, you either get fined or shot down and you simply can start over, with the only loss being 25 million credits from the load.

So nothing new? Except normally you don't lose 25 million, but less. Still nothing to do with the event.

4.

You don't even lose much time, because you can simply go to another route. And what the usual smugglers do, I already mentioned posts earlier.

True, you have more smuggling options. But you have more smuggling options in general too, so it's not really related to the event.

5.

The lolwut-smugglers are literally no benefit for the server. They do minimal RP, if anything, and avoid certain areas by counter-playerlisting, quickdocking, F1 in space and all that. Police-forces can FR5 them, they simply rename.

That happens, like, always. Nothing to do with the event. Lolwuts will always exist. Or you mean people who generally RP now make lolwut chars? Well then they're asshats. I smuggle with a well established character.

6.

With officials, you don't have that. They are players of a certain responsibility. If they behave like that, they are more likely to kicked out. Officials have to show more carefulness. They could go smuggling, but they can't simply rename, because they represent the faction. If a Liberty Military Freighter gets caught in Rheinland smuggling, it has consequences. Action -> Reactio. To avoid that being smuggling, people need to RP. So far, only Bretonia did so, as Thunderer sent messages to Rheinland for Straussberg and Mississipi in Texas. Those people care about inRP consistency and immersion, other than lolwut-traders that magically get their hands on Samura ID Kujiras (lol!) and also get their cargo bays stuffed with military cargo as if the people on board of battleships wouldn't check the papers.

If officials behave NOPEy, F1 in space and all that, their feedback threads are on fire like after a meal at KFC.


So you see, the officials have it less easy than lolwuts. They have to be responsible. They need to RP the stuff out first (with Rheinland and Kusari very, very slow on responses).

This is another topic entirely. Nobody was comparing indies to officials.

The only real thing that might encourage the kind of behaviour you talk about is the fact that the rewards are higher. It is an event, of course they are higher. If they weren't, people wouldn't participate.

I smuggle with my FL ID Serenity and nobody has stopped me so far. Even the pirates are lazy and only ask like 5 million when my profit is 42.5 million per run. That's something they have to fix, not me. If they taxed more, I wouldn't be so careless when smuggling. If police tried to catch me more, like they usually do when there's no event, I wouldn't be so careless when smuggling. So that's something they have to fix, not me.

The issue I see is the fact that everyone has the same reward. Officials should have it much higher in order to balance it out with smuggling being open ended. This can indeed encourage people to make smugglers instead of using their officials, but none of the behaviors you listed above are new. People will "lolwut" regardless. They will just "lolwut" for more money now.