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

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Yeah, I know you wouldn't want anyone to edit the event you're profiting about with billions.

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.

Those things are all related to the event, as you make 85 million credits with full 5k and only buy it for 25 millions. Ergo: 60 million netto. That's way beyond ore trading. So you don't even have PoB-based interactions during this event. People are encouraged to make lolwuts to smuggle here, while the ore trades are legal business.

And then again, with the reward for successful smuggle way higher than the reward for intercepting smugglers, I do fully understand why both lawfuls and unlawfuls are rather hesitant (and not lazy) to log seriously for hours to camp their turf. On that I agree. However, things can easily be changed to have the right people benefit from the event. Not only people that play lolwut on an RP server.

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People don't have to act reasonable/responsible with the current settings. They don't even need to interact. Instead, they earn billions within a day, effectively shortening the amount of time you need to invest for bigger projects. Long-term motivation is shortened effectively by that, when you don't have any goals to work for anymore. That might be different for you, but there are other people that are fully working like that. I think low-effort shouldn't be rewarded.