Rule Discussion: Smugglers and Lawful interaction, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,

[Laura C.]

The reality of the smuggler vs. lawful situation is that lawfuls have killed their own quality smuggler interaction through use of FR5. Especially with official factions. Nobody wants to smuggle when it means their faction will just get FR5'd.

see: junker hate

Painful truth there.

For the love of god, not those almost mythical FR5s for smuggling again! Where is that smiley which is banging his head against the wall when you need him...

Alright, just shortly. Tell me more how "lawfuls have killed their own quality smuggler interaction through use of FR5" when RFP (as well as other Rheinland lawfuls as far as I know) did not issue a single one for several years. Same goes for Bretonia, Kusari and Gallia as far as I noticed (feel free to correct me on these though, I don´t follow their activity that much as Rheinland). But no, people still live in their "bad bad lawful official factions are killing smuggling through FR5s" bubble which is based on experience from one single house (which I think even started to use them less as well). But let´s drag all lawfuls in the same bag, why not, right?

Let me show you how "killing smuggling" looks like in Rheinland, where In the last several years I tried from my position to promote and lobby for very smuggling friendly attitude. Yet obviously no one cares, we are still the bad ones killing smuggling... Anyway, the tools we use for killing smuggling: the fines were lowered to the point where if cooperating, maximum fine for 5ker is 5 million what is minor part of profit so every smuggler´s succesful delivery is enough to cover fines for several unsuccesful ones. The RFP is even that evil to smugglers that we do not act upon cargo scans received from non-law enforcement. FR5s, as already mentioned, are not a thing for years. And on top of that, exception was added so very small amount of contraband does not even have to be fined at all, so those who carry like one unit of artifacts or cardamine for RP purpose have better chance to talk their way out of punishment through roleplay. But even if they fail, they do not pay millions for it. Such evil lawfuls we are... I really do not know what even more reasonable things should we do to "promote" smuggling.

Yes, I realize I sound quite bitter, but at this moment I seriously ask myself why I even bothered all these years when people still live in their bubble of bad lawfuls killing smuggling which is totally unfair to most of them. I could have been issuing FR5s right and left and it seems no one would notice a difference. And all of that just because "risk assesment" is unknown term to most of the players, so they rather keep going for the highest profit in Liberty despite risking the highest fines there and especially in the past facing real threat of being FR5, instead of smuggling into some other house like Rheinland where profits are lower, but risks are significantly less threatening as well.

Rant of disillusioned lawful over.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.