-keep out of omicron 100!-

[Tenacity]

*took a look only at the first posts*

I perfectly understand you, Here in Alaska we are Tired of everything:

* OC/Cardi Smugglers
* Co/Arti Smugglers
* Random people "Exploring"
* OORP Co/OC
* Capwhores,,,(Both lawfuls, and unlawfuls)
* OORPer, OOCing in system chat:
The worst i've is someone saying in system chat without any //: "Wow, You guys are really sticking to RP"
* etc

However, no problem with Order related stuff, even if it is a BS, As long as they RP with us.

I very rarely travel into alaskaberty, it's only happened once since I started with my order character and that was to chase down a liberty battlecruiser and two bounty hunters that kept poking their heads into omicron minor.

I typically encourage other non-Bs| order pilots to stay out of alaska as well, as it only provokes liberty into intruding on our space in return.

That's going to change when I get my gunboat though =P More recon/stealth missions into liberty are going to happen, but rest assured I wont be there to start fights.

I don't know, until SP campaign is dropped and Alaska is buffed up to how it should be, it will always be an issue. And to be fair, if you want to make any realistic money smuggling, cardamine is your best bet. I timed it once several times with a friend, who went the texas-bering-hamburg-frankfurt-sigma 13-sigma 17-omicron beta-omicron alpha (and back) route, compared to the texas-new york-alaska-omicron minor-omicron 100-omicron major-omicron 90-omicron alpha.

It actually saves you almost 5 minutes by going through Alaska, and sometimes longer depending on how many trade lane disruptions you have happen, so I can't entirely blame smugglers. It might not be the best RP in the universe to go that route, but cardamine simply isn't profitable enough for the time it takes. It isn't profitable enough right now anyway (which is why everyone runs diamonds-niobium). Not to mention you suffer the additional risk of being blown out of space by unlawful corsairs/Order and lawfuls throughout new york and texas (or even higher chances of being shot at if you go through the texas-hamburg-omicron beta route).

When I smuggle cardamine on my junker, I go from alpha through the tau systems, through kyushu, shikoku, kepler, colorado, to new york. The route may take a little longer, but it's far more realistic for a smuggler to cruise through open house space with contraband than to go through three of the most heavily guarded military systems in all of sirius with it.

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