5.3 - Hotfix 1

[Chenzo-]

LITERALLY kills the most INRP and common smuggling route for the faction.

(New London) New London is a just a sideshow for the Outcasts, ’cause there’s no Jump Hole into Manchester from here. The main Cardamine route is through the Leeds smog clouds.

(New London) We sell the Mollys’ Gold, Corsairs’ Artifacts, and Outcasts’ Cardamine in New London. You can make very good money doing it, but don’t get caught. We’ll say we’ve never seen you before.

(New London) From here we ship to Liberty via the Rogue base Montezuma in Cortez. They can’t get enough of our Cardamine, so as long as we keep it flowing they are under our control. They make good attack dogs. Soon more of the criminal factions will become addicted, and we’ll rule Sirius — then our revenge will be complete.

(New London) BMM is no match for our military in Tau-23. We will force them out of the system and destroy the Jump Gate. Our survival as a sovereign nation is at stake. Cali is a crucial distribution point for Cardamine on the trip to Bretonia and Liberty.

(New London) The Outcast ship Lorenzo was making a Cardamine run from Cali to Mactan when it was caught by a military patrol in the LD-14 Asteroid Field. It turned further into the heart of the field to escape its pursuers and stumbled into an old radioactive pocket. The crew is presumed dead, but the ship is probably still intact. No one has retrieved the cargo yet due to the high radiation danger in the area.

(Manchester) All the Cardamine that flows into Liberty comes through this system. Have you ever tangled with an Outcast? I and two other police interceptors engaged four of them a few days ago. It was a mistake to go against them with fewer numbers. The other two interceptors got cooked.

Houses like activity, too.

More to do with the fact you're destroying another Vanilla link to fit a system which doesn't work anyway.

Smuggling is about AVOIDING house space until absolutely necessary.

Please see sense.

Edit:
This also negatively impacts Crayter the same way is does Outcasts in Alpha with the Theta hole being useless.

Here is a solution: Put the JH's that far apart in the baffin/coronado systems that it means the link doesn't have the same eco issue, whilst also not strangling the game.

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