Embargoes

[Dusty Lens]

To counter Del's point, I would say that the current embargos have almost zero effect due the fact that no one actually heeds them, as they're enforced so rarely as to be non-existant.

Heck, I don't even run war machines through Bering on the regular, I run slaves and cardamine, which are frowned on even more significantly. Let alone plutonium through Kusari to Bretonia.

Long story short, I embrace embargoes and the idea that they might actually be enforced. The notion that a pretty solid run between Liberty and Rheinland will need to be performed by myself with an extra three layers of caution due to wartime buildup in order to deliver a load of diamonds to a private collector is extremely attractive.

Otherwise, smuggling is merely determined by what you have in your cargo hold, not by the manner in which you're attempting to evade the law in order to deliver desired goods.

I think embargoes rock, what sucks is that they're not enforced (something I can easily understand, Liberty is such a madhouse of unending combat that there's almost no time to interdict smugglers before another call comes up of wave of outcast bombers/rogue GBs/A Gaian Rheinland Battleship/).

My two cents.