Embargoes

[tfmachad]

Question that arises: How the hell people get past the necessary hassle to acquire the stuff in the first place, while I can even imagine smugglers getting their hands on some deviated materials due to corruption, but Gateway??? That makes as much sense as an LN war ship landing on a Rheinland base and being allowed out without raising any eyebrows.

Also, about killing RP. Most of the time I've personally disrupted trading going out of Rheinland space I was met with a complete ooRP sentiment (not exactly the response) towards it. It was not that traders in character were upset about it, but players were upset because we were messing up their credits/minute ratio while forcing them to stop and actually speak to us, be it in RP or whatever. They just didn't care.

The way I see it, it's bad enough for people to try and take away from the House any valuables to the enemy in a time of war, but military equipment is yes, very profitable, but also very dumb if you're waving them right in front of that House's forces. The fact that people actually allow RM to spot them carrying military vehicles towards Liberty suggests either ignorance (it happens and it's common) or complete lack of interest in the RP going on with the war between the two Houses.

If people were indeed smuggling military vehicles from Rheinland to Liberty, the first thing they should do if an encounter with the RM was unavoidable was to dump all cargo and fly away from it, with the hope that the RM personnel won't notice it. That alone would be enough in RP reason for RM pilots to come guns blazing and destroy the ship, but server/rule mechanics (fortunatelly and unfortunatelly) disallow it. Perhaps otherwise that would open enough room for a more convincing reaction from traders.

The way I see it, anything that brings the traders to interact with the "fighters" can only open up room for more RP?ng opportunities. But as with everything, it really depends on both sides interacting.

EDIT: Also, point of matter. The whole argument is somewhat flawed. If both nations were indeed at war I could accept the argument that ANY materials coming in would be welcomed. But also, these materials wouldn't be paid for, either the people bringing those in would have acquired those illegally (or stolen them from the other side) or they would be killed coming in and the goods would be appropriated.

The embargo is not meant to avoid goods from coming in or out, but capital from circulating INTO the other nation. With legit trading, while the goods are indeed coming in, the money to pay for them is going back to the source. So, by taking legit trading from Liberty, Rheinland is financing its war machine which will eventually be used against it and vice-versa.

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