Smuggling in freighters

[Janus]

Some further thoughts.

One way of keeping the prices from going totally out of whack and still keeping the big ships in play...

Have a new small depot put in near every base like Rochester. These would buy contrabrand at a high enough price for big transports to make some money still, but they wouldn't sell that same contrabrand. If the base was a no. For game purposes, this would then get shuttled to the real base by NPCs for resale as normal.

The big trans pilots could then offload safely at the contrabrand recieving depot or try and make more money by pacelling it off into freighters.

Freighters could make the entire run direct to the end point, giving them a signifcant profit margin, far more per unit than the transport would make delivering to the depot. The runs would also be quite risky in a freighter, making it a challenge to earn the money but rewarding financially.

The third option would be to incorporate the if contrabrand is under x% of cargo it gets ignored. The transport could then make a run with mostly legal goods and a small amount of contrabrand. The contrabrand would then get off loaded to a waiting freighter and the transport would dock at the moring point as normal, with it's legal load.