Smuggling in freighters

[Galacius]

you are missing the point. If they are made equal in terms, then there is no need for one to exist. They are two different ships and two different classes.

The problem is a huge corporate transports coming in with Cardi. That should be a no no...
(It is specially annoying when they make a point to announce in system chat when they made a successful delivery ... but that is my own personal peeve)

Personally I would prefer we take that option out for ships over 1k cargo, the reason being, in reality when they are discovered in soace, they sbould not be able to land and sell that cargo since ship that side can only land in designated huge hubs. This is the same reason you do not see 747's being used for cocaine smuggling by columbian drug lords.

No one is suggesting a frieghter will be making as much as a transport, but making 3.5 to 4 mil on a smuggling run to a main planet makes it interesting to all parties.

A bigger ship could still fly in with a load full of cardi, park itself about 15 k from manhatten and sell the cargo to freighters to sell at 90 percent the cost of delivery.

As for slaves, they can be added to the mooring portion of unlawful bases.

As for fortifying the small ships more? no... you want to fly like a smugglar, then accept all the risks that come with it.

You remove challenge and the fun goes with it....

PEACE

I think these ideas would really harm a lot of things. I doubt anyone really wants to rely on a swarm of freighters to get goods off ships. I see so much room for players exploiting other players that the admins load would probably triple.

You can make things equal but quite different. You wouldnt have to lose the freighter feel with a new tier of one.

Also I ask what exactly should stop another tier of freighters from being added? Compare the rhino and the camara or dromedary...not terribly different though there is a clear improvement. Now compare a gull to a shire/zoner whale/advanced train, and youll see that leap is huge! I like to think in tiers since I have a mmorpg background, say freighters start at tier 0 (rhino) and go to tier 2 (camara/dromedary) while transports start at 2.5-3 (gull) and go up to tier 8 (best of the best transports). I dont see why its wrong to suggest maybe a tier 5-7 class freighter that doesnt have much more cargo then a 3 but has some interesting perk to it that makes it fun and exciting.

Speaking of exciting I dont know if I could take much more excitement smuggling. I have been chased around by zas hs cr gmg and all others, waited them out when they camp jh (I hate that so much), been pirated chased down and all sorts of things. I doubt I could take much more excitement.

Not saying your idea is horrible Im just saying you need to look at this one to. Think of it this way admins will become even more overworked by random freighter guys ripping off people, and the server would feel more strain with more bases on it. Now if you add a new tier of freighter in some people could design the freighters (I would be willing to commission one if they go ahead with a stealth idea) and it would be very simple to add it in.