To Official Trading Factions/indie traders/pirates

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That's a dangerous route. Because those activities aren't really very risky. Not more than regular trading - you just get different people trying to get you. And lawfuls catching smugglers usually have other things to manage, unlike pirates who give catching traders top priority.

Edit: @the risk of losing everything: There are many pirates asking for all cargo, and people sometimes pay more in credits (especially when they meet more pirates) than they earn on the run. Not saying it's wrong, just saying it's no better than smuggling this way.

In the result, you'd see everyone running blockades and smuggling, not because they RP a smuggler, but because it just pays that much more. It already was somewhat like that before mining took over, don't make it even more so - it doesn't make sense to have more people breaking embargoes than trading legally.
To the original proposal:
/signed

You mean a solution which could create other hotspots to remove people from NY or Dublin?

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.