Lets talk Galileo and Cassini

[BaconSoda]

Hmm, get 'em to farm in Colorado (NY Jump Gate) or something, there's much more interesting things happening there.

tbh, I've done that in a Dromedary and it's very nice. The Jump Hole to Padua is nearby and Luxury Foods from Samura Transports spawn at the Kepler and Galileo Gates. That is a good place for this kind of thing to happen because Colorado is somewhat of a populated system and there is risk in getting back to Padua. These people can interact with the system and become a part of the community instead of being isolated making money without any risk.

Bacon, so let me get this straight. People found an easy way to earn money and you simply go there on your reaver to shoot them for the lulz?

K.

Dab did a good job answering that.

Thing is, Dab and Alex, Galileo is supposedly a major trade corridor in independent space. At least in role play, it is. Galileo is the trade route between two houses, goods fly to and fro in abundance, backed up by ingame infocards ("Lore"). Hell, a second set of trade lanes was commissioned because Galileo was so alive. In reality however, the trade routes that go through there aren't worth the time and risk. Nerfing the sell point in Cassini would screw over honest smugglers, not just NPC pirates (who, by the by, aren't actually hurting anyone). If you wish to 'fix' Galileo, do so by tweaking the trade routes through it. More traders = more pirates = more navy = roleplay. Nerfing this "pot of gold" (I put that in quotations because NPC drops can be truly abismal there - e.g, little profit) would only push this so-called problem elsewhere. Like say, Dublin.

Oh and, the point about Cassini being so gosh darn close? If it's that upsetting, move the jumphole into the Padua fields.[/font]

Yeah, that was kind of the request in my OP. Apparently my TL;DR was too long for you:

TL;DR: lots of NPC farmers in Galileo. Turn down prices in Cassini. Move the Jump Hole to Padua.

Actually, the second set of lanes was setup in Galileo because Kepler was supposed to succumb to a Dark Matter storm making it impossible to traverse. Because of the blunder, Ageira fired a bunch of higher-ups who now reside in the Leiden faction of the Lane Hackers. True story.

Anyway, if you can find five people who trade to Cassini or even Padua or Leiden from another base, I'll pay you fifty million credits. I'm there every night. No one trades. It's just NPC farmers. And their Scyllas. Attacking without any warning. Then I can tell them why this is a problem. And this is good. But most players don't go up there, like you said, because it's so easy to just fly into Cassini (not everyone can dodge 3 Scyllas and a million Werewolves). So no one interacts with these players. Now those who really like to NPC farm can keep doing it and if the Jump Hole is moved then there's risk and fun involved to farming NPCs and that's great. No one is saying NPC farming is bad. What I'm saying is that NPC farming without any risk or interaction is bad.

Now, see, moving the "problem" to Dublin would be a good thing. Why? Because those players can then interact with people and become a part of the community instead of being referred to as a separate entity known as "Galileo NPC Farmers" like I just did there. They can learn the rules and then have fun with the rest of us, instead of being a closed off sect who has no idea what is going on outside of Galileo. But I don't want them to move to Dublin. I want them to stay in Galileo and play the role they want to play, only I want that role to have a weakness like every other role in the game.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.