Smuggling in freighters

[Tenacity]

I wake up in the morning log on ot disco, got to work, come from work, go to Omega-55 buy the mako class battleship, go to sleep, wake up, buys the bounty hunter batlecruiser, goes to work....etc.

could always implement a "no actions within 10 minutes, you get kicked off the server" addon =P

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[Janus]

I made some comments about freighter smuggling in the "how to fix smuggling" thread, I'll dig them out later.

In the mean time, I WOULD fly a Correo for smuggling, but it certainly wouldn't be a main income source char, it'd be something to switch to for a change of pace.

[Elsdragon]

O 55 Is a wilde system. Seriously, its omega 56

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[Janus]

Smuggling relevant portion from my post in the other thread

To my mind, smuggling *should* be more lucrative than legit trading. It should also come with concurrent risks which seem to be somewhat lacking. However..

A BWT or whatever else flying through house space full of cardamine isn't exactly realistic. Modern day smugglers go to great lengths to hide their cargos, coffee crates with drugs hidden in them for example.

Also, if you look at the NPC bulk traders, they are usually carrying genuine bulk commodties, oxygen, water etc. No PC carries these except as a fill in to get from one profitable leg to another as there's just no money in it.

Additionally, are the most used commodities in Sirius really slaves, cardamine and artifacts?

Some suggestions, some of which I'm sure it's possible for the software to handle

Smugglers in freighters don't get "caught". If there's a guy in a correo hauling artifacts, if you're the "law" in what every area, let him go. If he's got a BWT full of em, lock him up. You could even put a "can't pirate freighters" rule in to make them appeal to lawful traders.

Put a 10% or 20% limit on transports. If a guy in a BWT has 360 units of contrabrand or less or 720 or whatever, assume it's "hidden" and again, let him go. Again, if he's full, lock him up.

That's one way of making freighters more appealing and cutting down on the totally unrealistic smuggler powertrading. I'm not saying do away with it entirely, I'm saying make it more difficult and other forms of smuggling less appealing.

It's not a perfect suggestion by any means, but something to consider perhaps.

[Exsiled_one]

"just" letting him go sucks... they'ld taunt and be oorp.
my 2 cents. and ofcourse, if you have 300 cardi and 4700 something legal, they should let you go

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[pruskis92]

Every 5 minutes, the game generates 2,000-5,000 credits per unit of cargo based on the cargo type.

I like it, I could hide it somwhere and leave for 48 hours.. Monay Monay!!!

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[Elsdragon]

If it aint in the ID, SOme LOLindie Will peg him with a mortar

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[MB52]

Simple solution, ban transports from smuggling cargo to lawful planets.

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[Unseelie]

A game mechanic implementation of mb52's idea:

Bases which buy the 'smuggle' commodities be set to only allow docking of the small ships, in the same manner as the rogue dessies.

In that manner, we could rebalance the prices of the smuggle commodities to be worth a great, great deal (like, 10x what they are now) so that that 500 cargo ship is just about the same as a 5000 cargo ship.

This involves making manhattan, and a couple other bases, into two bases. Linking the mooring fixture to one, and the ring to another, only the ring buying cardamine or blood diamonds or whichever.

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[Exsiled_one]

aye thats awesome
actually thats the goal i remmeber being talked about week ago or so.
make some bases undockable for huge ships
make most bases undockable for huge ships.

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