11-01-2023, 09:50 AM
Type: Balance
Bug: Smuggler ID is forced to haul only mid tier commodities with high risk
Reproduction Steps:
Bug: Smuggler ID is forced to haul only mid tier commodities with high risk
Reproduction Steps:
- The Smuggler ID is forced to haul mid tier commodities with high risk; without access to low tier or high tier commodities.
Taking into consideration:
- Neutral reputation to all (++)
- Use of Freighters and Transports only (-)
- 5K ship access (+)
- Can be pirated / stopped by any lawful/unlawful (-)
- Travel time - this includes avoiding lawfuls by not using trade lanes (/net detection and nodock restriction) (+/-)
- Most commodities trade routes are 1 way only with most of them leading to Omicron MU or Vespucci (-)
Why would I use this instead of a lawful 5ker?
- I cannot do a trade course > i.e.: Liberty > Bretonia > Gallia > Omicron Alpha > Liberty
- The only viable trade route is New Berlin > Edinburgh and that's a mid tier income route with high risk
- I can't do a trade route according to ID without flying empty at least 2 systems
- The ID is basically stuck at high risk - mid tier income per route
This would not be a problem, but let us get high tier income as well. We smuggle! That means everything, everywhere! Why can't we run the embargo in NL? Why can't we have access to Restricted commodities - Light Arms, Munitions, etc. Allow the ID to trade everything - so we can fly full cargo regardless- or give it a bonus on smuggling. If you're crippling it by restriction, at least give us a reason to get chased around the map. High risk, high reward.
And if you say: balance and equity to the community and player base, please read again all the things that have been posted in this bug report from an objective perspective. Ignoring the 2 weeks we spent doing nothing but smuggling cardamine. The contest was free for all to join and compete. But I'll delete this part later on an edit. Or not. I won this ID fair and square and I see no reason to play it.