(01-04-2013, 07:40 PM)SA_Scavenger Wrote: Jack, if we can get caught undocking right from Planet Malta, then it's done. We cannot win or even play that type of game. It's merely stupid.
Secretive rp -is- possible. At considerable risk for official factions. For a while IMG| transports supplied Diamant Hessian base. But as you might guess, the amount of metagaming to keep this operation from being discovered was enormous (even though the cat&mouse game was tense!) and I stopped it, as it was just too much of an effort and made me age too fast.
Also... you are generalising much too much.
If the Congress had a 4ker with slaves caught, or a 5ker with cardi, no one would have made a big mess out of it. Official factions would have ignored it largely, and I would not even have contacted the Congress for it. And even if someone contacted you, you could say: "The transport captain has been severely punished, we will make sure this doesn't happen again" and it would work for the 1st time... heck, I even allowed the promise to work on the Barge incident (until it went all south due to reasons I will likely never understand)
All I can say about this complaint of yours is: It was a Barge.
=> Smuggling =/= Barge. Sorry.
Quote:The only way to try to play is not to play at all. If the stunt you guys are trying to pull carries on, shut down Junker factions, it's simply not worth it.
And do you need to shut down all semi-/unlawful action? No. But having it supersized with jump-trading Barges is just not the way that goes unnoticed and gets ignored if detected.