Ok, I roleplay both a liberty navy, and a smuggler. As a smuggler I would regard it as utter suicide to even attmpt to land on manhattan. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Go to rochester, beaumont or buffalo (the last only if you're running cardi) it's better RP and the profit margins are almost the same. Your fellow players will love you for it and it'll make you popular with the opposite sex.
As an LN character, I know for a fact that it is -extremely- difficult to stop smugglers. And those that I have caught have complianed at me bitterly ooc afterwards, when they have refused to pay a fine or drop their cargo and I have blown them up. Calling me a fascist and a bully.
How about you folks (yes you LolPenguin) get a liberty navy or police character and try it for a day?
I can guarantee that without a fair ammount of practice you will utterly fail to catch any smugglers at all. Plus there is no way we can be in 30 different places at once. If I am the only LN character on I am often far more comcernaed by the rampaging rogue gunboats, each with a pair of dragonfly missiles (made by the dragons, so how they got hold of them god only knows) which can blow my ship up in a single volley.
Yeh, "before you criticise your neighbor...."
/signed
[LN]-David.Hale
Oh yeh... and the "what artifacts" bull is -really- boring now. I've heard it about a million times and frankly the next person who says it is getting a torp in the nuts from me.
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