Roleplay Notice Discussion Thread

[Grimtooth]

Ok here's the thing i have seen a few comments about power smugglers and would like to know what you all consider a "power" smuggler?
My smuggler is contracted to run cardamine to lawful systems like Texas, New York and New Berlin.
One thing i get REALLY tired of hearing when i hot dock a landing is some bounty hunter crying it is OoRP.
As a smuggler you would take any advantage you could get to avoid being stopped and searched so hot docking is a logical way to do that and yes you CAN CD a smuggler who is hot docking if you know what you are doing DW Apache got me with a CD today (kudos) but i went into cinamatics and landed. Now as for role playing sitting right in front of a landing ring is really not the best place to stop a smuggler and 9 times out of 10 they are not going to stop or respond to your "HALT" until after they have docked. Then if they load a legal cargo and launch you have a bounty hunter or other lawful who are mad because you hot docked and then the only RP you get is you were hauling illegal goods pew pew pew. Yes you may have scanned them and if you can tell me EXACTLY what i was hauling i will take it for granted you have a screeny of my cargo and will pay the fine if you don't kill me. But i find that most players who are trying to stop smugglers of any type are just begging for an excuse to blow them up. If you don't stop or hot dock you die and this has happened to me when hauling LEGAL cargo.
I hot docked at Houston with a empty and loaded diamonds to take to Manhattan and got stopped by the LN who proceeded to tell me you cannot buy diamonds at Houston!
This is one reason the Council of Dons has placed a bounty one the LN, Bounty hunters and a select group of other players. paying a fine is not a bad thing it gives you the chance to role play and interact with the other player and still turn a profit in most cases unless you get caught with the cargo and have to drop it. But far too often you do not get the chance as a smuggler because players carry a grudge if you get away from them and then the next time you see them it's "you are a smuggler you ran from me pew pew pew".