' Wrote: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.
Just to inform you, I DO have an official LN character, and I have stopped a smuggler before. CDing them and disrupting lanes helps alot, or doing the occasional patrol behind the planet where the colorado jh is. And if you're more worried about rampaging gunboats than a smuggler carrying contraband, then you shouldn't be stressing over stopping the smuggler.
' Wrote:You're what? One guy. I respect you if you really do pay the fines. However, spend some time in the LN's boots, whether as an indie or an official. I guarantee, very few smugglers will stop, jettison and pay the fines, but the ones who do earn so much respect I feel tempted to just let them slip by.
Of all the screenshots I have of smugglers, last time I checked it was 27, only three of them paid the fines, and I've only been on duty two or three weeks, with breaks in between.
So, what you're saying is, we should all make LABC's? Because that's what starts flame wars and such on the forums.
Yeah, the 7mil fine hurt a bit, but not too bad. And when you take the ScreenShots, post em on teh "known contraband carriers" thread for the officers in liberty. If there isn't one, make one. Keep an updated list of known smugglers, if they change their name, just keep adding every new found smuggler to the list and keep it in alphabetical order so you can find the name easily. And if you see join the game, keep tabs on what system they are in, have your "contraband smugglers" window open, alt+tab, search the list, come back and halt them if you find them. Use "long range scanners" to figuire out where you're going to place yourself.
It's not going to happen in an instant. Sometimes, most of the time, organization takes time.
And there are enough cap ships in liberty that if you call for back up and tell where you are or what you need it for, most of them will come because theres a chance they can blow something up. It's like....extortion.
And again. I have my own pair of LN boots thanks.
Edit:: and mind you, this is just my personal oppinion, and me stateing how and what I think and feel about all this. Don't hate me personaly, I love you guys. =]
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