The first rule of Smuggling club is...
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If I tried that I would be a big splat on the back wall lol
So seeing my oxygen run out if I mess up isn't a rush? I race the clock not so much the feds.
I don't care that you think it's more fun to power through full speed, it may be more risky in regards to running into the station but other than risking my ship's wellbeing it is boring to me. I don't even use SR since my second week learning the in's and out's of ED stealth, so telling me what a slow approach with SR & heatsink's won't be a complete tell of what it'll be like for me but at least that experience is closer than any with the word "boost" in it.
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I'm trying to get a new Navy ascension opportunity so I'm doing missions for minor factions in several systems around Dvorsi.I bought a Courier and kitted it for smuggling/light cargo since many of these missions concern such activities..And I have to say carrying around illicit cargo and speeding through letterboxes to avoid being scanned is great fun
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I am amazed sometimes at the detail that people put in to 'getting through the slot' .. I just fly in quickly and never (ever) get scanned, a scan may initiate but never in time. Odd.
First descent smuggling run found for me! Buying narcotics from an agriculture independent and selling to tourists. (Selling weed to tourists hah)
Should probably be selling for more and it's definitley still broken but yeah, dead happy with it!
Should probably be selling for more and it's definitley still broken but yeah, dead happy with it!
Why no C4 on the huge HP?
Look at that demand though... I could wipe that out in three trips.
how on earth could a station full of people only have a demand for drugs that small?
i live in a small town and while I'm not proud of this fact a lot of the idiots that live in my neck of the woods are on something.
How in any stretch of the imagination can a station capable of holding millions of residents have the same if not a lower demand for an all encompassing "narcotics" commodity than my small "city" in the middle of nowhere?
yea I realize these are tons we are talking about but again I'm surrounded by idiots!
All illegal goods should have a high demand. They are illegal, they are not produced in huge tonnages in station and are not held to the same rules as produced by X consumed by Y.
If anything the more you deliver the higher that demand should get as the more druggies you make with each ton.
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I've built myself a nice sneaky Fer De Lance for smuggling.
With the new Tactical Graphite paintjob it's visually hard to spot in the darkness as well as electronically when running silent.
I work for Arissa Lavigny-Duval and her purging of the black markets means that there's plenty of opportunities for shrewd business man with a fast ship. The bulletin boards are always full of people wanting something that the authorities don't want them to have.
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I got caught coming OUT of a station last night, stupid, I smuggled Imp slaves in, but the price was crap, was going to make a slight loss. So I decided to bring them to another system were I knew the rate was better.
However easy it is to hid on the way in, it is en difficult to hid on the way out. fined 1,2 M.
All good fun
However easy it is to hid on the way in, it is en difficult to hid on the way out. fined 1,2 M.
All good fun
That is a slick looking "Go Fast Boat" there Falcon
Scudmungus
Banned
I love that there's different approaches of smuggling and how they work for different people. Good discussion!
I don't take any chances and combine silent running with a high-speed approach. It works every time and admittedly it does feel remarkably easy.
Maybe some tweakage to the AI of the security patrols could be in order? For example; ships going above a certain speed threshold, or the appearance of ejected heat sinks brings over a patrol craft to investigate.
Or maybe I'm just benefiting from lots of practice and it's fine as it is?
I'm just glad that our profession is now looking very healthy and profitable, at last!
I don't take any chances and combine silent running with a high-speed approach. It works every time and admittedly it does feel remarkably easy.
Maybe some tweakage to the AI of the security patrols could be in order? For example; ships going above a certain speed threshold, or the appearance of ejected heat sinks brings over a patrol craft to investigate.
Or maybe I'm just benefiting from lots of practice and it's fine as it is?
I'm just glad that our profession is now looking very healthy and profitable, at last!
That is a slick looking "Go Fast Boat" there Falcon
One has a certain image to maintain
Smuggling like a Sir
^^^ this
Much as I love that it's now profitable, smuggling really needs to be harder for big ships, using a smaller ship should be necessary. I mean how blind are these security ships that they can't visually see a type 7 or anaconda blasting towards the station?
Scudmungus
Banned
Mi T7 is green. Green invisible!
Besides - turns worse than smaller ship, making for harder corrections o course.
And T7 overkill for Bulletin board missions!
Also much harder to nip through busy slot. Course if mons in Solo, no worries.
Play big - risk losing big to win big!
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Nope, we're smuggles, trotting out our 1980's smokey cantina tropes.
Now... where did I put my wookie?