Just an idea. Some stations are clearly owned by Pirates. In those stations you should be able to buy pirated goods. The Pirates themselves will not transport these to other places bc most of them have a price on their heads. Now I would like for these goods to be legal ( bc a good hacker should be able to falsify the records ) or even better have a certain % chance not to show up as stolen when scanned.
They also should be relatively cheap.
An the other hand you should be able to sell things they need ( Meat, Tobacco, Drugs et al ) for a nice Profit.
The drawbacks are:
- If the Pirates do not know/trust you traveling to these stations should be extra dangerous.
- The market fluctuations should be huge, wanting to sell beer to the Pirates - well unfortunately they just caught a T7 full of the stuff. Wanting to by stoilen Palladium well unfortunately the only thing they stole in the last 24h is Hydrogen Fuel ...
- You still might have to sell the goods at a black market
- You might have to travel further afield ( if a T9 full of Silver has been plundered and you turn up in a neighboring system full of silver of dubious ownership it might give local authorities ideas )
- For the Pirates to entrust you with the good stuff ( there real prices Slaves, Gold ... ) you should be at least friendly if not allied to them.
They also should be relatively cheap.
An the other hand you should be able to sell things they need ( Meat, Tobacco, Drugs et al ) for a nice Profit.
The drawbacks are:
- If the Pirates do not know/trust you traveling to these stations should be extra dangerous.
- The market fluctuations should be huge, wanting to sell beer to the Pirates - well unfortunately they just caught a T7 full of the stuff. Wanting to by stoilen Palladium well unfortunately the only thing they stole in the last 24h is Hydrogen Fuel ...
- You still might have to sell the goods at a black market
- You might have to travel further afield ( if a T9 full of Silver has been plundered and you turn up in a neighboring system full of silver of dubious ownership it might give local authorities ideas )
- For the Pirates to entrust you with the good stuff ( there real prices Slaves, Gold ... ) you should be at least friendly if not allied to them.