Hey guys. I was just talking about trading and smuggling with a fellow CMDR and we fleshed out some ideas for a smuggler's hold/cargo bay.
So Basically smuggling and doing smuggling missions is difficult and scary. I was thinking of an idea to make smuggling something a little more appealing to the masses. Came up with the idea of smuggler's holds. After all not unreasonable. what is is a scan and for 4 units of stolen or illegal goods and looking at a tens of thousands in fines.
So we proposed the ability to buy a smugglers hold that wouldn't negate the chance of being found, out but reduce it. So for like an E grade; 2 ton hold it would be a 30% reduction in finding out the items in the smugglers hold. With an A grade there would be a 80% reduction. Also to encourage people from filling an entire type 6/7 with smugglers holds have a penalty for having more than one. For example, two A grade holds instead of an 80% reduction it would be something along the lines of a 65-70% reduction. If you have more units of illegal/stolen goods than you have smugglers hold space for it goes back to a 100% detection rate if being scanned.
I am just working with example numbers. Just wanted to throw it out into the community see what people thought. The idea was also brought up on this forum on December 30th.
So Basically smuggling and doing smuggling missions is difficult and scary. I was thinking of an idea to make smuggling something a little more appealing to the masses. Came up with the idea of smuggler's holds. After all not unreasonable. what is is a scan and for 4 units of stolen or illegal goods and looking at a tens of thousands in fines.
So we proposed the ability to buy a smugglers hold that wouldn't negate the chance of being found, out but reduce it. So for like an E grade; 2 ton hold it would be a 30% reduction in finding out the items in the smugglers hold. With an A grade there would be a 80% reduction. Also to encourage people from filling an entire type 6/7 with smugglers holds have a penalty for having more than one. For example, two A grade holds instead of an 80% reduction it would be something along the lines of a 65-70% reduction. If you have more units of illegal/stolen goods than you have smugglers hold space for it goes back to a 100% detection rate if being scanned.
I am just working with example numbers. Just wanted to throw it out into the community see what people thought. The idea was also brought up on this forum on December 30th.
