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Thread: Publish 6 Feedback: Imperial Crackdown
Having contraband scans in only three cities is very unrealistic. I was expecting every city, except for specific Rebel cities like Anchorhead, to have a STRONG Imperial presence of stormtrooper platoons scanning for Rebels and contraband. I haven't experienced any scans or shakedowns on Dantooine on Chilastra (though I spend most of my time in a player city). I've read the stories of stormies raiding cantinas and instantly getting killed. Cantina raids should strike fear into all Rebels in the room and send them scrambling into the basement, not happy about getting free FP. In summery, the Crackdown should be improved by:
* Increasing patrols in all cities (but keep large groups from forming in one place to avoid lag)
* Making raiding stormies MUCH stronger and/or more plentiful
* Increase wilderness probes
I would much appreciate a response from a red-name to acknowledge that this an others' complaints were seen.
On Corbantis, I spent some time near Theed yesterday. At the Theed starport there were a few people advertising their shops out of tow with sliced weapons, drugs and armor while nearby an Imp NPC officer talked to another NPC. Looking around Theed, I found nothing out of the ordinary, no Troopers, Probe Droids etc. No change for poor little neutral me. 
A friend, playing Reb, admitted he had never collected so many FP in such a short time. He's changing from Tailor to Bounty Hunter, and he confessed that camping near Bestine he can skill up faster than ever before.
VelRahn wrote:
lol one more for ya TH
How about an onscreen message that pops up to let us know when a scan has gone into effect? When a stormtrooper comes in and says "checking it out" 7 times (or something similar) we all wonder who he's talking about.
If I were to get an onscreen message saying "The Imperial stormtrooper focuses his scanning equipment on you..." I'd sit back and hold my breath, waiting to see if I got caught.
Might add some suspense to the game
Sit back and hold your breath? I'd run for the hills! 
Of course, it'd be very neat if the message said, "You are being scanned. Failure to comply with this scan will result in an assumption of guilt. Stay where you are."
I seriously doubt this will be read but from little I saw everything BUT the actual crackdown is nice and it's not cause the crackdown itself is bad but that there wasn't more of the same in more cities.
I can understand not having this in coronet and Mos Easiley(?) but really there should be a crackdown in every static city that currently exists if people don't like it they can goto a player city; there is choices.
I can also understand one place on a planet that doesn't have the crackdown so those that don't wish to be involved don't have to be *to a lesser extent let's not remove the feleing of at least an imperial presence*
I can understand many things but the fact that the crackdown is SOOOoo easily avoided. Not once while hunting did I even SEE a probe bot in the distance to even avoid.
So I suppose that leaves only the questions.
1. Will more static cities get hit by this now you know we want more not less or ok with said amount?
2. Will we see ATATs and ATSTs in Theed so the Player Imps have a SAFE base to operate in instead of overt rebels doing whatever? *especially there? Make the stormtroopers a little less potent then Night sisters I mean come on that's Theed.....which leads too*
3. Can you stop the stormtroopers from dropping so much faction points? The Imp players have a right to be upset that currently the situation is that the stormmies are just getting blasted for faction points. *tho why I have no clue nothing I seen worth getting not even a rebel banner =P*
4. When will we see vehicles not require a camp to pull out and put away? *you put that delay like in the droids top avoid abuse* Let's get that put in be nice and also for our droids and pets.
Thank you.