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Thread: A nice response to people who accuse smugglers slicing theft...

Shidi-Rommu
Fri May 21, 2004 7:34 am
#1

Pulled from a container thread on Chimaera:



"In my opinion the container slicing thing is one of the things that does actually make it feel like you really are dealing with a smuggler who's a criminal in SWG. Smugglers are meant to be shady, underworld characters performing illegal acts.

You engage him to pick the lock of a container that you've just stolen from the still warm body of a common street criminal and you have to put a certain amount of trust in someone, who is really, just another criminal. You can cross your fingers and hope that the man you've just trusted with your ill-gotten gains is trustworthy, but at the end of the day you're trusting someone who's life is based on hacking, illegal entry, smugglling past inspection points and fighting dirty. "


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TsN-Wizzer
Fri May 21, 2004 9:31 am
#2

It's sad when the Smuggler is the Most trusted Profession in the Galaxy. Who else are you going to hand your 800k Suit of 80% Composite to with no way of knowing if he will give it back.


How funny would it be if all of the smugglers just Started keeping the things tradded to them, Start a mass hysteria about Smugglers being Thiefs. People will really want to have their stuff sliced but will Really never know if they can Trust a Smuggler.






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icote
Fri May 21, 2004 9:36 am
#3






TsN-Wizzer wrote:

It's sad when the Smuggler is the Most trusted Profession in the Galaxy. Who else are you going to hand your 800k Suit of 80% Composite to with no way of knowing if he will give it back.


How funny would it be if all of the smugglers just Started keeping the things tradded to them, Start a mass hysteria about Smugglers being Thiefs. People will really want to have their stuff sliced but will Really never know if they can Trust a Smuggler.









Oh the Humanity....


The Horror.


I'm thinking maybe,just maybe, that JohnQ. Publicthinks we get frozen in carbonite if we're not honest enough....






SBRD0C
Fri May 21, 2004 10:18 am
#4

Hmm yeah Who knows what kind of griefing would go on if that trust were placed in some OTHER professions communities... Nothing would besafe.



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Diskrider
Fri May 21, 2004 10:43 am
#5

I would have thought that stealing an item thats been given to you to slice constitues trade fraud.Merchants can get reported via the customer service system for trade fraud, id imagine the same can be done to us.
icote
Fri May 21, 2004 11:45 am
#6






Diskrider wrote:
I would have thought that stealing an item thats been given to you to slice constitues trade fraud.Merchants can get reported via the customer service system for trade fraud, id imagine the same can be done to us.






I agree that we should be able to be reported if we were to do that, but having someone hand you an item is a *little* different than misrepresentation. Plus from all the fraud stories I've read on the board and CSRs didn't do anything, I'm suprised people trust us at all... It really is a testement to the smuggler communities reputation that we do any slicing business at all with the way the process works as is.



superbike
Fri May 21, 2004 1:07 pm
#7






TsN-Wizzer wrote:

It's sad when the Smuggler is the Most trusted Profession in the Galaxy. Who else are you going to hand your 800k Suit of 80% Composite to with no way of knowing if he will give it back.


How funny would it be if all of the smugglers just Started keeping the things tradded to them, Start a mass hysteria about Smugglers being Thiefs. People will really want to have their stuff sliced but will Really never know if they can Trust a Smuggler.








hmmm if we ever have a smuggler protest.. would this be the thing to do? or just stand around like a bunch of wookies waiting for the stun batons to fall



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Aladine
Fri May 21, 2004 1:15 pm
#8

A smuggler protest wouldn't work, because all the major weaponsmiths have lucrative contracts with smugglers or are themselves master smugglers, and this would do nothing to decrease the number of sliced goods on the server, at least not significantly.



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Saabotage
Fri May 21, 2004 1:58 pm
#9






TsN-Wizzer wrote:

It's sad when the Smuggler is the Most trusted Profession in the Galaxy. Who else are you going to hand your 800k Suit of 80% Composite to with no way of knowing if he will give it back.


How funny would it be if all of the smugglers just Started keeping the things tradded to them, Start a mass hysteria about Smugglers being Thiefs. People will really want to have their stuff sliced but will Really never know if they can Trust a Smuggler.






See, we ARE the most trusted becaus,e if you want your shipment delivered on time!!! :-) its gonna cost ya. If you dont pay Its still gonna cost ya. its win win for us so they trust us :-) and i got a knife to their back the entire time!




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icote
Fri May 21, 2004 2:06 pm
#10

When it absolutely positively hasgot be there or thesmacks going to hit the dewback..


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Golrok
Fri May 21, 2004 6:11 pm
#11

what i dont get is those people who just run up to you, demand you unlock there 20 some conts like you need the XP or something, and hurry it up cause they aint got all frickin day, and offer no tip at all. it really depends on your relationship and cool factor IMO of the results you'll get from smugs slicing conts.


/shrug when they act like tools they get toolish results.



DRWolfe
Sat May 22, 2004 12:27 am
#12

Criminals or not, smugglers have to be trustworthy, as far as getting the job at hand done. Otherwise, no business. Besides, we're smugglers, not thieves.



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Aladine
Sat May 22, 2004 12:44 am
#13






TsN-Wizzer wrote:

It's sad when the Smuggler is the Most trusted Profession in the Galaxy. Who else are you going to hand your 800k Suit of 80% Composite to with no way of knowing if he will give it back.


How funny would it be if all of the smugglers just Started keeping the things tradded to them, Start a mass hysteria about Smugglers being Thiefs. People will really want to have their stuff sliced but will Really never know if they can Trust a Smuggler.









Hahaha...oooh..boy....


I just fell outa my chair laughing and now people are staring at me...


Yea this would be fun, but imagine all the people bitching to CSRs, HE SCAMMED ME. You will have to get people to agree to the fact that there is a small, but random chance that you are going to take their stuff and split.




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Mastered: Marksman, Tera Kasi Artist, Smuggler, Pistoleer, Commando, Swordsman, Rifleman, Chef
Next: Ranger then MCH
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