Smuggler Archive

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Ragnaat wrote:

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gomi321 wrote:

Faction selling is a criminal activity. I'm bribing an officer with credits to hook me up.

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A criminal activity perpitrated by a high ranking military official - NOT a smuggler. Every day theres a post on this forum that we're not drug dealers or dope pushers, but somehow its ok to just "be some kinda criminal" when its making us money?

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Actually we do perpitrate the bribe. And we are to some degree drug dealers. We make the spice.

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gomi321 wrote:

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Ragnaat wrote:

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gomi321 wrote:

Faction selling is a criminal activity. I'm bribing an officer with credits to hook me up.

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A criminal activity perpitrated by a high ranking military official - NOT a smuggler. Every day theres a post on this forum that we're not drug dealers or dope pushers, but somehow its ok to just "be some kinda criminal" when its making us money?

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Actually we do perpitrate the bribe. And we are to some degree drug dealers. We make the spice.

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In game, right now, we make the spice, just like in game, right now, we "bribe" the official* and then "smuggle" FP for 3m where we hand it to someone else. But neither of those are smuggling activities, they're jsut 2 skills in a poorley designed "Smuggler" profession that we've been trying for nearly 2 years to get redesigned.



* ps... this feels much less like bribing with the new menu dialogs on TC.. feels more like donating money to the ASPCA, not that it matters

No, what I said was....

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Ragnaat wrote:
I'm not in favor of taking away our current skills and leaving us with nothing, but at the same time I am very in favor of dumping things that aren't really smuggler roles or skills and picking up things that are more smuggler like.

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Message Edited by Ragnaat on 02-17-2005 10:22 AM

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gomi321 wrote:

I understand your point I just disagree with it.

My point is that Smugglers are the criminal profession of SWG. We should be able to bribe officials, modify weapons, deal in spice and smuggle illegal goods. - fixed

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gomi321 wrote:

I understand your point I just disagree with it.

My point is that Smugglers are the criminal profession of SWG. We should be able to bribe officials, modify weapons, and deal in spice.

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If that's where you what the profession to go then we're just going to have to agree to disagree. From where I stand that positioning is *EXACTLY* what I've wanted to be changed since I first learned enough to know what the skills in our skillboxes did.

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yimaz wrote:

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gomi321 wrote:

I understand your point I just disagree with it.

My point is that Smugglers are the criminal profession of SWG. We should be able to bribe officials, modify weapons, deal in spice and smuggle illegal goods. - fixed

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gomi321 is right, you dont think Smugglers bribe officials in RL? Bribery is part of being a smuggler, it should just go with out saying. I mean really did you not watch Miami Vice as a kid?

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I'll agree smugglers can have bribing in their toolset... but bigger picture here... the pbolem isn't with the bribe its with the system... declared a side, train the ranks, kill lots of stormies for FP, become a colonel and stay there for 6 months while you run a business off of bribing the same idiot recruiter for an hour a night.

If Bribing was the skill, and we used that skill to obtain info, get past scans, allow our ship to land in theed with contraband, and sometimes bribe Factional personell that's fine by me. that is nowhere near what we have now.