Smuggler Archive
Thread: Poll: Contraband on Vendors
SpinningCloud
Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:40 am
#27
A.
AND, it should also include smugglers tools. List of contraband: spices, sliced items, clamps, nodes, WUKS, AUKS, laser knives.
Unless they make 'B' such that the vendors can be discovered by law enforcement with serious consequences. NEVER on the bazaar though...
Message Edited by SpinningCloud on 02-16-2005 07:43 AM
yimaz
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:02 am
#29
A.Contraband should not be sold on vendors; it’s illegal and as such should not be so easily available, nor as easily identifiable by the authorities.
You dont go to K-Mart to buy a fully automatic AK-47 with full round banana clips. 
MojoRein
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:04 am
#30
Bit of a split vote from me.
on Bazzare = A
Random vendor in a shop in the usual corolag shanty town = A
Mall in a Imperial / Neutral town = A
Mall / Shop in a rebel town = B
My logic is that it is the empire who declared these things illegal, sliced goods / spices should be the demain or rebels and "dodgy neutrrals" A much better way of doing this should be actually preventing imperials from using it,rather than the joke punishments there are now.
I even get the stormtrooper role players from our server asking me to slice their guns / armour, I always then play the innocent as they always try to roleplay getting me to do it.... but it just feels wrong!
Errrr kinda ranty above and not such an issue on most servers where the imperials need all the help they can get, but on Chim for over a year we were very much THE server with the imperials in dominance and even now it is about even.
Zhagadska
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:04 am
#31
26 for A
3 for B
not counting Mojo's cuz i don't know which one he's voting for 
Message Edited by Zhagadska on 02-16-2005 10:05 AM
Jaguarrr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:05 am
#32
yimaz wrote:
A.Contraband should not be sold on vendors; it’s illegal and as such should not be so easily available, nor as easily identifiable by the authorities.
You dont go to K-Mart to buy a fully automatic AK-47 with full round banana clips.
I prefer HK-Supermarkt
Zhagadska
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:05 am
#33
shop smart....shop S-mart.
Jaguarrr wrote:
yimaz wrote:
A.Contraband should not be sold on vendors; it’s illegal and as such should not be so easily available, nor as easily identifiable by the authorities.
You dont go to K-Mart to buy a fully automatic AK-47 with full round banana clips.
I prefer HK-Supermarkt
yimaz
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:11 am
#34
Zhagadska wrote:
shop smart....shop S-mart.
Jaguarrr wrote:
yimaz wrote:
A.Contraband should not be sold on vendors; it’s illegal and as such should not be so easily available, nor as easily identifiable by the authorities.
You dont go to K-Mart to buy a fully automatic AK-47 with full round banana clips.
I prefer HK-Supermarkt
S-mart does have really, really nice boom sticks.
gpthree
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:11 am
#35
B.
I dont trust them to come up with a fun system to support A.
SpinningCloud
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:11 am
#36
I don't really give a rat's behind about a players convienience in this regard.
What I WANT is for contraband to be exactly that...contraband and illegal and having it sold in public shops is just plain content-negating.
Next step should be for key words spammed, displayed criminal titles, and trading in front of law enforcement to bring down the wrath of the law.
What we do is ILLEGAL folks, let's get it treated as such across the board.
chance420
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:14 am
#37
MojoRein wrote:Bit of a split vote from me.on Bazzare = ARandom vendor in a shop in the usual corolag shanty town = AMall in a Imperial / Neutral town = AMall / Shop in a rebel town = BMy logic is that it is the empire who declared these things illegal, sliced goods / spices should be the demain or rebels and "dodgy neutrrals" A much better way of doing this should be actually preventing imperials from using it, rather than the joke punishments there are now.I even get the stormtrooper role players from our server asking me to slice their guns / armour, I always then play the innocent as they always try to roleplay getting me to do it.... but it just feels wrong!Errrr kinda ranty above and not such an issue on most servers where the imperials need all the help they can get, but on Chim for over a year we were very much THE server with the imperials in dominance and even now it is about even.
Not to derail this poll but was it not stated that in the future Rebel NPC's will be scanning for contraband in Rebel "Static" towns?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Just curious as to why the Rebel would really want to promote death-sticks or any other contraband when it could be a hazard to the health of their fellow Rebels.
Zhagadska
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:16 am
#38
lotta posts, but only one more vote:
26 for A
4 for B
just so peeps can keep track.
Qojan
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:19 am
#39
Very tough question. My main sorce of income now adays is my smuggler vendor, and no I dont sale alot of spice, its clamps, knives, WUKS and AUKS that pour off my vendor, my second is the WSI slice for. So that would hurt there also. I no longer wear my Master Smuggler tag as I dont slice for the public anymore. We should still have a way to sale or stuff, maybebeable to add our services also.
The thing I fear is that if not done right (Look at SOE's track record with us, auto-pull anyone?) It could kill us as a profession. If they make it to hard to get and keep spice and sliced gear what good are we? If a WS or AS cant sale pre-sliced stuff are they going to bother coming to us at all? and if it too hard to get for the average player they will go without. I'm sorry but I just CAN NOT and DO NOT TRUST SOE to do this right. So my choice will have to be B, better the way it is than to let them screwthis one up.
That being said, I will support what ever the outcome of this is.
"They can have my laser knives when they pry em out of my cold dead hand"