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As a roleplaying thing it would be nice if we could form some sort of crime syndicates. Most people play smugglers because they want to be smugglers. I know thats almost or is a rather stupid statement. Bear with me. However, some of us play them because smuggler is the only criminal profesion in the game. Hence its the closest to the fringe type of profesion there is.

I play on the Valcyn server. But on many servers I think there may be people who would like this. So here is some stuff to think on. Ill take advioce and at least try this on my server.

First you need to have those that will be in your crimeinal empire. This can be friends, mutliple guilds, or any of the above you can think of.

Then you establish the beginning "turf". Maybe a player city or a NPC city. You can say you work for Valarian, jabba, or your own empire that you make up. We need to have these leaders of the various criminal groups get togetehr out of character to work out the starting boundaries. then we can some turf wars for control of these areas. Maybe if you want to make it really interesteing those agree to it can say if they lose they cant slice in that city.

Maybe Coronet is off limits this week? If caught there by one of the opposing sides you have to accept the duel and fight your way out of it. Or run.... (feign death lol ). Of course this only applies to those that wish to participate. We could list in our bios which of us are participating so we know who to roleplay with.

On my server I ahve agreat group of guys who roleplay the Imperial troopers all the time. They could play into this as well. Could be they show up to investigate a spice operation...

Any ideas this is an open forum on the subject. Let me know what we can do. And of course we can talk to those that participate on the bounty hunters thing thats similar to this. Maybe have agreed hunts on some smugglers.

Realize that the only Real roleplaying that will ever be done in this game will be by things we initiate. The GCW is not roleplay. its is multi player combat. We have to take our hand in the system and make it come alive.

Masal Master Smuggler Minerva,Naboo Valcyn

As a roleplaying thing it would be nice if we could form some sort of crime syndicates. Most people play smugglers because they want to be smugglers. I know thats almost or is a rather stupid statement. Bear with me. However, some of us play them because smuggler is the only criminal profesion in the game. Hence its the closest to the fringe type of profesion there is.

I play on the Valcyn server. But on many servers I think there may be people who would like this. So here is some stuff to think on. Ill take advioce and at least try this on my server.

First you need to have those that will be in your crimeinal empire. This can be friends, mutliple guilds, or any of the above you can think of.

Then you establish the beginning "turf". Maybe a player city or a NPC city. You can say you work for Valarian, jabba, or your own empire that you make up. We need to have these leaders of the various criminal groups get togetehr out of character to work out the starting boundaries. then we can some turf wars for control of these areas. Maybe if you want to make it really interesteing those agree to it can say if they lose they cant slice in that city.

Maybe Coronet is off limits this week? If caught there by one of the opposing sides you have to accept the duel and fight your way out of it. Or run.... (feign death lol ). Of course this only applies to those that wish to participate. We could list in our bios which of us are participating so we know who to roleplay with.

On my server I ahve agreat group of guys who roleplay the Imperial troopers all the time. They could play into this as well. Could be they show up to investigate a spice operation...

Any ideas this is an open forum on the subject. Let me know what we can do. And of course we can talk to those that participate on the bounty hunters thing thats similar to this. Maybe have agreed hunts on some smugglers.

Realize that the only Real roleplaying that will ever be done in this game will be by things we initiate. The GCW is not roleplay. its is multi player combat. We have to take our hand in the system and make it come alive.

Masal Master Smuggler Minerva,Naboo Valcyn

This is a great idea. would take alot of work by those involved to get going, but it could work in theory. Though finding enough people on each server to go along with the idea maybe the trickiest part. How would you know someone is slicing...it would take alot of honesty by the players themselves. and call me pessimistic, but in this day in age...not alot of people would admit to slicing something or selling spices in the town thats off limits if a say a master BH is confronting them and they're only novice smuggler...know what i mean? but the idea is great, and i would do it in a second.

All i can say is that it has been tried before and failed. Until Sony gives us some quests that result in situations were only a smuggler can sell what ever the desirable item is and once bought becomes untradeable to anyone but the purchaser.....and brands the purchaser as friendly to smugglers.......(the item would have to be very desireable for this to work).....there is not much fun in an underground...it just can't work the way it is now for any length of time....gets boring once you realize you aren't really smuggling anything. We need quests DEVs', similar to the above mentioned approach for items that only we can have access to and sell...give us something to smuggle.

Well, in theory...

We can only hope that participate are the kind that want to do this anyway. Those that dont want to participatewill not be attacked, or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable.

This is a voluntary thing. Hence the reason to put some sort of note in the beginning of our bios. That way we can identify those that want to play along. Possible note the name of the crime lord they serve etc. That way people know how to react. Remember, I dont want to make people leave their guilds for this. this is something each individual can do aside from their regular guild activities. Or be in no guild at all for that matter.

Personally I will be working for Jabba. Id like to see someone else step and work for Valarian. So any smugglers on the Valcyn server want to help with this? And remember, you dont have to be a smuggler to join in on this. Jabba had his thugs that protected his interests.... Boba Fett was an independent but he took a lot of work for Jabba.

Masal Master Smuggler Valcyn