Smuggler Archive

Just so you know in advance, this is not a thread to come up with ideas for our profession. Hell, so many good ideas have been posted (and unnoticed by Devs) on this forum since launch that any new idea I could come up with would most likely be something that someone has already posted about before. This is basically just my vision of what I would like to be as a Smuggler in SWG.

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I want to smuggle spice, not make it. I'm not a drug dealer, nor do I work in a crack house. I want to get missions from Jabba or some other Crime Lord to take his spice from one point to another. I want that mission to be very dangerous, meaning I can be attacked and killed along the way, or at least incapped with a chance that my cargo can be taken. I want to have skills that will help me evade being detected, and skills that will help me escape death by the skin of my teeth. I want a failed smuggling mission to have nasty consequences, from losing faction for a minor mission, to losing faction and having the Crime Lord sending player bounty hunters after me for failing a major one. I want to be tempted to steal my own cargo if it's valuable enough and I want to chance the consequences.

I want there to be real illegal items in the galaxy. Something that other players want to have, but have to hire me to smuggle them to their location. I want it to be dangerous to do so, and I want to charge a hefty price to do it. After all, I am risking my skin, I want to be well paid. If I die during a mission, I want it to hurt. I want it to be very important to me to complete my mission, because failure is going to cost me dearly.

I want to be able to slice, and I want it to be a big deal. I want slicing to actually take a while to be able to do, and be difficult to do right. No mindless clicking. I want to be able to choose what attributes I ammodifying, and how much I am modifying it,because I am skilled enough to know what I am doing. No random crap here.I want to have to think about what I'm doing. I don't want everyone and their brother to have sliced gear. It should be something a Smuggler does for his own equipment because he needs it to elude the cops and survive, or something someone paid a Smuggler a lot of money to do because it's time consuming and difficult. I want to have to hide my illegally altered guns and armor while going through town because it's illegal and it could get me killed if the cops found it on me. I want other players to hire me to smuggle their expensive sliced items (if they can find someone willing to spend the time, energy, and resources to slice them) to Dathomir or wherever they plan to use them because they'd definitely get caught with them, and only a Smuggler worth his salt could get it there without being caught.

I want to work for Jabba. Not the Rebels or the Empire. Criminal Factions are sorely needed, and long overdue.

I want other Crime Lords who are in competition with my boss to want to see me fail my missions, and will go to great lengths to see that I do. Hey, it's not an easy life, but you can't beat the pay.

I want to be able to shoot faster and be more accurate with a pistol than someone with Pistols IV. If I choose to be a Pistoleer as well, I should be deadly. I want a Smuggler only weapon, just because it would be cool. No other reason. I'd love to be able to wear my pistol in a holster at my hip, instead of carrying it in my hand all the time.

I want to have a ship with hidden cargo storage for when I am smuggling something. I want to have to fly my ship to my destination. Basically the"Travel" option at a starship terminal wouldn't be available when I am on a smuggling mission.I want the Empire to try and stop me in space to board my ship and check for contraband. I also want to be able to try and shoot my way out of the situation if I think I can get away with it in one piece. Basically I want being a Smuggler to be a dangerous but lucrative vocation for those who are good at it.

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Now, I know that other people aren't going to agree with my vision of the Smuggler profession. I'd actually like to hear what other people would like us to be. So reply here and give us your vision, if you feel like it.

did i just experience deja vu?

again?

InVictus Kell - Smuggler for Life
Started: Beta 2
Retired : 1-27-06

It's been fun...

Ummmm. Yeah.

You pretty much said everything I want for Smugglers except:

Dayasi Vo'Boda CEO of SCUM PA.
Founders of Agrilatia in the Agrilat Swamps Of Corellia (Intrepid).
Taking Scum and Villainy to a new Level to Serve YOU.
Remember: SCUM does it dirtyAnother Horseman of the Smuggling Apocolypse

Aelik Orrigo: Smuggler, Pilot, and Ranger. Kettemoor
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