Smuggler Archive
Thread: Taaaxii!!! Idea 3
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SnowJoke
Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:36 am
#1
I remember GreenMarine mentioned his idea of Smuggling away would be that Smugglers could basically ring for a personal shuttle to take away the contraband.
I can envision a line of Smugglers at Dath's outposts screaming - "taking your Rancors off-planet, only XYZ creds!"
Eurgh 
Would it not be a better idea to have Smuggler quests, to make friends with certain people who are only available for certain regions.
For example, you do a special quest for someone in Jabba's palace, and he can guarantee you safe passage through any TatooineShuttle Port on the left half of the planet, as well as Mos Entha Star Port, provided you are coming from Corellia or Talus, for example.
Of course, nothing is guaranteed, and your contacts could randomly contact you with demands..." OK, I can only keep Mos Entha "safe" for you if you pay me 15,000c" or demand a cut of all profit coming from jobs through "their" zone. Failure to keep your contacts happy could result in bounties, or the loss of their services, or even both.
This way Smugglers could :-
- Specialise on taking things off of only one planet.
- Make use of their Underworld skills - "No I can't pay you that now, but you can have half the profit from the next job insrtead of 35%"
- feel like they were part of organised crime rather than a fleshy replacement of the silver ticket droids.
Message Edited by SnowJoke on 07-03-2004 06:42 PM
KaernLegorah
Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:44 pm
#2
I like what you're trying to accomplish with this idea, but I'm not sure about the details of the idea itself. I've gotta think on this one some more 
SnowJoke
Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:49 pm
#3
OK - if that is not such a good idea - maybe we need to keep one contact on each planet happy with us, and he will provide us with special Magseals, that we can set permissions on. We ask him for a "big" Magseal and set the permission to Alf the Creature Handler, who puts his baby rancor in it. Then he gives it to us but we "don't have permission to access that container", we move it with our higher ability to dodge scans, then we give it back to Alf who pops it open and takes away his Rancor. Maybe the size of Magseal and therefor holding capacity could be linked to Smuggler level, so a Novice can only put objects in lots of little crates, increasing the chances of being found, because more of the stuff you have is contraband, whereas a Master can get a bigger crate, for different, and larger amounts of things.
I actually like this idea better than my first one... Of course it's all a pointless discussion if most smugglers are happy with GM's choice...are you? 
and do you have other ideas to add?
and do you have other ideas to add?
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