Smuggler Archive
Thread: Stop Slicing?
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WilyWelshWeasel
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:29 am
#1
Hi guys, whilst I'm a very newbie smuggler I thought I would had my 2 cents in as well.
Rather than a mass protest (as mentioned elsewhere) that may get people banned. Why don't we ask ALL smugglers across ALL servers to stop slicing.
If anyone asks us for a slice we will refuse, politely, and explain why we cannot help them.
After a few weeks with NO new sliced weapons being introduced into the economy Iwould think we will get a lot of people very annoyed at not being able to replace their sliced weapons. We can then ask them to join is in complaining to SoE that they MUST fix the profession and they must do it soon.
Apologies if this has been stated already elsewhere, but I think it might possibly work. I'd appreciate everyone's thoughts.
MC
Rajtinka
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:35 am
#3
I'm in .. for the next week while im still smuggler... but ... i have not sliced for anyone but guildmates since they rebroke crates.. so no one will miss me 
TarynGuinn
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:35 am
#4
Ok, so i need a new trick for this one. that was my tactic for speeding up our revamp. i only slice for myself, and a few key friends, and have for quite some time. also, how bout FP, we stop selling. granted its gonna cut in on our profits. but hey, alot of people would deffiantely take notice.
WilyWelshWeasel
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:37 am
#5
Ok, so it seems like my idea isn't so silly after all.
Phew!
Let's make it visible though, we all wear our Smuggler tags at all times to hopefully increase the people who ask for slices. We could create a quick macro that spams back a standard decline to anyone who wants us slicing.
Who else is with me?
WilyWelshWeasel
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:39 am
#6
yes let's stop ALL smuggler related events. Let's almost take ourselves out of the game. Given that Star Wars SHOULD have a large underworld element I'm sure we'd make out presence (or lack of) felt very quickly.
RogueCloudwalker
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:42 am
#7
WilyWelshWeasel wrote:
yes let's stop ALL smuggler related events. Let's almost take ourselves out of the game. Given that Star Wars SHOULD have a large underworld element I'm sure we'd make out presence (or lack of) felt very quickly.
I'm just scared the Devs would finally go "Aha! The Smugglers are finally quiting! Lets give their leftovers to the other professions!" Now everyone can smuggle with a lowercase s! Slicing to the smiths, spices to Chefs, Dirty Fighting to Pistoleer and throw away Underworld. Now everyone can partake of the smuggler goodness in JTL!
Thats what I'm scared of.
DrevenStrobe
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:42 am
#8
I'll point this out again, just like I've done every time a "strike" has been proposed.
The flaw in your logic is that you assume people actually **NEED** our services, which they don't.
Smugglers provide two services to the community at large: Spices and Slicing.
Spices can be pretty much forgotten about with the use of food and doc buffs, and they're not used that much anyway...so it wouldn't be a big deal if the spice flow suddenly stopped across the board.
Slicing is easily replaced by the use of powerups. Not only that, but there's enough WS / Smugglers or AS / Smugglers out there, or WS and AS with Smuggler alts, that sliced item vendors would still get stocked regardless.
Then there's the issue that there's no way in hell that you'd ever get 100% of the actual Smugglers, whose main accounts are Smugglers to go along with it. There would inevitably be the guys who raise their prices and keep slicing for the public just to make an extra cred or two.
So, while your heart may be in the right place. Putting it into effect would be pretty much impossible.
TarynGuinn
Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:52 am
#9
Oneproblem: the majority of the players in game don't even read the forums. the forumsare viewed as being a place to flame others. I see alot of smugglers on my server, as well as on other servers, who've never posted here, talked to many who've never even read anything here. So, we'd have to get the word out in game as well as on here.
DigiDante
Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:50 pm
#11
I would never protest because it would never accomplish anything.
A good 1/2 of all crafters have a guildmate or an alt who is a slicer. Never will you be able to get all smugglers to stop slicing, like myself. I love to slice. I would not stop doing so.
Sorry
A good 1/2 of all crafters have a guildmate or an alt who is a slicer. Never will you be able to get all smugglers to stop slicing, like myself. I love to slice. I would not stop doing so.
Sorry
dlc3007
Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:57 pm
#12
DigiDante wrote:
A good 1/2 of all crafters have a guildmate or an alt who is a slicer. Never will you be able to get all smugglers to stop slicing, like myself. I love to slice. I would not stop doing so.
I have to agree with you. I will, however, be upping my prices considerably if this stupid "fix" goes live.
yimaz
Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:13 pm
#13
Sadlymost people will just go to the WS/Smuggler vendors to buy weapons or a slicer looking to make a buck.But I do agree with the idea and will stop slicing for Bounty Hunters just on principle. I'm also re-thinking my position on Smugglers being added to the BH terminals at this point I want little or nothing to do with them.
Message Edited by yimaz on 02-19-2005 05:14 PM
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