Smuggler Archive
Thread: Some opinions from a New Smuggler on current issues.
I've been pvping with only master smuggler as my combat skills and suprisingly I've done very well. While most battles I end up getting killed , I survive long enough to help my team and/or make someone say "wow he was tough for a master smuggler"
Now the issues that seam most prominent on the board. Providing content that includes actually smuggling. You have to understand that devs wanted a criminal eliment in the game, and instead of calling us "criminals" they called us smugglers because it was more star wars like. You also have to understand the smuggling in star wars mostly takes place in space and until the recent release of JTL the devs didnt have many options. While I can agree that alot of ideas that pose themselves on these boards are feasable and should be done , the ones that involve actually smuggling would be almost impossible to do and if possible could take a long time to get working
I few ideas that I belive very easily implimented.
1. Being able to fly from planet to planet cost free. You can fraud terminals , you should be able to fraud tickets
2. Being able to fly yourself and a group you are with into citys that you have been banned from.
3. limited pistols mods. Not enough to make pistoleer worthless , but a little boost. In the underworld line +2speed and +2 accuracy in each box including master.
4. Our own weapon. (I have a feeling we will get this for cu)
5. Make bomb droids callable in combat
Flatlinedmemory wrote:
I for one think this is a great profession. While it isnt perfect, it provides alot of benefits. A constant source of income,slicing is very convinient and IMO the best pistol specials in the game.
I've been pvping with only master smuggler as my combat skills and suprisingly I've done very well. While most battles I end up getting killed , I survive long enough to help my team and/or make someone say "wow he was tough for a master smuggler"
Now the issues that seam most prominent on the board. Providing content that includes actually smuggling. You have to understand that devs wanted a criminal eliment in the game, and instead of calling us "criminals" they called us smugglers because it was more star wars like. You also have to understand the smuggling in star wars mostly takes place in space and until the recent release of JTL the devs didnt have many options. While I can agree that alot of ideas that pose themselves on these boards are feasable and should be done , the ones that involve actually smuggling would be almost impossible to do and if possible could take a long time to get working
I few ideas that I belive very easily implimented.
1. Being able to fly from planet to planet cost free. You can fraud terminals , you should be able to fraud tickets
2. Being able to fly yourself and a group you are with into citys that you have been banned from.
3. limited pistols mods. Not enough to make pistoleer worthless , but a little boost. In the underworld line +2speed and +2 accuracy in each box including master.
4. Our own weapon. (I have a feeling we will get this for cu)
5. Make bomb droids callable in combat
Sorry to disagree but I don't see how it was reasonable to call us Smugglers because they didn't want to call us Criminals.
I also don't see that actual smuggling is so difficult they couldn't figure out how to do it in two years. If you look at the actual smuggling type ideas presented on this board over the past 20 months you can see that many of them are not that difficult and in fact many of the components are already in place.
While space was obviously a part of smuggling in the movies it didn't ALL take place there. That there were ground components was implied and just because there were not many scenes related to smuggling on the ground doesn't mean they didn't occur. I don't recall seeing massive numbers of innocent animals being slaughtered and thier lairs destroyed in any of the movies either... hmmm?
As to the ideas. Most of these have been suggested before.
1. Slicing ticket vendors has been suggested numerous times but with private spaceship travel it isn't all that important any more.
2. Landing yourself and groups in places other than starship terms has been suggested. Banned cities I consider a subset of this and would only be useful to a small number of us I think. Smuggling players though is a valid and useful idea and there are many suggestions surrounding this basic idea.
3. Pistol mods have been discussed over and over again. Fact is that for a Smuggler to be effective with a pistol you need a good part of Pistoleer. Many of us have Master Pistoleer as well as Master Smuggler and I don't think the devs will stack mods like that. The CURB will totally change allof this anyway so suggestions like this will have to wait to see what the CURB will do....or not do.
4. Again, our own weapon has been suggested over and over again over the years. Personally I don't see that a Smuggler specific pistol is going to make me put down my DE-10, krayt FWG5 or republic blaster. Who knows though...and we may see something with the CURB.
5. Bomb droids in combat? Sure, why not.
The real meat of our profession still needs to be smuggling and I don't buy into your suggestion that it's impossible and our name was given to us simply because they didn't have a better idea.