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Quasi-CtC for the traders/pirates?
This provides a good way for people to make money, and something interesting for the pirates to do. Let me try to write what I see:
A trader pays a large amount of money (~20k, for instance) for some valuable cargo at some distant port (in grey/nationspace.) About 50 minutes later, that cargo is loaded onto an NPC transport and departs to Dau Senate. Depending on the "value" of this transport, NPC(?) and player pirates attack and attempt to capture this cargo and sell it at Corvus Hold. If the cargo successfully gets home on the transport, the trader who bought it gets 5 times his money back (the above trader would get 100k,) if it is "escorted" to Corvus by another player who captured it from the tranport the pirate gets 3/4 that value, and if it is taken home by an upstanding citizen (to Dau) they get 1/2 the money the trader would have gotten (the trader gets the other half) and considerable standing gain.
Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers!
-:sigma.SB
A trader pays a large amount of money (~20k, for instance) for some valuable cargo at some distant port (in grey/nationspace.) About 50 minutes later, that cargo is loaded onto an NPC transport and departs to Dau Senate. Depending on the "value" of this transport, NPC(?) and player pirates attack and attempt to capture this cargo and sell it at Corvus Hold. If the cargo successfully gets home on the transport, the trader who bought it gets 5 times his money back (the above trader would get 100k,) if it is "escorted" to Corvus by another player who captured it from the tranport the pirate gets 3/4 that value, and if it is taken home by an upstanding citizen (to Dau) they get 1/2 the money the trader would have gotten (the trader gets the other half) and considerable standing gain.
Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers!
-:sigma.SB
Sounds okay, but a little overcomplicated. I'll leave it to better minds to simplify it.
sounds like a good idea.
Would be fun.
I like the idea, although perhaps make it so the transport goes on a "Trade Tour" where it has to make one complete lap through the outside ring of systems, starting at whatever station the trader funded the tour from. this would justify where all that magical money came from, and would make the large reward a bit more sensible (also, if it turns out pullin that route off is extremely hard to pull off, you could drop the initial cost to start it off down)
is it just me or would these ships be way easy to blow up?
like are they regular atlas flying npc's, or the transports we see in ctc now?
like are they regular atlas flying npc's, or the transports we see in ctc now?
Good idea. It would be interesting to see the NPC traders get a little more use as supposed to just being bored player target practice and scrap metal.