Let’s talk about smuggling

1.) Makebinding:
Just a skill to make bindings. Smugglers would know their way around them fairly well, being able to escape fairly quickly from them, so it would make sense for some smugglers to make some bindings.

2.) Fakesale:
Allow players to fakesale an item to spicers/other players. They would need the spice, and if they failed, then they would end up giving the real item to person, if they succeeded, the item the player/spicer received would be a copy(generated item into $n ‘s inventory), and would disappear in 30 minutes(could use a cookie, and restrict the fakesale cookie to a immortal create spice that can be generated). Smugglers should be able to directly cheat someone out of an item, without stealing it, so the player can’t find them a few seconds later and kick their ass.

3.) Breakdown:
Allow a master smuggler to break down an item into some components that were used in the item. like if it was a repeater, it would break down into one of each of the required items, though all gems will be lost in the process.

4.) Reroute:
If A master smuggler uses this, they get additional more speed and hyperspeed for a short period of time. kinda like how navigator gives you the ability to travel farther, this would give you the ability to travel faster.

5.) Sticky fingers:
Allow a player to steal one item from a vendor per day. This wouldn’t be able to be used for blueprints, but it could be used on player owned shops(just something to raise the desirability of the class).

6.) DisguiseItem:
Allow a smuggler to change the look(name) of an item. This would be useful for a smuggler doing crimes on a planet, since it would be much harder to see what they are using.

7.) Mask:
Allows a smuggler to mask another player through applying the disguise to the other player.

Not sure if these are good, Just figured I would put in a few suggestions. I know that some of this would need to be coded, not sure if that mattered or not though.[/quote:jjk6daq5]
A lot of those are illogical or just plain idiotic. For one, breakdown as a SMUGGLING skill? "Fuck no" sums it up; engineering (or science) if anything. Ditto for makebinding (but engineering or BH, not science). Some others (e.g. "mask") have been suggested before–being able to disguise other players is a logical extension of being able to disguise yourself (probably easier to do, from an IRL standpoint).

HOWEVER, there are a few that are genuinely unique. Fakesale and sticky fingers, while unique, are far too open to abuse for implementation, IMO. Fakesale is almost designed for it, considering there’s no "sale" system for use with other players, so its only use would be for abusing pawn shops. Sticky fingers, on the other hand, could MAYBE–MAYBE–be put in if it were limited to, say… 1 theft per shop, not 1 per day. If you found an active, competent engineer, you could be "making" upwards of 100,000 per day, near instantly.

Now, you’ll probably notice I’ve left out two: reroute and mask. I’d say "no" to reroute on the same basis as breakdown and makebinding–it should be a piloting feat, it anything; the only "piloting" feat I’d like to see for smuggling is something that lets them jump to hyperspace closer to gravitational fields than other pilots (100 units closer, or some such). As for mask… I saved it for the end because I’m 110% behind that. It could potentially be abused, yes, but no more so than "makecontainer" can–for the exact same use.[/quote:jjk6daq5]

Well, you could have a time limit on how long masking works, have it like an affect, where you are disguised by someone else, for so many rounds.

As for makebinding, I was thinking about it for engineering, but look how many engineering skills we already have. Honestly, some engineer skills should be other class skills in my opinion.

Anyhow, I can give reason for breakdown. People see it all the time in movies, where the badass can take apart a gun and stuff, so when I looked at it, I was thinking that breakdown would normally suit the personality of a smuggler, where he could steel your weapon, and break it down in front of you so you know you can’t use it anymore. limiting it to weapons would make sense, and when you think about it, a smuggler should know his way around a weapon as well as an engineer does.

As for fakesale, there is a sale system in, you just don’t directly see it constantly. it happens when you trade a droid. it says the amount it will give to the other player, and take from you. with that same system, you could sellspice/fakesale spice, which even though it could be abused, if it was high end, it would be logical since a smuggler is usually in it for himself.

the 24 hour wait period is something I wasn’t too keen on, since I usually play an engy, or at least have a shop, maybe 1 item per vendor is better, since there is limited amount of vendors(for the most part anyways)

Reroute… well, I wouldn’t mind it going piloting if it was in, but I was thinking smuggling because if you are pirating a ship, changing the power levels of speed/hyperspeed would be extremely useful.

Yeah… I dont think that they called Han Solo a smuggler because he was constantly walking at the spaceports with hundreds of jungle machetes in his dewback backpack…

It should have something to with flying cargo and stuff. Illegal cargo you can buy from some planets and sp on… And transfer those custom agents into space and orbits…

Oh yeah. And how about chance of getting busted?[/quote:3g4cnssy]
An emphatic +1
Smuggling should be far less ground-based than it is. In EU, it was rare for smugglers to even bother with traditional ports of entry(with guards capable of giving smuggling EXP for, you know, smuggling)… they would normally just get through system and/or orbital policing and defenses, then fly to some sekrit rendezvous point on the planet to meet up with the person they’re delivering to.