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Axianda The Royal
Fleet Admiral
Terra Squadron
Joined: November 20, 2001
Posts: 4273
From: Axianda
|  Posted: 2003-12-07 14:30
Ok i've heard a lot of talking about blackmarkets and stuff so thought i post my idea for them.
The blackmarkets are stations that appear blue * friendly to ALL until you shoot em *
These stations are like starports to planets except THEY HURT!!.
All factions can sell/buy at one of these stations but factions dont have to be friendly to eachother around one, this prevents it from being " to easy "
Now these stations are outlawed by each of the factions goverments...
Theyr ancestors were sent into the outer reaches of space never to be heard from again until now.
The outer reaches are infested whit Pirate fleets.... unlike the ICC however they never managed to get a central goverment so they are " not nice "
The fleets are AI.... make it so that AI ships only give 50% of normal prestige to prevent farming.
To get to a station one will need to get PAST these fleets either by force or by being a sneaky devil.
Once you are near on of these Blue stations they will reload/repair you and when you "orbit" them you can buy/sell parts.
Selling parts will get you 10-20% better sale price than a local friendly starport however is it worths the risk?
Buying here will also mean 10-20% higher prices.... you will however be able to mount em 
Faction tech excluded ofcourse.
Tell me what ya think about it.
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UnknownWarrior
Grand Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: July 18, 2002
Posts: 724
From: North Carolina, USA
| Posted: 2003-12-07 14:59
Not bad
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_x$witchBladex_ [1.480 Fanboy]
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Joined: February 26, 2003
Posts: 849
From: Upstate New York
| Posted: 2003-12-07 15:05
Very good idea....to add, i think that the fleets should include ALL of the factions ships working together to make it harder...maybe groups of 5 or more...anyways VERY good idea...
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Thrie
Fleet Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: October 28, 2002
Posts: 760
| Posted: 2003-12-07 16:12
i say make it 10% prestige gain...
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Evil Tom
Vice Admiral
Joined: August 19, 2002
Posts: 76
From: Birmingham, UK
| Posted: 2003-12-07 19:40
perhaps...some form of contraband should be added....like as a high price comodity that could be traded through planets, but if you're caught taking it by AI authority ships (say ships that police UGTO, ICC and K'luth borders) then they will attack you, or disable your ship and take it off you with a hefty fine...or something like that.
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Tiffy Rando
Grand Admiral
Joined: January 19, 2003
Posts: 354
From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2003-12-07 23:59
well that would be nice if ICC and UGTO and K'luth had borders...
oh by the way, in this game YOU ARE THE POLICE lol so, here's the Idea revised
... maybe the new AI civvie ships (those are going to be in the patch eventually) should go to these black stations to buy Illegal duty-free contraband... like errmmm Bran Muffins
anyway, if you catch them at the station, you are allowed to open fire on them, but BE WARNED, the Black Marketeers don't like people lighting each other up at their station... they will open fire on BOTH parties
(all hell breaks loose)
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Axianda The Royal
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Terra Squadron
Joined: November 20, 2001
Posts: 4273
From: Axianda
| Posted: 2003-12-08 09:05
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On 2003-12-07 19:40, Tarkin Larson wrote:
perhaps...some form of contraband should be added....like as a high price comodity that could be traded through planets, but if you're caught taking it by AI authority ships (say ships that police UGTO, ICC and K'luth borders) then they will attack you, or disable your ship and take it off you with a hefty fine...or something like that.
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Sounds fun
Anyone wanna have Gaifen kebab on theyr menu? 
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Pentara
Cadet
Joined: April 20, 2002
Posts: 327
| Posted: 2003-12-09 14:47
For goods to be in demand, players must want them. If you create stuff to trade with planets and other ai entities, it would be a merchant trade system, but not a black market system. The black market is trading to other players things they want. What sort of things do players want? Well atm ship equipment, with the patch, inf too (but for friendlies only). The only thing I see that you can add, short of unproducable equipment, is maybe a way to manufacture specialty equipment by say, collecting the required resources and then selling them to a manufacturing plant on a planet which will then build the item for you. Each faction only has 1 of these plants on their home planet producing these items, so the only way to get these enemy specialty items is to capture their home planet, obtain the required resources, and get them to the plant before the planet is re-captured, or trade for them. That would be a good black market system.
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Axianda The Royal
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From: Axianda
| Posted: 2003-12-09 15:21
True but if you make it that Metals earn you 10% more of the buy price than you CAN get some cash out of it...
to get cash in a nice ammount however you will need to fly transport/freighters resulting in a giant leap to the danger zone
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Bigwolfe
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Joined: October 16, 2003
Posts: 156
From: Bland County
| Posted: 2003-12-11 10:41
if they allow them, they need to be undestoryable...OR no pres gain, cuz people nomatter wat the pres gain is, they will just sit around in the MV attacking and destorying them, They of the combat damage pres gains you would get from it, they need to be undestorable or no pres gains from it
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$yTHe {C?}
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Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2003-12-11 13:01
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On 2003-12-07 14:30, Axianda *XO* wrote:
Now these stations are outlawed by each of the factions goverments...
Theyr ancestors were sent into the outer reaches of space never to be heard from again until now.
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Been playin a bit too much StarCraft Ax?
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Axianda The Royal
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Posts: 4273
From: Axianda
| Posted: 2003-12-11 16:14
who me? nah
it sounded good... these ppl were Originally the same ppl as where the ICC come from only they did not accept the new ICC goverment so the went into deepspace
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