Fines
Fines
Is there a formula for the amount you are fined if caught trading illegal goods. I wonder because the cost seems extremely high for trading a 2 X distance route. In IST trading weapons almost 700k fine and i think couple of million for trading Narcotics. Seems a little stiff, and excessive. I traded 300 turns and came back earning maybe about 700k.... after all the fines i paid...... Personally thinks it should be looked into, and loosing turns if you don't have money, seems very excessive too, especially if you are learning the game. I traded level 9 ports and maybe a level 8 port...... but still the amount of times i got caught and the amount of fines seems to be very prohibitive...... Yet i do remember trading a super route where the amount of money trading narcotics and getting caught was not prohibitive. Just wonders if there is a formula for this...... or is it random or what.......... the amount of the fines
You are right Boo, this should be addressed. The fines for getting caught is a little excessive as it happens a LOT if you are not in an underground ship and is a little pricey. I believe the formula should be changed to half of the value you would normally make on one trade of it for that distance.
-
- Newbie Spam Artist
- Posts: 648
- Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:20 pm
- Location: Wisconsin
- Contact:
From:
http://lotus.smrealms.de/?page=formulas
Number of illegal goods at any port. (Port level + 3) - legal goods The base chance of getting searched when entering a port is 15%. For each illegal good that the port buys or sells, it is decreased by 4% to a minimum of 3% chance for a search. Smuggling ships reduce this further by another 4%, so you have a -1% chance of getting searched if you are at a port that buys/sells all illegal items and are in a smuggling ship. Max. experience per trade = ((INT(Cargo Holds/30)) +1) x 2) x Distance. e.g. Alskant Trade Master (INT(400/30)) +1 x 2 = 28 x the distance in sectors to the next port that, buys the item if this port is selling it, or sells the item if this port is buying it. So if this port is selling Lux and the closest port that buys it is 3 sectors away you can get up to 84 exp for that trade.
http://lotus.smrealms.de/?page=formulas
Number of illegal goods at any port. (Port level + 3) - legal goods The base chance of getting searched when entering a port is 15%. For each illegal good that the port buys or sells, it is decreased by 4% to a minimum of 3% chance for a search. Smuggling ships reduce this further by another 4%, so you have a -1% chance of getting searched if you are at a port that buys/sells all illegal items and are in a smuggling ship. Max. experience per trade = ((INT(Cargo Holds/30)) +1) x 2) x Distance. e.g. Alskant Trade Master (INT(400/30)) +1 x 2 = 28 x the distance in sectors to the next port that, buys the item if this port is selling it, or sells the item if this port is buying it. So if this port is selling Lux and the closest port that buys it is 3 sectors away you can get up to 84 exp for that trade.
...... cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.