A game of survival, trade and exploration in the universe of Fallen London
Selling Romantic Literature in London
IHNIWTR
Posts: 346
1/28/2015
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I like that the Approved versions of this commodity can now be sold in London - but will it be possible to try and give players some incentives to try and smuggle it in by making the regular variety sellable at a better price?
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WormApotheote
Posts: 725
1/29/2015
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Zee! wrote:
Wait, smuggling in Sunlight (for 400e each - box guaranteed to be returned), Red Honey (999e each) and whatever the Blind Bruiser wants you to carry isn't lucrative enough? 
EDIT: Also, stuff in the Empire of Hands & London suggest you'll be able to become a Spirifage (collector of souls) at some point.
edited by Zee! on 1/29/2015
Mild nitpick: Spirifage is the collecting/selling of souls, a spirifer is the person :P
edited by WormApotheote on 1/29/2015
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IHNIWTR
Posts: 346
1/29/2015
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the smuggling ship costs the least out all of the available ones, and yet due to storage limitations it has the shortest range out of all of them. In addition, all of the high cost smuggling options you mentioned can only be obtained at a considerable distance from London. So I'd like for there to be a shorter range option for smuggling that would still make sense for new players and encourage the use of the Cutter.
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Zee!
Posts: 96
1/29/2015
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IHNIWTR wrote:
I think that captains using the Cutter should either automatically pass the customs checks in London and/or they should have access to a special "black market" store that gives better prices for regular goods - that would make smuggling using the Cutter worth the trade
edited by IHNIWTR on 1/29/2015
With a fast engine, you can sneak past Excise/Customs entirely by burning out your "SAY" at a nearby port and gunning your engine for London. If your SAY isn't up, your ship won't get searched. You also pointed out how much more affordable the Cutter is versus the other vessels, and it is giving you at least +10 Veils (relative to the Tramp Steamer) which goes a long way towards helping out sneaky activities.
I personally think restricting a black market to "the Cutter" isn't a great plan. Restricting it to a high Veils would be a good idea though (it might already be there for all I know ... my Veils is sub-30 for the entire game). Then you could be sneaky even in a larger vessel, but it's easier to be sneaky in the Cutter 
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