Crime & Punishment

Hello fellow space-scum and villains! It's been awhile since I've seen your smiling faces and lovely shiptoastings, but enough pleasantries for the moment.

It seems that the Citadel patch has thrown another curve-ball our way, and hopefully this info will help you avoid losing any shiny murder-toys from this (what I certainly hope is a) bug. For any of you that regularly use or transport combat boosters, CCP has added a new "feature" which will prevent gate activation if customs scan you down in a hisec system.

When warping to a gate, regardless of warping to 0 or just jumping, the contraband notification effectively removes your ability to cut and run with the drugs still in your cargo. I haven't attempted to surrender the cargo to see if the ability to activate the gate is restored, b/c seriously who does that? However, refusing to turn over the goods locks you from making the jump and will get you popped unless you GTFO in something quick-aligning. Warping off and returning to the same gate results in an insta scram/web/pop so, the only option is to exit via another gate in the system. So far, this has been the only way to avoid getting customs-dunked that we've found.

I really do hope this is just a bug. It's been reported, but if it turns out to be "working as intended," Then the ability to reliably get your boosters from A to B in hisec is pretty much a fond memory.

So, if you have to move them, do yourself a favor and be ready to get off gate fast and plan multiple routes. And FFS, don't try the same gate twice in the system you get the hit!

Fly smart o7

Can you transport them in a blockade runner?

"The summer expansion has been delayed as it is still waiting from approval by the Amarr State Customs Agency. The other three Empires have already given their approval, so CCP is only waiting on the Amarr AI to determine if the patch is acceptable."