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Or you could just copy and paste the salient points from the document into a post instead of making us download a potentially virus-infested file from a generic file hosting service...

You can claim its safe......but they all do that.

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If you want to do a doc like this, save it as html, text or a PDF and put it on Eve files.

New skill: Cargo Concealment (Rank 4) (Mechanics)

For each level in this skill allows for an additional +5% protection to the chance of NPC custom officials finding and locating illicit items in a cargo hold. It also is a skill that allows for items to not appear on cargo scans made by players, though the bonus applied under these conditions is +3%. For this to be applied as a chance for each item type however, the total cargo capacity associated with each item type must account for less then 10% of the total cargo capacity.

The concealment chance is intended as an independent level of checking when associated with NPC customs checks and cargo scans designed as a preventative piece of logic to see if it avoids scanning altogether. If any illicit item fails the concealment check therefore it will be treated normally as per existing scanning rules.

Also the results are applied on every scan, so if something is hidden by the process on an initial scan it may of course be discovered on subsequent additional scans. Something to be tactically aware of for both processes by pilots.

Prerequisites: Hull upgrades III, Cloaking I

New class of ship: Courier Transport

This is a new class of ship that is a smaller industrial type vessel than is tuned more for speed as opposed to cargo usage. It is similar in size to a small cruiser or large destroyer, but is not configured for combat though slightly more agile than current industrials or transports. Prerequisite skills: Racial industrial level II; Concealment level II

Ship bonuses for each level in the race’s industrial ship skill offers the following:

+5% velocity (sub warp speed) per level.
+3% warp velocity per level.

Role bonus: +12.5% fixed value to total concealment chances.

Suggested idea for stats but not fixed of course:


Race,Speed,Cargo,CPU,PG,High,Med,Low,Warp

Amarr,202,1350,455,73,1,1,4,5.5

Caldari,192,1600,475,55,1,3,2,5.5

Galentte,196,1450,385,53,1,2,3,5.5

Mimmitar,207,1200,385,58,1,2,3,5.5


The rest of the stats I’ll leave to CCP imagination regarding stats as per racial characteristics and other conventions.

Idea is for a Tech 2 version to be a “cloaky” equivalent as per blockade runners with a specific bonus to allow for Covert Ops cloak usage as per transport skill.

Tech 2 additional role bonus would therefore be: -98.5% to -99.25% bonus to cpu need for covert ops cloaks.

Again following a similar strategy as per conversion of the Tech 1 industrial version, reducing cargo slightly for better speed might be also a useful adaption to adopt. Stats may obviously need to be tweaked to afford Tech 2 equivalency etc.

The Tech 2 versions are crucial to afford low and null sec useful options and considering the intended role by these types of courier transports the tech 2 version is vital to help with normal smuggling activities of general economic interest (e.g. boosters). The tech 1 version viewed to be the high sec counterpart to help assist with faster supply needs.

Tech 2 prerequisites would be Racial industrial V, Transports I, Concealment II

(An alternative model to consider may be to apply them as pirate factional craft with mixed racial skill requirements as this might be more applicable tech for those factions, however at least a “cloaky” version would still be required for intended use)

New NPC agent distribution missions specifically targeted to help enrich low security space.


Mission: Drug Running

A new mission type will be added to specifically enrich the black market element of game play. These missions will be tied into distribution agents that are present in low sec space. However, only players who have a security status of -3.0 or less will have the opportunity to be presented with one. However, they are not intended to be so common.

The mission will present a high ISK and LP earning distribution mission where the player will have a limited amount of time to delivery some illicit drugs into neighbouring high sector system from out of the low sector area. The target system will be random but the suggestion here is to at least have to penetrate a least a few sectors to give some potential difficulty due to security issues. It may also be plausible based on the player’s security status to therefore be offered a mission which will take them into hostile policed space. A suitable awareness message may be helpful for these missions as a result.

The volumes of drugs as Mission items are suggested to be relatively small. Though some variance to volumes associated with mission level difficulty is an obvious link to apply here.

Corrections to current Corporate hanger cargo holds

It is viewed as a need to correct the current ease of applied use of these kind of cargo storage areas (e.g. Orca) to be made accessible to player scanners and be treated in a similar way as regular cargo space (but equally applying this suggestion’s features) to allow for a correct interpretation of smuggling possibilities for players.

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Please note, uploaded pdf version to EvE files as suggested.

It's just criminal - Smuggling pdf

Seems a lot of effort when it's just so much easier to get a fleet of friends together, send them through the gates ahead of the 'smuggler' and get them to kill any Customs ships that are hanging around.

They will suffer a sec hit but so what? It's fun and your shady goods get to Jita ok.

I do have to wonder though as to what you would be 'smuggling' anyway? Only thing of any real value would be boosters. Anything else just isn't worth the trouble.