Secret Cargo compartment

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:31 pm

How about:

An expensive modification to your ship that provides "secret" smuggling compartments. Say it takes 1 ton off your cargo capacity, but allows you to hide 4 tons from GalCop eyes.
In other words, if you buy 4 tons of Narcs, your Status doesn't change.
You can then purchase multiple smuggling compartments.

...Monkey tennis?

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:44 pm

shouldn't it be the other way around then? you lose 4 tons available space, but get the 1 secret ton compartment?

monkey tennis? Karl Pilkington's favourite sport?

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:12 pm

I think Wiggy means 1 ton of overhead per 5 tons of Smuggler compartment.
You could store regular legal goods in it if you wanted too, so it would just be your total cargo capacity reduced by 1 ton to gain 4 ton hidden.

You would need a warning if you only have 4 tons smuggler special, but you pick up 5 tons of dope and firearms.

-Wyrm

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:39 pm

My thought was that it would work in the same way that you lose 5t for a passenger compartment, but get to take passengers on board.

Likewise, you would lose some tonnage, but then would have some tonnage as secret.

It might be tricky to implement a "sub-cargo hold" concept, just for one feature which is, essentially, a cheat. I just thought it was a bit Han Solo, that's all...

(Monkey tennis is, of course, Alan Partridge's last, desperate pitch of an idea for a tv show to the head of the BBC. It expresses the randomness of my suggestion.)

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:43 pm

thanks, now it is all clear.

Han Solo feel and all, it sounds nice. not that I would know, but I imagine it would be awkward to add that feature to Oolite.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:30 pm

Say Wiggy me thinks thou areth cheating: no elite rating erefore 250 posts. Or some such.

Done the presentation: ack what worthless papers those were: no clear hypotheses or results, halfarsed methods and checks. Overladen with math and statistics, which I loathe. So I'm free for a few moments, wheee!

I think the smuggling compartment upgrade has been discussed earlier (by me mostly) around november last year I think. If memory serves right, the thread was also about escapepod safes for valuables etc.

Could be fun to revisit. :p

Kay, off to check elite.wiki.

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:50 am

Say Wiggy me thinks thou areth cheating: no elite rating erefore 250 posts. Or some such

Elite at the game. I'm still an amateur at posting twaddle.

I think the smuggling compartment upgrade has been discussed earlier (by me mostly)

There is nothing new under the sun. All is but vanity. (Yea, verily.)
We seem to have independently come up with exactly the same idea. There must be some merit in it, then!

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:09 pm

If it was good enough for HanSolo....

I like smuggling, but don't like to pay 'taxes' to the police.