Here goes....

1. Your rep probably doesn't have any effect on commodity prices
2. If I'm not mistaken, you can destroy the trade lanes' rings and therefore can do some cargo stealing Lovely loot !!
3. The cops will ask you to drop the cargo and if you do, they'll leave you alone, but if not.....witness their wrath

I could be mistaken by some thing, so one of the Beta tester can give you a more clear answer.



" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable "

You can't destroy tradelane rings but you can disable them temporarily resulting in the same thing: travelers dropping out of "warp" (so to speak)

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."

Ooohhh, hehehe. That sounds good enough to me. How do you disable the trade lanes?

Blast Them !!!!

And i heard you can hack 'em when you are with the faction called 'Lane Hackers' (figures, eh?).

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."

Yeah thats possible too.
Maybe not as much fun ...

Sweet, so you just attack one of the trade lanes and it goes off line and then when a ship comes in and hits it they stop at normal speed and then you can ask to wash their windows? I would be my luck a freindly group would be stopped by me and then not be so freindly. If you are freinds with cops and you blast a trade lane and they are stopped do they get pissed and attack you?

Any idea how long it stays down? Do you have to watch in advance and try to time it right or do you just blast one and then see what happens? I noticed they have turrets on them and I wondered why. I can see not being able to destroy them that would just be a big paine if you mess up all of the trade routes.

I am glad to see they put lane hackers in. So far I have been stopped by rogues mostly, are there rogue-lanehackers or just lanehackers?

AFAIK when whoever drops out of the trade lane you damaged, they just speed up and hit the next ring, so as long as you don't attack them, it's ok. If it's someone you want to kill, go for it, if not, let them continue on.

@Cypher:

Attacking the trade lane itself will get you hated by the cops. Reactivation of the trade lane takes about a minute.

I think this has been answered before, but just in case...lets say I am flying through the trade lane, am I still vulnerable to pirates attacking the tradelane rings?


I pity da foo, thug, o villian that trys takin' over da world, then comes home cryin' to his mamma!
-Mr. T

Yes, if they shoot out the ring before you reach it. You'll be slowed down so they can attack you.





EB: check the code

Edited by - ElectricBrain on 18-02-2003 05:14:10

Thought I had it correct! I had another one but I thought I'd test it with the microsoft logo.. wonder where i went wrong.

ElectricBrain,

So if I keep hitting the trade lanes my rep will start to go down every time I do it? Just like if I were attacking one of their ships or do you mean that if cops are in the area then they don't like it but it doesn't hurt your rep. Thanks.

Yah, your reputation with the police and local mechant companies will go down. Shooting the trade lane enough will make it and everything else in the system go red, which means you better haul ass outta there.