Building A Smugglers Hideout - is it Worth It?

[Swedish_Gandalf™]

Hey, was doing quite a lot of smuggling recently and was thinking of building/creating a smugglers hideout (In the galaxy i have another couple stations in). Was wondering tho, if I do build this, since I'm the owner of it, would I still have to pay the 50% price-of-the-item to unbrand a stolen item? Or would it be free or at least decreased in price since I own the station?

[LORDSOL]

YES i bulit mine to save travel time now i don't have to jump out of the core to get rid of stolen stuff and it did seem cheaper to own it and exchange stuff .

[Dragon Unityr]

No

[Gwydion]

which one is it now?

[Hitokiri_Leonhart]

Lol. Might I suggest starting a new file and using console commands to give you the resources and credits to make a Smuggler's Hideout? If you can, put it in the same sector as a generated (NPC) hideout. You can use the same seed ID you play on now so you can find smugglers in the same place as your actual game.

[falsetruth1988]

Well this tread is worthless, yes no, maybe so, idk........ Would anyone like to add something productive to this pls, and thank you...

[Swedish_Gandalf™]

To be honest mate Im just suprised that this thread is still being added to... having been asked... 2 years ago.

Since then I've learned that in mulitplayer, you do get payed a percentage of the cost that other people pay unbranding at your station (And from what I gather from a friend, this also works in single player - You pay the full amount, but you get refunded a portion of it). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[addison.chow60]

How to create a smuggler hideout AFK farm:
Step 1: Find accelerator factory cluster with factory close to jump in point that is close to barrier or inside barrier.
Step 2: pack the station with with the best 15 tractor beam upgrades you have and place the station close to a factory at the jumping in point.
Step 3: get a smuggler captain or illegal goods transport license on the station and enable the station to pick up stolen goods.
Step 4: Xsotan attack with large fleet and wipe out some trading ship(s) carrying goods within the smuggler hideout pickup radius.
Step 5: unbrand stolen goods by making a station dock to itself by removing a tractor beam upgrade and installing a transporter software and transporter block and unbrand the goods.
Step 6: sell the stolen goods back to factory or other stations for profit
Step 7: remove transporter software and install the best tractor beam upgrade you have or can find.
Step 8: go back to step 4 to repeat the process:)

[thestile]

You DEFINITELY have to pay to unbrand in your own smuggler station... I learned my lesson on that. Lol

It was a good idea to try though. It would save MILLIONS if it got rid of that unbrand fee.

Oh well, money is easy to come by anyway. I have a sector with about 40 stations and it makes millions of credits every 5 minutes:)

PS: Didn't realize this was a super old thread.... Oh well, I answered the question