Hi all,

First up, a balance pass on Smuggling:
- Signficiantly reduced the collateral required to take on a smuggling contract. Old smuggling contracts will take awhile to cycle out, at which time you should see the new, lower collaterals.
- Increased the amount of contraband dropped by NPC smugglers
- Killing NPC smugglers no longer results in notoriety/warden rating adjustments. What you do with the contraband will determine that.

Next up: PMOs. A chain of issues came up with respect to commodity valuation, resulting in some unpleasant shipforge prices the other day. The problem was fixed, but PMO prices for mining spec went haywire. Since then I've done some reflecting, as the game will have a tough time evaluating the worth of a single raw commodity for some time yet (unlike refined commodities, there is no refine cost with which to judge a base cost). As such, for now, raw material PMOs will no longer be linked to the refine cost of its refined version. It will use a flatter valuation with some variance. New mining spec PMOs will be updated to the new valuations, but I have not removed old ones.

Regards,
Neritus