Walter wrote:You don't need to do anything apart from carry on ignoring him. He's in Open and one of the reasons you're in Mobius.
Except that if successful and if ED doesn't step in, it would mean he shuts down a portion of the game as the stations would no longer be active.
The things you can do to counteract it is to bounty hunt to prevent/remove lockdown and deliver Meta Alloys to counteract the UAs. That's about it, but I suspect they will either a) not be particularly successful or b) FD will god mod it.
That all said, I will admit that the OP in that thread does kind of have a point about the smuggling missions that give 7 million credits for no effort. I think the long distance ones are balanced well, but those smuggling missions are just stupidly OP compared to literally anything else in the game. I don't think his solution is the right one, nor his reasoning, but there is some validity to the claim that Ceos/Sothis is kind of broken in that those smuggling missions are completely out of balance. Nothing else can make you even remotely close to 21 million credits in 5 minutes and that really does cheapen the hard work people have put in. Comparatively, the long range trading missions work out to about 20 to 30 million an hour, which isn't that out of line with any other high volume or long distance trading.