Ok so i was thinking you currently get xp and money if you do a drug run.

My suggestion is that you either choose between alot of xp and lose money or no xp but money. So say you buy at 9k and sell for 4k you lose quite a bit of money but you should get alot of xp and other way say you buy at 4k and sell at 9k you get a bit of money out of it but then you get no xp. So people must choose if they wanna rank up or if they want money.

Pros: Takes money out of the game.

Cons: Makes no sense in any way (but would be cool)

so what do you guys think?

I guess you learn from your mistakes with the no profit, but you shouldn't have to pick between xp and money. They go hand in hand, Money=Power ;) But I don't see why you can't get xp from not gaining profit, I'm not sure if that is already in place or not though :S but again you shouldn't have to pick between Money or XP. But I like the xp from no profit on the face that you learn from your mistakes ;)

what they could do is so for say the first 5 times you lose money you get extra xp (learning from mistakes(taken from -prophet-'s idea)) but then they don't get anything because from then they should know not to sell for less money.

If Squishy says there already xp going into having no profit, the idea is already half fufilled. :) It's all good that probably already happens anyway.

i was meaning like a little wee tiny bit more for the first 5 times :)

It makes no sense from a RP prosepective to reward those who fail repeatedly. Actually the whole drug running system in game is out of period, IE during the wrong era.

Most of what the Mafia was involved in at this time was Illegal Hooch, as Prohibition was in full swing. Incidentally this places the time line for MR 16th Jan 1920 to 5th December 1933.

The Mafia didn't start Drug trafficking until the 60s and where slow on the uptake as many of the traditional members saw it as dishonourable (They still saw themselves as the protectors of the Itallian/Sicillian way of life) and dealing in drugs was hurting their own people. Others, due to their inherant racist attitude saw it as the domain of the Chinese, Blacks and Hispanics. It was only when these gangs started to grow and flourish due to the vast profits being made that the Mafia started to become world leaders in Heroin smuggling.

I always wanted to see Drug running replaced with more traditional Mafia 'Businesses' such as Hooch smuggling, Numbers Running, Extortion, Gun Running etc. Alas with the introduction of the DFP I doubt this would ever happen now, unless it recieved a significant Shake up as well.

"Cons: Makes no sense in any way"

I think you answered your own question.