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Nobody flies deep space transports because the warp strength bonus is useless in bubbleland, lowsec camps generally have hictors and they have a severe lack of powergrid which prevents them from fitting a plate and prop mod. You only ever see them in hisec, usually fully fit with expanders and cargo rigs, negating the purpose of the ship to begin with.

Making them unscannable would be a huge plus rather than making blockade runners foolproof. Imagine it as an armored truck with tinted windows.

It even makes things worse. I'm sure this change was made with the best intentions, but now I even have to worry about my ship if I'm flying empty (not necessarily AFK).

Please give that bonus to deep space transports which can at least have a proper tank or a big cargo hold, depending on how you fit it. This way it's a good replacement for the unscannable corp hangar of the Orca and everybody is happy.

Only suicide gankers.

Blockade Runners are being updated to be immune to cargo scanners, and as such will always show up as empty on scans.

The cloaky version, right? Why does it need to be immune to cargo scanning? If there is a valid reason that doesnt involve pandering to the carebears once again i'd like to hear it. Why does a ship that can only really be locked on undocks if piloted correctly need to be immune to cargo scanning?

Its sad eve is being dumbed down.

Other stuff in the blog is good tho i just feel the above change is a small kick in nuts to suicide gankers, a pastime i dont really take part in often so i couldnt care less about it and i'll happily catch the bad blockade runner pilots on a gate. People will just volley them at random now and take the chance i would think.

Off Tpo

Glad to see my Orca pilot can finally leave his one man corp

Fixed sized Containers instead of float-sized divisions is not a acceptable solution.
Give us at least a private/public division of fleet hangar or make the cargohold and fleethamgar share volyme.
Refitting capital sized module in space will be a pain in the ass.

Most likely have you now killed one of more interesting additional tactical dimensions of capship fighting. Good work! *sight*

divisions changes make me not want to play eve. Not only do devs not seem to know how players use their stuff, (at least competent ones), they admit in dev blogs to not giving a flying f*ck.

While I either like or am OK with most of these changes, I, for one, am strongly opposed to CCPs current platform of simplifying EVE.

I see blessings and curses in both freighters and blockade runners.


Freighters used as haulers for mining ops. Good.
Freighters being hunted more for being such good mining op haulers. Bad.

Blockade runners blocking scans. Good
Everyone shooting at a blockade runner because it is probably hiding something. Bad.

Either way, life will be more interesting. I like both updates, for multiple reasons.

".....we need to get the complexity of EVE under control......."

Erm. No we don't. EVE Online is a complex game for adults and mature people to play. If people want something simple to play they should choose WoW. Ugh. I swore then. .

Some people grumble that older pilots that have been playing for years have an advantage. But you can always specialise if you are a new player and will be able to catch up in career choice you make within New Eden. Nuff said.

PS I will mourn the passing of corp hanger divisions within the Orca.

PPS. Would be nice if instead of making changes we do not need or want that you could do some work on the Corporation 'Roles & Permissions interface and its interaction with all possible activities on Player Owned Stations (POS). Now there is an element of EVE Online that is in dire need of some serious TLC.

TLDR: Blockade Runners have no proper tank to deal with the increased risk of cargo-scan immunity. With this being said, it should be given to Deep Space Transports instead.



I'm specialized in one for high-sec cargo deliveries, but no chance in heck that these modules will ever end up on my DST. I fly with what cargo hold it gives me through skills and see that as its maximum.

Your analogy with the armored truck is a very good one though. A DST is essentially just that: an armored truck for higher valued cargo.



I can understand the main reason for it. The Blockade Runner is cloaky/secretive. As such, an immunity to cargo scans fits the role perfectly. However, practical implementation is that the Blockade Runner has no true need for this in its intended environment anyway. After all, A Blockade Runner excels in low-sec and null-sec environments. It always uses its cloaking ability to jump safely from system to system (unless you are deep in friendly territory, I suppose). As such, it does not need a cargo-scan immunity in the environment it is designed to operate in. The only practical implementation for this is for high-sec. However, the Blockade Runner lacks one thing: a proper tank. It's fast, agile, secretive, but not very sturdy. It's only a slight improvement compared to most Tech 1 Industrials.

That is why the Deep Space Transport would be a better option for this cargo-scan immunity. It's not because something needs to happen to make this ship more popular (no matter what you as CCP do, some ships will always be more popular than others), but the main reason for this is its ability to field a proper tank. High-sec cargo hauling is safe as long as you are aware of certain risks.

Cargo-scan immunity is an additional risk: some suicide-gankers are willing to take a risk in ganking a ship like this and with that being said, the pilot of said ship with cargo-scan immunity knows it has now become a potential target for these gankers. A Blockade Runner with a cargo-scan immunity has the potential to become the "lottery" for gankers. You win some, you lose some. "let's see what this one has in its cargo hold".

A Deep Space Transport with cargo-scan immunity can become the target for this "lottery" just as the Blockade Runner. Only, the Deep Space Transport has a trick up its sleeve: it can, if properly skilled and fitted, withstand a suicide-gank of several BC/BS ships. So the practical implementation should be to add it to the Deep Space Transports rather than the Blockade Runners as it puts additional risk on the Blockade Runner pilots (even though you mean well), where as the Deep Space Transports know how to deal with this risk: put more emphasis on it's intended use and be