Player Features and Ideas Discussion

While this character and my alternates can fly Jump freighters I don't bother doing so. If I buy a ship somewhere, or even a bunch of ships somewhere, I fly in a cov-ops to where they are located at, fit them out individually for travel and move them one by one. Occasionally I will use a blockade runner or a regular hauler fit for fast align and warp if the cargo isn't something easily moved in the belly of a Battleship.

I've been targeted a couple times in my haulers but only because I actually sat on a gate long enough to look at someone (usually because their name interested me). I've been ganked a cpl times in my entire EVE career, and every single time it was because I was NOT paying attention to my character(s).

I've flown cover for freighters as well, and using webbs to launch them into warp as soon as they uncloak works amazingly well and of course, means that by the time someone has scanned them, they are already gone.

I also have a habit of docking up my ships and switching to alt play if my hauler with cargo has been scanned or targetted and coming back to it anywhere from several hours to several days later to finish the move (or if I need the stuff badly enough, switching to a hauler capable no-name alt and transferring the cargo to it for a quick move).

There are ways to avoid being ganked no matter what you are carrying. If you bother to use your head and current game mechanics.

~Z

The day old Rookie DOES get a warning message that looting the wreck makes them attackable. It doesn't say for how long.

Also, I think perhaps the more habitually someone reduces their security status and raises it again, the harder it should be to raise it back. For one thing, why do rats in nullsec give bounties and sec status? There's no CONCORD out there, right? Then again, removing all that would have a pretty dramatic effect on the game.

Maybe CONCORD standing should be separate from sec status, and losing sec status would make you lose a little bit of CONCORD standing. Then if you get your CONCORD standing too low, raising your sec status won't matter until you run enough missions for CONCORD. At least it would make an additional chore for serial gankers.

How did this thread make it to seven pages? Is there seriously more than maybe one or two people who support this idea? Ridiculous.

I don't think that's a reasonable solution at all. For one thing, the gankers have no "free ride" that carebears don't have. If you want to haul stuff around, you should have your head screwed on properly. You should be checking your fittings and judging your cargo value vs. your ship's hit points and the sec status you'll be flying into, as well as the amount of other pilots who will be flying around in the area you're going. Are there likely to be gankers on the way? Can you take another path to get there? Is it worth it?

Those are all things that should go into the hauler's trip assessment. Trust me, that job is MUCH easier than all of the things the gankers have to assess. They choose to do all that hard work because there is no shortage of people who make ganking profitable. But you may notice that when your freighter carrying several billion ISK worth gets ganked in Uedama, all the other 15+ freighters going through the gate at the same time pretty much ignore it. It's not because they're all AFK, sure some of them are but I know a lot of freighter pilots are not, because I'll talk to them sometimes. And they really just don't care that YOU got YOUR freighter blown up because they know THEY aren't worth ganking, because THEY did their research. It's that simple. Live and learn.

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After getting ganked a few times, I figured maybe I should become a ganker. But after trying to do that, I learned it was far easier to just learn to not get ganked.