Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Erm players not showing their losses on their killboard has nothing to do with CCP or the game. Players choose to set their killboard to not show losses to npcs and they would do that regardless if the api somehow flagged it as a "pvp" kill.

They are not dificult to gank, by any stretch of the imagination. Get real son.

The fact of the matter is that you cannot move a freigher safely through "high security" space.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo....

Please spell lose as lose and not loose which is describing my sister...

Secondly is to void any and all insurance when killed by concord. Up the price on ganking, make it less profitable (but still potentially profitable).

HAHAHAHA. This has to be a troll. There is no way this could be a serious post.

Not at all. It's a concept that many freighter pilots understand & actively implement to avoid being picked as a target. Making yourself unprofitable to gank is not taking a loss. Making yourself profitable to gank is the loss. Read the text at the bottom for a more detailed real life comparison (I'm not generally a big advocate on those, but quite a bit of it can be applied here).




Having a longer cloak timer wouldn't help one bit, it just means the gankers have to wait longer before the target uncloaks.
Being covered for some alignment time would mean everyone piloting ships would also want this. Freighters are big ships & have a high mass which accounts for the larger alignment time. People choose to pilot freighters for various reasons & they all need to accept that their ship choice comes with many downsides.



I haven't personally been involved in any of the freighter ganks so I can't honestly give you an answer on those statistics (and out of habit, I wouldn't anyway). What I can tell you comes from personal experience in my real life profession. The company I worked for 8 years ago was heavily involved in armoured vehicle cash (and other things) escorts. We had certain runs that had to be completed on certain days. For each individual run, we'd have several routes set out that we could take which were chosen at random by the driver. The vehicles themselves are also built to make a potential attack or robbery (you guessed it) unprofitable. If you can't get inside the vehicle to begin with, then you're losing money.

This is the standard proceedure for that type of work for a reason; It works. One out of 10, 20 or more routes is chosen at random, on the spot by the driver. When one of these is attacked or robbed, 99% of the time it is attributed to an inside job, ironically, the driver since he's the only person that knows which way you're going. Now when you use this type of method, the gankers in this case would need to use other methods to gank you, but often by that stage it has become unprofitable to do so (in EVE) especially when someone else is already on their way on autopilot completely ovlivious to what's happening around him.

Now while there may not be 10,20 or more different routes you can take in EVE, there is always more than 1. Even if both routes have a ganker presence, there is still another way around which I briefly touched on in an earlier post.

Hey OP do you realize why they spend 1b in ships to suicide gank your freighter?

As for your suggestion of altering routes - that only works so far. Be honest, now, how many freighters have you guys ganked were ones you scouted on previous days, recorded their route, and set up an ambush specifically for them?