EVE General Discussion

That is actually an easy fix. You simply get in the fastest ship you have, undock from the station you want to undock from and fly straight out as far as you feel is comfortable and create an undock bookmark. The next time you undock the freighter you will nearly instawarp to the bookmark.

here is a novel idea dont fly freighters under war dec ?

It's easy to gank a freighter in 0.5 space.
Simply have 1 of your team mates get concorded as far out in the solar system as possible, from the target. This can easily be done by shooting a wreck belonging to a neutral alt. While concord are busy, bump the freighter (to interupt autopilot) & using the new Tier 3 battlecruisers (loaded with 8x large T2 weapons & a stack of dmg mods. A group of just 3 pilots can produce alpha strikes of 30,000+. Which would eat through most freighters hulls in 5 volleys. Scoop the cargo with an industrial. Rinse & repeat.

CCP should have concidered the impact of introducting Tier 3 battecruisers with higher alphas then tier 2/3 battleships for half the cost. At least give freighters mid & low slots so they can fit some passive hardeners. Your customers would greatly appreciate it.

Give them low slots and you will have to nerf their cargo bay.

That seems a reasonable compromise IMHO - let the pilot of the freighter strike a balance between the risk versus reward rather than essentially have a fitting imposed upon them.

If that happened, we could laugh as they use the low slots to regain their cargo capacity, and eat in to their EHP at the same time

The real problem with jump freighters is that they are WAY too safe.

In fact, their ability to jump OUT of hisec should be nerfed.

We are talking about the ONLY ship that can undock from a station in hisec and move several systems over without ever being lockable or in any danger as it can jump to a cyno before the invulnerability from undocking runs out....

This is in effect a 100% negation of a wardec making it possible for you to sustain a war effort without ever being in danger of losing your ship.

But they are also somehow wihout any combat....well... without any slots and they are third most expensive ships in the game. Yes they should have this advantage.

please dont be "me-wana-juicy-targets"

Tier 3 BCs are a different discussion peeps. I think we all know they're just a little too good to last for long with their current stats.

Freighters are fine as they are and one of my alts has undocked hundreds of times from Jita 4M4. He doesn't do that alone whether its a Freighter or a Jump Freighter and nor does he align at the undock. He's still alive.

The problem with any mmorpg, every time they introduce a new class, race or in this case a ship. Is that you have a certain balance issue to iron out over time. The players in eve found a way to use the Tier 3 BC to pop freighters easily. So in resoponse, it's resonable to buff freighters one way or another. Perhaps a single lowslot to either carry more cargo (at the risk of being ganked even easier), damage control for survivability or speed/agility again, at a cost of hull hp.