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Please don't delete CCP Falcon!!

(Who's av looks sexier than ever I might add.)

The new player will be new and will take it as the status quo. As for the rest of us... lol

Personally, I'd stick with the blockade runner for lowsec hauls. The bigger cargo bay just means more loot, so you're a bigger target, and you don't have the advantage of the cloak or scan immunity. I'd rather take more small trips knowing that they are more secure than fewer high risk trips that basically say "come get me!"

Your call, but that five gallon can is an easier target, and a more tempting one, as there's more loot to be had for a single attack. If it's a five gallon can of jewels I have to drag down the street in plain sight with a big label on it (anyone who sees a specialized ship like an Epithal will know what it is hauling), or a one gallon can I can hide under my coat, I'll make more trips to keep it secure.

Of course, I'm sure it depends on the local activity in your corner of lowsec. If things are quiet enough that you can make the trip in a giant loot pinata, go for it. Or, you could just let me know where you're hauling, and maybe I'll finally give in and turn to piracy....

thinking more along that lines...

There only needs to be one rendering of the "industrial Gnosis". There doesn't need to be a new rendering for each specialty.

In fact, there doesn't need to be a new name for each specialty. nobody except the capsuleer (and his client) needs to know what version the ship is. Everybody else only knows it's a 'MegaGnosis' and knows it carries a special type of load. They don't need to know what type of load.

Also, an even larger size can be made (the 'Super Gnosis?) for that hauling gap between the industrials and the freighters. It can operate under the same 'specialty basis' as the smaller 'Mega'.

Wouldn't it be like saying you can't stuff a truck with whatever you want?
I mean , an empty space can be filled with everything , isn't that right?

You can fill the tipper truck with bottles of water , a tanker with a proper opening can be filled with parcels , or... well I'm sure you get the picture xD

Try reading my post properly:

Define "proper".

[Edit] To give a more relevant comparison, consider RL shipping on present day planet Earth.

Gas carriers carry gas, nothing else.

Oil tankers carry oil, nothing else.

Ore carriers carry ore, nothing else.

Etc, etc.

Yes, that's one trip where you're carrying a big sign and running around yelling "come and get me!" with your jewels in plain sight; I'd rather take five trips quietly in the background where it's harder for anyone to find me or know what it is I'm carrying (coudl be jewels, could be baking flour, could be nothing).

I agree, this is entirely stupid to begin with, do you now realize what you have done? Now gankers just sit and browse for cargo hold types they want to slaughter by ship type. Why not just paint "GANK ME FOR MAX PAYOUT"? on them???

I like the BAY concept but A better solution would have been to create a bay module that changes the type of materials you can carry maximum capacity of. Let the pilot decide what BAY they want to install on their ship.

For Example:

An ammo module for module bay
A mineral module for Minerals
A PI module for PI materials

This way no one could just sit at a gate and say "oh look i want to kill mineral carriers today".

TRACTOR TRAILERS on the Freeways don't identify whats in them, you have to scan everyone to tell what cargo you want to suicide gank for. In REAL LIFE ONLY ARMORED CARS ARE GUARANTEED TO CARRY VALUABLES AND THEY ARE BUILT FOR BATTLE. Not GIMPS like this ships are.

This is just a complete mental breakdown in concept to begin with. Each ship needs to be "GENERALIZED" and cargo unidentifiable unless scanned by an appropriately utilized scanner module mounted on a ship.