Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Segmented cargo

Buff freighters HP defenses, possibly giving them AOE ewar and AOE ewar buffs

Buffing freighters to a point that's at least equivalent to a large POS in overall HP

But to loot the ship one does not need to blow it up- upon taking hull damage the ship suffers a containment breach where an animation plays. The animation shows a hole opening on the ship and a jet-can pops out with everything the freighter had in it's bay. Once the hull has been fully repaired, the freighter can once again refill it's hold.

Freighters would become flying fortresses that show impressive displays of force when killed, their cargo bays though... not so much.

I think this would be a reasonable step forward in bringing freighters to low-sec.


EDIT: to maintain highsec ganking I would propose to drone infiltrator pods
they would:
1. Do massive damage over time after being launched and cause warp disruption
2. Firing off the AOE ewar or jumping a gate permanently disables the little drones that are messing up your ship
3. The drones continue to do doe even after your ship has been destroyed by concord

aoe ewar is chance based per ship, it is unlikely you will be able to knock off the entire fleet's lock at the same time so your probability of escape by yourself remains next to nothing - it more then likely just gonna **** off your attackers

To transport cargo and you know making them align align faster won't do anything towards getting them to lowsec and will be exploited in highsec. I think blowing a hole through the ship is the best way to go.

How people who have been playing for that long come up with such stupid ideas is beyond me.

Alright guy, I can't believe im doing this, but im going to explain to you why making freighters not die is one of the stupidest things you could ever possibly ******* do.

Just sit there and think for a second, "What if freighters never died?"

Ok in this new world without freighters dying, people will never ever need to replace their freighters.
The number of freighters would build up, every time someone makes a freighter it is there nearly forever.
Pretty soon there will be more freighters than people that want freighters, suddenly all demand for freighters being built stops, the ships might even become worth less than the minerals they are made of.
This goes beyond just understanding supply and demand, it is even more fundamental than that, IF PEOPLE DON'T NEED THINGS THEN PEOPLE DON'T BUY THINGS. What if every time you ate a grape you could vomit it out and it would be perfectly nutritious and appetizing.
The grape industry instantly folds.

Suddenly the entire game itself crumbles, all ships can't die, people just start stockpiling one of every ship, mining stops, all industry is over, the game looses all purpose and becomes nothing more than running missions and fighting battles with no purpose.
Game over.

Then Aoe ewar, think about that for a second, everyone locking the freighter now just lost lock, you know what that means? It got away, and there was nothing in the world you could do about it, it might as well have been hisec.
If you do have something that can relock the freighter, fighting it now becomes the most painful, unpleasant, eye gouging experiences you can have.

You can move a freighter through low sec now if you really want to, ya know why nobody does it? Because it is pointless, completely and utterly pointless.

If ships don't die, ships don't get ******* made.

I can only see adding a new module to maintain highsec ganking.

Except they do die, and fairly often. And they are understood to be overpopulated anyway.

This proposal cannot be serious.

If freighters get pos level eho, attack battlecruisers should get sieged dread level dps.

Aren't Rorquals a little like this? Sort of like a 'super Orca' that goes into reinforced mode?