Jita Park Speakers Corner

Instead of rigs, seriously? I'm disappointed.

Rigs provide an interesting decision making game, and taking responsibility for those decisions, as rigs are expensive and permanent. On the other hand, refitting modules is no-brainer, just click-drag-click-drag-click-drag, literally.

Let's look at Fozzie's justification: "As the only classes to have rig slots alone with no fitting slots, Freighters and Jump Freighters would have allowed customization towards a player's most common use cases, but would still lack the very important ability to adjust fittings in response to changing needs and environments."
Dont you see the flaw in that logic? Let me show you:
"As the only classes to have fitting slots alone with no rig slots, Freighters and Jump Freighters would have allowed not only adjustment of fitting, but total repurposing, with zero efforts."
That degree of flexibility is not even achieved by T3 ships, yet. But here, we're talking about T1 Freighters, and "specialized" T2 DFs.

The difference between "adjustment" and "repurposing" is crucial. If I put 3x trimarks on my battleship, it is doomed to be passive armor tanked. I can choose to fit more tank or DPS depending on ~environments~ but god forbid if I put a shield booster and go ratting.

Also, those awkward new modules... facepalm.
Fuel conservators, because we need even more capital projection.
Warp accelerators, useless literally for everything other than Freighters.

So once again, a very poor start for this CSM, in my not so humble opinion.
You had a chance to add some interesting contents to the game, but instead added some more click-drag-click-drag-click-drag.

What we did was listen to the well reasoned feedback from the community, which was pretty overwhelmingly negative for how it was done, rather than it was being done at all (which was mostly positive, once the hyperbole was stripped away)

The negativity was, primarily, from 2 aspects:
The inflexibility.
The cost involved to regain current abilities.

The first one, personally, wasn't particularly compelling. I can understand the arguments, I just didn't find them particularly strong.
The second one, however, was.

If it had been a minor drop, or a minor cost, then sure. But at, for a freighter, between a fifth and two thirds the price of the ship, it was very compelling, and something I'd failed to think about. (I don't buy many capital rigs, after all)

You have a point there technically but I know you know what I mean.


Fortunately we're discussing how they are going to be, not how they were.

Slots are definitely preferable to rigs. they allow flexibility for a professional space trucker to tweak his loadout for the job he or she is taking on, and doesn't leave him/her pinned to a billion isk fitting that he/she would never be able to justify changing due to the profit loss.