Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I believe a freighter that could use a covert ops cloaking device would add some fun to this game. It should have less ehp and a little bit less cargo, everything else could be the same. It should not cost much more than a normal freighter.

Jump Freighters are what you want OP. They can appear and disappear at will... they just need a second person to facilitate this ability.

No, jump freighters are not what I want. Jump Freighters just don't add any fun to this game. They are too expensive and they are almost impossible to catch if flown properly.

No, that is not what you want. You want me to lose my cloaked freighter on a gate camp in low sec.

Covert-cloaking freighters are hilariously broken even as an idea.

I suspect OP lost a freighter trying to fly alone and this is his kneejerk reaction to it.

No, jump freighters are not what I want. Jump Freighters just don't add any fun to this game. They are too expensive and they are almost impossible to catch if flown properly.

All you have to do is catch a freighter at a gate and bump it with a Speed Tanked Mach to keep it from aligning. Once it is far enough from the gate the Udder Care Bear Ganker's arrive in their Catalyst Blob and take it down within a few seconds.

I have seen this happen far to many times.

So even if you are flying the freighter correctly there is no assured method of avoiding The Gank.

What I think would be better would be to break the Freighter down into more localized class types such as ore, mineral, ship, modules, cow milk, cow milk types of freighters that would have base cargo holds of around 75k to 100k and then larger specialized cargo sections and vice versa. Basically the same as the smaller industrials but on a larger scale.

The freighters also need the ability to escape a Bumper Gank without having to buy a permit to ensure their safe travel.

Without having the ability to escape the gank by theirself the Capsuleer is being made to either purchase a permit or be destroyed which is actually in violation of EULA Section 16

This includes, but is not limited to, making inappropriate use of any public channels within the game and/or intentionally creating excessive latency (lag) by dumping cargo containers, corpses or other items in the game world.

Which because the Freighter Pilot does not have any other means of escaping the Gank except by purchasing a permit the pilots ability to enjoy the game has been interfered with.

Since when are you CCP? Also, CCP has already made their decision on this issue. Which I fully support.

I never said that I was CCP nor am I implying that I am a representative of CCP but I am merely quoting the from the EULA the exploited game mechanic that must be fixed to insure that the Freighter Pilot has the ability to employ other options other than self destructing the freighter, ejecting and abandoning the freighter, having the freighter destroyed by the gank or purchasing a permit in order to escape from being ganked.

All of these actions do violate the Freighter piltos right to enjoy the game based on EULA 16.

CCP has clearly stated about ten thousand times that bumping is a valid game mechanic.

You forgot a option in your list. it's called "friends" or even "alts" and using these weird new tools like the "starmap" to avoid warping a hauler into a hot spot. I've even heard tales of some freighter players actually using "friends" in combat ships to assist them and escort them.

Sure makes a lot more sense then flying a giant space brick around totally blind, refusing to use any of the tools that CCP provides to keep yourself self, then crying all over the forums when things don't go well.

CCP says no, and however you personally read the EULA is without meaning - what actually has meaning is what CCP has said, and they have clearly said "NO" to your thought process, about 4 dozen times. Perhaps you should take a moment to use the search tool and look up CCP's response to this?