Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Freighters never were, are not now, and will never be ships for the solo pilot. If you need to fly one, then you need a friend in your corp. Or an alt in your corp. Or an enemy in your corp - though I don't particularly recommend that last one. You need someone who will web your freighter during alignment so that it can warp off to an off-grid safe spot in a reasonably timely fashion.

Don't complain because a group of players are capitalizing on the weaknesses of your ship that you aren't compensating for by flying it the way it was meant to be flown.

You don't really believe that using this trick is how it was meant to be, do you?
You can fly a freighter solo. Almost everyone does it, most of them know what they are doing. Even I let my slaves sometimes fly my freighter solo.

Whilst travelling with a freighter between the trade hubs there are not a lot of options where using scouts would help as there are always hotspots.
And while I sympathise with your concerns, Ganking for profit is a valid playstyle that many use to fund other activities or just because they enjoy it.

CCP naturally will atempt to keep the predators from making the prey extinct or the prey overrunning everything, but micromanagement is not really their concern in a sandbox.

If you feel the balance is wrong, it is probably better to attack that directly, a cloaked freighter, would gain no advantage as it could be bumped either way, if you see a whale and you are 5 feet away from it you can still throw the harpoon quite effectively.

The only current mechanics to reduce your risk are to use a webbing alt, to reduce time on gate, travel with friends who bump the bumpers, or simply keep the profitability for gankers low.

Remember it is not neccessary to run faster than the bear, just quicker than your companions.