Player Features and Ideas Discussion

hello,

I am pretty interested in ganking and I follow the "war" between industrialists and gankers for quite some time.
While I think that ganking creates "content" and is a very interesting part of eve that should stay, I feel that just based on pure ISK loss the industrialists always draw the short straw. So I thought about, how we can give freighter pilots something to strike back a bit, without altering the game mechanics.

The Idea I came up with, is a Rig that strategically places explosive charges on key points in the cargo hold. Once the ships gets destroyed and explodes, those additional charges make sure that the entire cargo gets destroyed too. This has the effect that that while the freighter pilot still loses ship and cargo, he does at least not feed the people that ganked him. So the amount of tears would stay the same, but evened out a bit on both parties. Those "for the cause" gankers (if those really exist) would not mind much, quite the opposite I think, as more ISK would actually get destroyed instead of redistributed. But gankers that make their living with it would have a bit of a harder time.

Of course the Rig would be a game item that has to be produced. bought, fitted and has its drawbacks. It uses a slot, reduces the cargo hold capacity and maybe it even could reduce the ship strength. As having explosives on board may lead additional internal damage when hit. The rig would only destroy cargo, but not fitted Items.

So we recap:

*Freighter pilots, will be happy that their tormentors make less to no profit with their gank.
*ISK-gankers, will be happy to finally have a new challenge, finding a worthy target to gank with their mad PVP skiils and every cargo drop will be so much sweeter.
*"Elite" gankers can be happy that more ISK gets destroyed and that they can save EVEs economy more effectively.
*Even in universe it makes sense.
*Rig can not be misused to prevent "shiny" incursion or mission ships from dropping their factions and officer modules.
*There will always be fail fits and noobs with 30 plexes in a shuttle, no ganker will lose his bread over this.

Old suggestion, latest just last week, redundant and silly (sorry).

Why can be seen in the exploding corpse, exploding wreck, exploding ship, exploding implant, exploding rig (wait) exploding module, exploding cargo ......and so forth suggestions, nothing new.

I'd like exploding testicles fitted to my clones for when someone tries to dress a dead one in a french maids outift. Does this still class as an old idea?

ed: Hmmmm, certain biological names ar edisallowed it seems...oh nuts...which by a strange coincidence is what I tried to say in anatomically correct terms...

This would really need an accompanying module that fakes cargo scan results - bait some ganks in a super tanked ship with 'mislabelled' cargo.

Bugs me how hard it is to counter the scanning alts.