Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have thought about this one long and hard and here's what I have come up with...

Why can't freighters fit weapons? In most other games that I have played, even shows on TV, freighters are armed. So being able to fit some weapons, modules, and rigs like other ships should be the norm. So CCP, I have to ask, what is the rational for having freighters unarmed? Even industrial ships like the Nerus and Iteron Mark V can fit weapons. But, weapons probably won't do much against a fleet of gankers who are intent on blowing your ship up. All you can do is put on tank modules and hope for the best.

Which brings me to another issue: Freighter Bumping. Now that CCP has made a ruling on the hyperdunking fiasco, a new mechanic needs to be implemented for freighter bumping. As it currently stands, there is NO WAY for a freighter pilot to counter bumping on their own. So someone who is bumping them can bump with impunity and indefinitely with no risk (unless someone bumps them or ganks them). The hyperdunking tactic would actually work well with allowing freighters to be armed. The freighter pilot can fight back and possibly pod the ganker thereby stopping the gank.

The proposed mechanic is this: If the bumper bumps the freighter more than once, then flag them suspect. Once is an accident, twice is malicious intent. This would ONLY apply on grid at gates and only for freighters, orcas, and other similar ships that require a long align-to-warp time. Having this mechanic in Jita would amount to utter chaos. This way, the bumper will be at risk for their activity.

its not like if a freighter could fit even a full rack of whatever weapon you want it would survive a gank attack

That's only because the devs had no reason on giving them proper power/cpu

and what the poster wants would just lead to yellows every where, people don't even team up against yellows in trade systems.
if a freighter did fight back it probably wouldn't have the dps to do much and anyone would just run circles with web/scram and kill the freighter anyways

Hyperdunking is laughably easy to avoid or escape, if you're silly enough to get caught. Bumping already has counters and can also be avoided.
Both Hyperdunking AND bumping have been ruled on, they are BOTH fine. A solution denotes a problem, there isn't one.

Which begs the question. Why on earth should you be safe, transporting such a large amount of goods on your own?

Oh and reported for redundancy.

CCP has asked for you to direct your thoughts on bumping to the thread in which the explicitly ruled that bumping is legitimate and valid gameplay.

You can find that thread here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=199310

But really, why should capital ships in highsec be excluded from the emergent properties of the physics engine that make all large and unescorted ships vulnerable to bumping? Just fly a DST or blockade runner if you are so worried. CCP has given you plenty of tools to move your stuff around safely - the solution to every hauling problem is not "AFK freighter".

Long align time? The align time of my freighter is however long it takes whichever webbing frigate I'm using to lock. That's not really a long time, and for some odd reason I have never lost a freighter.

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