Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Eve economy pretty much depends on Freighters and Jump Freighters being 99.9% safe. Do you want everything in the game to cost 10x as much? If you make these ships killable, that's exactly what will happen.

You would instead cyno your Jumpfreighters into the deepest safespot you can find and web them into warp straight away then self destruct the cynoship or (not sure if you can) cloak up the recon you're using.

Would make it alot more hassle for not much more "killability" also if you're moving ALOT of money in a jumping ship i have pinged my corporation before and just straight up conquered a lowsec system before for the 10 minutes we needed it as a midpoint cyno...

silly idea for the reasons below

the only time i would consider somthing like this was if we went back to the days of not being able to warp to 0

So you fancy that then, no more warp to 0 jump, no more warp to 0 in any system, not allowing bookmarks on the gates...

Because basically your saying that JFs (and other capitals) cannot jump (which is their safer version of warp) to 0, then nor should any ship be allowed to enjoy losing all your ships that will cost FAR FAR more because they cannot be safely carried around the universe...

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No idea. I fly though dozens of empty low-sec systems every day. I know that people jump freighters into Beke and Leran all day long with almost nobody in system.

As with every time a dev answers with a smiley only :p

The idea of escorting a freighter through HS is in itself a joke.

The attacker must make the first move before you can defend yourself or concord will simply target you as the aggressor, you cannot take preventative actions by wiping out the obvious camp or bumping mach before they create the problem. Bring a webbing ship? Pray they don't realize this and blap it before you can get your webs off. Bring logi? They'll kill your logi then turn their attention to you. Bring more logi? They have a bowhead/orca/corp hanger full of ships to kill off anything you brought and all the time in the world.

Your only hope of survival is a vigilant scout with a full watchlist and a LS cyno. Nerf cynoing on stations and watch HS industry burn.

So, now I need 3 accounts to earn some money? Guess, I need to buy some PC upgrades after all.

Besides of that: 10 km from a Minmatar Tradepost puts the cyno a lot closer to the station (15 km more or less) than 10 km from an Amarr Military Station or Caldari Administrative station (between 30-40 km from the station). What kind of random safety is that?

Also, do you intend to push independent haulers out of business? I know for a matter of fact that I will not allow anyone except for my alts to touch my JF just because either some people simply feel the need for easy content to make their members happy or because some people know how to play the game properly. By the looks of it, you want to turn already tedious, laborious, time-consuming, ISK intensive, little appreciated, highly undervalued and underestimated work into the mess that moving super caps is. Fantastic.

#1 We used to run freighter escorts, it was slow and boring as hell. No, no one ever came to attack... they would die so quickly it wasn't fun for anyone. That's why we have Jump Freighters now.
#2 Ships/Items would cost a lot more, do you want to pay 500 mil for a basic battleship? What about 3x more for t2 modules?
#3 Bigger alliances would shrug it off, they have POS's setup and alts/scouts everywhere.

The mistake that OP makes is believing that people would still bring their jump freighters into lowsec, lining them up simply for his destructive pleasure. They would not. Lowsec trade would shrivel and die (properly die, not just the slightly dead state it is in now) and nullsec freight would be the province of larger groups only.

So no, I don't think this is a good idea.