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Regardless of what you claim, I push for balance and entertaining mechanics.

Uh, no. Pls train comprehension to 5

Why are you here? Your only aim is to save easy gamplay from a minor nerf. At the end of the day, if you don't like having to see me have an opinion, there's a block button.

Opportunity cost is irrelevant. If opportunity cost were relevant there would be only one isk positive mechanic in the entire game.

Ed: Also you completely skipped over the part where if you consider opportunity cost to be relevant, then hauling is always isk negative, therefore in dire need of a buff.

Seems CCP are having issues

Spending how long on how many characters? Also, black frog deals with low/null JF hauling right? Doubt he'd be making that hauling in highsec.

Okay, if I am a prudent freighter pilot, then I get the benefit, but it does nothing to reduce my chances of getting ganked as they are already low. Thus, little to no benefit.

If I am imprudent--i.e. I use autopilot for example, this buff helps me as it makes it more difficult to gank me. Hence a much bigger benefit.



It is a basic result of economics. Want less of something increase the costs. Raise the cost of ganking, you'll get less of it.

Look at your supposed solution of "more expensive" ships. Unless there are commensurately more freighters with cargo that justifies that cost...less ganking.

As for risk...what? Yet another stupid thing put in a post. Risk is not just based on probabilities or a probability distribution, but also involves the costs and benefits of the activity and/or investment. For example, when insurance companies come up with policies they are looking at the costs of various outcomes.

It's makes it more difficult to gank both, even more difficult to gank a prudent pilot with a better buffer to begin with, thus from an EHP standpoint the prudent pilot gains more. However, pilots more often than not avoid being ganked through evasion, so from an ability to be caught standpoint, nothing has changed. Whatever way you swing it, a prudent pilot has gained as much or more than the imprudent pilot. The imprudent pilot will still be the one chosen to be ganked, and nothing suggests they will be ganked any less, gankers will simply have to pay marginally more to do it.

But there's no evidence of that link. In fact since ganking used to be basically free due to insurance costs and concord tanking, ganking prices have gone up and yet ganking activity has increased. Consider the burn X events alone which vastly outclass the older events.

Ganking even low value freighters is already profitable and still will be with a small increase in cost.

More personal attacks.

Adding the EHP of a charon to the tank of the obelisk is not a small increase in cost.

The part where you said hauling is negative isk, this isn't hard.



No it is not. Its is adding 157,000 EHP to the obelisk. That is a staggeringly massive change.

Not quiet.



The opportunity cost does not disappear once a choice is made.

More here.

If we're counting opportunity cost, then highsec hauling is.

No it's not, it's am minor change. It's only a massive change if EHP is the only factor in defense, which it's not. EHP is a minor factor in itself.

Well according to RFF, their average reward per jump is 890k. A jump with align in a fast freighter takes around 2 minutes on average (based on a trip from Amarr to Jita just completed) so their income rate would be 26.7m per hour. A mission blitzer can make 80-100m/h, thus even in comparison to that, they are isk negative. We could be ridiculous and compare it to trading, for example the other week I spend about 6 hours on a day, most of which was spent playing the playstation and made 60b in 3 days.

The point is that opportunity cost is always going to be irrelevant and should certainly not be used as a basis for balancing mechanics, and if it were probably wouldn't work out the way you hoped.

Lol, I'm not disputing the term exists, I'm disputing your use and specifically your use in a video game. Even in the real world, you wouldn't; say "an opportunity cost of me running by baked bean selling business is that I could instead have become a movie star and made significantly more". In terms of a game it;s no different. Opportunity cost in the way you are performing your chosen playstyle exists, but you can't pull opportunity cost based on having a completely different playstyle you've already chosen not to have.

I'm not going to continue a giant discussion around you being wrong and desperately grasping at straws. You can't count gankers choosing to be gankers as a cost, and if you CCP ever decides to start balancing based on opportunity costs vs other mechanics, I look forward to miners making over 100m per hour with nearly no risk when it's balanced again mission blitzing.

That still doesn't mean you didn't get the benefit at an equal or greater rate, and since you've yet to show me evidence that the dumb pilot would be ganked any less, in reality they've gained nothing.

Stop circling though, it's not constructive and it's certainly not going to change CCPs mind about this good change they are bringing out.