Warfare & Tactics

First Idea: Party on the Jita Undock. Grab a couple people with these things and sit there blowing people up without being CONCORDed.

Second Idea: Sweet, now instead of bumping people away from the gate to stop them from crashing the gate, we just need a ship parked in their way.

Finally, you're starting with the assumption that there is a problem and that something should be done about it. Care to elaborate on what you think the problem is and why you think it's a problem?

I demand a general speed limit in hisec.

35m/s or Concord will get you?

Skip to the very bottom for the short version.. :)

The idea that a frig can bump a freighter without turning into a pod fluid stain on the side of it is dumb. That said, I see no viable way to fix it without drastically impacting other game mechanics. Some have suggested module additions but such things should not be used to simulate a law of physics. Someone mentioned Newton's second law but the third law also applies here as well. This same fact works on a planetary scale when an asteroid impacts a planet. Upon impact both masses exert force on each other.

For simplicity lets say that the freighter was traveling at 10m/s directly at the an ibis (with AB running). Taking into account the addition of mass from the AB that puts the ibis at 1.66m kg mass. I am going to ignore the additional thrust because it really won't matter. Lets also say that the acceleration of the ibis peaks at the very moment of impact, otherwise we have to take into consideration impulse and other time factors.

Ibis (with AB) stats. This is just raw stats, no skill improvements
Mass: 1.66m
Velocity: 398.25 m/s

Freighter stats
Mass 940m
Velocity: 10 m/s

so lets apply F=MA to both of these to figure out how much force they have.
Ibis: F = 662,289,750
Freighter: F = 9,400,000,000

The third law says, "that all forces exist in pairs: if one object A exerts a force FA on a second object B, then B simultaneously exerts a force FB on A, and the two forces are equal and opposite: FA = −FB"

So this means that the freighter applies a force of 9.4b vs the ibis's force of 662m. If I've done the math right (which it prolly isn't). That freighter wouldn't even know that the ibis hit it. There is probably some other force that would get added in at the moment of impact but I lack the knowledge to compute it. I don't think that it would matter anyway given the numbers.
Lets try this again with a mwd

Ibis Stats
mass: 1.66m
Velocity: 1,475 m/s

again, F= MA right?

F = 2,452,925,000


Ok so we have a significant improvement in the amount of force applied but it still doesn't come close to the force needed to budge the freighter.

TLDR: Bumping mechanic is broken but there isn't a fix for it.

just introduce ramming instead, .25 of each damage type per 1ms of speed in addition to current bumping mechanics.
you can still bump but running an MWDing inty into the side of a freighter has the appropriate bug on windscreen affect on the inty.

Blow up All the Jita Undocks.

Wheee... CONCORD-Free Suicide Ganking.

If you're going to say "Bumping Triggers CONCORD," then:
Wheee... CONCORD doing the Suicide Ganking for us! (Simply park a ship in front of the Jita Undock and watch it get bumped by the ebil gankers undocking)

The gank squad should already be there, your ill preparation shouldn't be forgiven by a function that is relatively useless unless used in riskless aggression.

IMO, if guns don't hit object between you and another ship, why should your ship hit other ships?

I...would so do this.

Try it again with a ship people actually use to bump, and you'll see why it works. Like the 100mn MWD Fleet Stabber, which has about 13 times as much momentum as the Freighter.

Second, the direction your ship model is facing has no bearing on the vector that the server sees your ship as. That vector is what has to be pointing in the right direction to initiate warp.