Ships & Modules

There is something boring in being able to scan everything. CCP is rapidly removing the element of chance and excitement in finding out what the pinata holds as it cracks open. Simply making the Corp. Hangar drop items like a regular cargo hold would have been a wonderful change.

why?

Nah. You're being told “don't undock without due care”. All this change does is make Orcas sane again. You can still ISK-tank your hauls just fine.

I'm not complaining because there are idiots loving to spend hours in their day hauling crap around right and left.

This adds nothing positive to the game or player experience, does not improve the tedious part but makes it even harder.

So where is the awesome player experience and removal of the tedious farming fest a-la-Aion-Wow and click fest a-la-Diablo III with this change?
I clearly don't get it why this is so awesome apart from the awesome gank buff. The ship is not getting a bigger Ship Hangar, is not getting bigger cargo haul, nor is getting it's align/warp buff for the "give it" part, I only see a "take it" one.

Because it removes a silly black spot in the cargo carrying mechanics. Sweet and handy as it was, it was also hilariously broken.

Quite the opposite: the new inventory system was meant to make containers much more useful as “folders” for your stuff. Now if only the uninventory had worked properly… but it's getting a whole lot better with this update as well, so it might all come together in the end.

we already had folders and they were not limited by size - in fact the system was quite good. Now if you're in a fleet with anybody better hope they're honest people and will not steal whatever you put in the hangars. Goddamit

I wonder what tales the old hands would sing, had they run their freigther escorts in an environment where even small alt corps are capable of a sizeable dread hot drop.

Bolded the relevant part. When we ran freighter runs it was the most god awful boring experience. There weren't epic battles, there weren't hot drops. It was just 8+ hour ops where if a neut came within 2 systems of you, the freighter was docked up/logged off so that the shipment of Zydrine that you were carrying wouldn't be destroyed. Why Zydrine you ask? Because you mined it, that was the most lucrative thing you could do. There were no anomalies, everyone sat around and mined all week to have money to PVP on the weekend. The good old days weren't that good. I prefer having jump freighters available. It means I can stay in 0.0 to PVP or whatever and not have to make a weekly trip to empire to pick up a ship because the stations never had anything for sale.

When I lived in dullsec 12 months ago briefly, I made 16 billion in 3 months running logistics. I did one JF run, gave it up as a bad joke of a carebear activity, and went back to probing my ass through wormholes, which worked out cheaper, and got me a few ganks of my own enroute. I would get a route to Empire from Delve every 3-4 days and from Etherium Reach every 2-4.

I hear tales that IRC deploys draconian national socialist policies with regards to reporting wormholes, because it gives people in their space an ability to circumvent their carebear empire's massive industrial base, and to compete directly with their carebears on market using cheaply manufactured goods from Empire.

Seriously, if people are crying about JFs it should only be because of the fuel cost, not yearning for days of old when you couldn't survive well in dullsec because the market was borked because no one could even get a mining laser to go do this alleged mining in order to kickstart a foodchain of modules and hulls.

The biggest joke in nullsec? Hauler spawns. This is why no one really mines. A decent alliance worth of nullbears humping belts 23.5/7 can unearth enough hauler spawns to drop ridiculous volumes of low-end minerals, and make squillions in bouties while doing it.

im not a hauling geek or anything, but couldnt you just make courier contracts for stuff instead?