EVE General Discussion

Webbing Tip#2: Hyenas are easy to train for, really fast moving (even with web aggro, they'll still have no problem getting ahead of your freighter) and get a nice fat web range bonus and best of all because they pretty much have no other use, silly cheap.

[Hyena, Freighter's Friend]
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Limited 1MN MicroWarpdrive I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script

Improved Cloaking Device II
Salvager I
Salvager I

Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I

Actually one of them was locked because you're not allowed to reopen locked threads by recreating the OP, which is what OP has done here.

- Avoid the systems where a lot of freighter ganks happen. Prevention is better than having to solve a problem.

- Gank them before they can gank you.

- A special mercenary taskforce that patrols the tradelanes and guards freighters (at a cost) could become reality when Retribution comes out, but can already work nicely now. (GCC = free-for-all)

- Get a squad of T1/T2 logistics ships that repair the freighter, extending the time required to gank it, which I hope for your sake is enough time for Concord to respond to the gankers.

- All of the above combined pretty much guarantee you won't lose your freighter. It's still possible, but if a ganker group sees a freighter being escorted by a blob of logistics and combat ships, ready to gank the gankers, they know they're in trouble.

- Alternatively: complain and whine on GD and FI forums. (least effective)

@ Destiny, didn't sound like whining to me, sounded like he just wanted some helpful suggestions on how to deal with it. Sounds like you are the one whining that yet another individual has come to the forums for assistance and they must clearly be looking to CCP to change the system. Not because they just wanted realistic suggestions on what to do, eg take small support fleet etc

But thank you for your incredibly helpful reply which has obviously assisted GD with reaching its dailly quota of douchebag

Move to lo or null. You will still get ganked but it will be less embarrassing.

1. Don't haul Plex's EVER. There is a simple game mechanic that allows you to move plexs with ZERO risk. If you are too lazy to research it than you deserve to lose them.

2. Crystal and Slave implants are your friend.

3. A fleet booster is also your friend.

4. Double wrapping helps, as will numerous little valueless items mixed in with visible cargo.

5. For small high value BPO's etc, a cloaky transport ship that aligns really fast will limit your vulnerability time to almost zero.

6. Forget that autopilot even exists! It will just get you killed.

Skip weekend hauling and peak hours also. I mean who wants to go to Jita on the weekend. Just the spam overload is enough to keep me away.

Dat tinfoil

Please tell me how a gank squad knows how many accounts any given pilot has.
Please tell me how CCP is "ignoring a problem" rather than saying "working as intended".

Let me tell you about my day a few days ago.

I'm standing on a corner. I'm very ''situational awareness' minded. I can hear the beeps from the little buttons on the cross walk system, the ones that help blind people to know when the lights are changing. They are broke. They are both chirping and when you hit either button, nothing changes. They both keep chirping the same as they were.
I know they are broke. Suppose a blind guy gets hit by a car and bounces off the hood next week. It won't be my fault. True I could take 5 minutes out of my life and email a city official to tell them the audio system on that corner is broken but I didn't. While it isn't my fault, I could have helped.

CCP know using autopilot isn't what it used to be. They do nothing. It isn't their fault but they do nothing.

Cause and effect.

I suppose you could argue that it didn't sound like whining. However if you presume that they "just wanted realistic suggestions" then you also have to jump to the conclusion that they were utterly incapable of switchin the ol' brain on long enough to come up with the basic stuff offered up in this thread (which has been suggested probably dozens of times since this last round of freighter ganking began.)

At any rate, the OP is a thinly veiled attempt to have CCP change the system. Why you ask, well here's why:

1.The suggestions in this thread are well known, borderline common knowledge.
2. The OP isn't popping his forum cherry right now, he's seen all this before.
3. This is his third thread on the same topic, the other two have been locked, recently.
4. He was precise in his wording, he wants to "nullify" hi sec freighter ganking, not "mitigate", not "reduce", not "make less frequent or more difficult or more expensive", he simply wants to nullify freighter ganking. (see definition below before you try to further mince words)

(nullify [ˈnʌlɪˌfaɪ]
vb -fies, -fying, -fied (tr)
1. (Law) to render legally void or of no effect
2. to render ineffective or useless; cancel out)

5. In order to make ganking ineffective, useless, or cancel it out...in otherwords to nullify it, you WOULD in fact have to change gameplay mechanics, as currently ganking is "possible" by definition.

TL;DR Yes, yes the OP is in fact "looking to CCP to change the system"