Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Warning: I might not know beans.

Goods still seem to be moving steadily across the galaxy. I have not seen players in the Haulers Channel complaining that they are being driven out of business by freighter losses and replacement costs. The fees haulers will accept for contracts (and the maximum amount of cargo they decide to carry) are balanced against the expenses of replacing their occasionally ganked freighters (including the lost contract collateral). CCP reports only mild long term in-game inflation, so the costs of moving goods must not be spiraling out of control.

I'm wondering if the current ganking threat to the average freighter might be exaggerated.

The way things are now, hauling involves interesting choices of risk vs. reward:
Will you use an industrial, a freighter, or a jump freighter?
How valuable a cargo/collateral are you willing to risk?
Are you willing to travel in low-sec? Null-sec?
Will you make the trip alone?
Will you wait until a quieter time of day? What about weekends?
Which star systems will you travel through, and how slowly and cautiously?

If the devs make freighters safer to fly, some of that interesting gameplay gets lost.

They already have a choice. Do they stuff 10 bil into the hold or not.

We'd be stupid not to.

I completely agree.

But anyone who uses an NPC alt, is not in a position to criticize those who stay in an NPC corp to avoid wardecs etc.

Just checked, no one on my two accounts (one alt on each) is in an NPC corp.

But that is just my personal preference.

Folk are entitled to use whatever game mechanics they see fit as long as it is not against CCP rules.

Its called an orca.

ability to make ur own plastic wrap would be simpler (or even courier urself)... for some reason ccp doesnt allow it

I smell troll.

I think it could be nice to allow rigs for freighters/JFs. It would allow huge load of new possibilities-faster warp, better cargo, more armor/shield.... I also wonder why we still dont have capital size rigs, as they are in the database but werent introduced ingame. But thats another story.

Freighters should be guarded by combat ships. The aggro mechanic should be that if any member of your fleet is fired upon, your whole fleet can fire upon any of the aggressors fleet.

Fleets should be flagged for aggro, not single pilots.

Back to the top.

Simple:
1. Freighters, and whatever Industrial ships CCP have in store for us in their upcoming Tiercide need some serious buffing.
Top priority should be Freighters though, period.

2. The whole Freighter-bumping-100KM-from-the-jump-gate-phenomena, that's simply designed to have CONCORD reach you when it's already too late (since like you, they don't warp to objects that are too near) should be eliminated.

So many Ganking-lobbyists and Ganker-yes-men in this thread.. That's just sick.

Even more so is people trying to make an invalid point out of those who want to keep their identity - and their expensive Freighters that cost 15 times more than your average disposable 'nado (and an additional x25+ times that in actual cargo worth) - safe.

Here's an idea:
Head back into low/null-sec, and kindly ask your CEOs, FCs and r/l buddies to have you pull the trigger on stuff that actually matters instead on hapless Freighters in Hi-sec.

You remember your "true" enemies, right?! Well here's a reminder:
It's not CONCORD or its gank-this-Freighter-in-20-seconds-or-you're-toast-timer, no.

It's those rivaling Corp/Alliance's fighter pilots who fly actual fighter ships. You know, the ones that you graciously ignore cause of messed up deals under the table.