Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If a freighter died every 20 minutes on average, then we'd be killing more than 30-45 per month by a huge amount. Earlier when I went through the killboard you referenced there was only 12 instances of freighters dying 18-25 minutes apart. All of the other kills made on the same day were hours apart. This does not make 20 minutes the average, not by a longshot.

Less than running level 4 missions.

Right here you stated categorically that freighters get ganked every 20 minutes or so.

BTW the statement above is an example of a strawman, an accidental strawman, but a strawman nonetheless.

Who's the arse?

You'll have to clarify; people claim anywhere from 20m to 200m/hr for level 4 missions.

Here's a ballpark figure for you. Asuming that 20 people are out ganking freighters for 8 hours a day for the last 365 days & around 2 trillion in loot has dropped, each would earn 34,246,575 isk per hour. However, since a significant portion of that isk goes towards ships & incentives to keep the SIG going it's more like 10m an hour per person. Then add in that for a year we were using Talos to gank & the figure drops to around 2m per hour. Ganking freighters isn't as profitable as people seem to think, but oh boy is it hilarious.

Less than the isk/hr of running level 4 missions (which earn 40m per hour per account at best).

Let me put it this way.

We got 3 billion in taxes in one day from one guy and his alts. Our tax is at 5%...


Anyone going with just one account will be splitting the isk with at least 15 other people so while freighter ganking is good money it doesn't pay as well as doing level 4 missions over the same time scale.

Ladies and gentleman, we are now at that sad point in a doomed thread where a bitter clinger attempts to deflect attention from some asinine thing he said earlier, by calling for others to offer proof of something utterly and completely unrelated to the actual matter at hand.

If this were a short play, we would be well into the third act.

You should have thought of that before sperging your crap on the forums. Context is important, so important that you should have actually clarified exactly what you meant at the time.

Your "context" started 2 pages later, when you'd already been called out on your ridiculous statement by numerous people who had checked the facts, something you neglected to do, and actually know what they're talking about.

Come winter if plans don't change we are going to be earning ever more if you get a kronos.

Uh... making the generous assumption that "one day" = 24hr:

3b*20/15/24 = 167m/hr



You've somehow mistaken malleability for desperation. I have no invested interest and as such will work with whatever bizarre direction people feel like taking the thread in. However, I honestly fail to see how asking someone politely how much he makes ganking freighters is either calling for proof or unrelated to Freighter balance.