Crime & Punishment

Very true, though I think the point being made is that you don't need to have a high sec status for the puller or ganker for hyperdunking, so why even recycle the alts?

As said before gankers do not care about sec status and any change on it will have zero effect. And your change basically means instead of free to shoot @ -5.0 free to shoot at @ -X.0, well gankers wont care and not gonna be on the "reactive" or "defensive"

That is not our problem :)

Your "fix" doesn't make it any less true, very few people bother to shoot at criminals and suspects regardless of whether or not the available mechanics are used to prevent them from doing so.

There's not that many hyperdunkers so the change won't affect many gankers; they'll just keep on throwing ships at stuff.
*shakes head sadly* You weren't doing too badly, and then this..

Asking CCP to stop tilting things even further in favour of whinebears is not the same as whining and asking for silly stuff.

Not hate, just think incredibly silly. Of course, you have a reputation for wanting an incredibly unbalanced game in your favour, so it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that your ideas are bonkers.

Please do tell about my 'incredibly unbalanced' proposals while you bump freighters without reasonable conuters, can't be intercepted while traveling to freighters in hi-sec while using -10 chars and then safely loot wrecks. Do tell, please.
Anyway, I'm sure everyone (in code) thinks my ideas are bonkers. However, it seems that tilting is stronger then your opinions.

Without reasonable counters?

Well yes the use of one friend to give a freighter almost guaranteed safe passage, does at first glance look unreasonable. But it's a long standing use of the web mechanics and the majority are fine with it's use, so I'm not sure I agree with you.

Don't some AG peeps shoot wrecks? I'm sure I read one of them boasting about it and I think that's also a fine use of mechanics.

Using webber alt can be easily countered (as codies illustrated many times), and once freighter is being bumped the only reliable counter is ganking the bumper. Everything else is extremely situation and not nearly as effective as bumping, with bumper not risking much. However, we've had this conversation too many times, excuse me for not being in the mood to repeat same old things for the 10th time.

Furthermore, I was sarcastic with those ideas about criminal chars, although now that I think, they might be good since all the amount of whining coming from codies would be marvelous.

As for the rest - my actual proposals regarding freighter ganking are basically focused on two things - providing reliable counter to bumping (once bumps land) through active gameplay, without requiring gank of the bumper and removing safe looting mechanics. This can be easily checked if you read my previous posts. Pretty much that.
If that somehow makes ganking freighters 'incredibly unbalanced' then my judgment is incredibly distorted due to being with AG for too long. However, I don't think anything there is even close to incredible imbalance, but there is a lot of what codies like to often do - incredibly spin and distort other people's words.

Now if we were to talk about how to make codies foam around their mouths, we could talk about:
- making freighters more resilient (give them more EHP's to start with, something similar to base carrier EHP since they are similar in resource requirements and costs)
- provide them with native MJD capabilities
- do all of my sarcastic proposals
- remove tags for sec status
- completely remove the ability of -5 and below chars to move in anything other then shuttles/pods in hisec (with appropriate changes to sec status mechanics)
- further increase CONCORD response times
- do not apply criminal agression to extention of logoff timers in hisec
- remove insurance from suspect chars in hisec
- prevent ability of suspects to reship in space in hisec etc.
None of these things would remove ability to gank, it would only make more costly and complicated to perform.
Furthermore, do note - except for maybe suspect changes, I DO NOT ADVOCATE ANY OF THE ABOVE CHANGES, but considering how aggressive and intolerant of different opinions codies are in protecting everything about their gameplay, I wouldn't object much if they were implemented.

I may have responded to you once or twice before, but I don't believe we've had this conversation 'many times'

You should be able to counter the use of a webber alt. I'm glad is not totally guaranteed. If it was, I would agree webbing is unreasonable. But it's very effective and only takes one friend. Awesome.

The CODE may have countered webbers and I'm sure you have proof of that. But then I'm also sure they have failed to counter many more. Conjecture in this, is hardly a way to decide on how easy it is. Or isn't

I didn't read the rest, it looked like you went into rant mode. Sorry.