Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2016.10.06 15:15:32 -
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DrysonBennington wrote:
Give the freighter limited invulnerability just like the Rorqual. Not as powerful and wouldn't last as long but it would still allow the freighter to possibly survive the attack.
Rorqual lives in dangerous places where there is no CONCORD. The panic button is already probably way too overpowered, but at least is it reasonable to hold tackle on things outside of HiSec.
DrysonBennington wrote: Maybe this would be a good time to introduce a Freighter Escort Ship that would project a field of invulnerability around the freighter. The field would cycle every 30 seconds and would remain off for one minute. During the thirty second cycle the freighter would have 99.9% resists for shield and armor.
Any mass ganking would require the escort ship to be taken out first.
Have you heard of a webbing alt? Apparently not. I hear catalysts have issues attacking you while in warp.
I still can't believe how often something like this comes up. I have probably lost more ships and ISK worth of assets than most people in this thread, and yet I have never lost one of my JFs or freighters. You have to be criminally negligent to lose a freighter in Hi Sec.....
A)Scout
B)Web
C)Bulkheads
D)Check zKill, etc.
E)Have an escape cyno for JFs, Better yet, two.
There are already so many tools to prevent freighter loss in HS. If you are still losing them, you are just plain not playing attention. When it does become truly risk free, it will no longer be a profitable profession - why pay for anything when its effortless to do with zero risk? You pay for the time and expertise, but the most of the suggestions, including this one, just make it way too easy to be bad at freighting, and still actually get the cargo from point A to point B.
As a freighter pilot, I wish CCP would make HiSec more dangerous, so that people who actually learn the rules can expect to make more ISK from their efforts and specialization. It is so tilted against the ganker at this point as to be comedic, but not as comedic as the calls for 'one more nerf'.
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Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2016.10.06 16:54:43 -
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SurrenderMonkey wrote:[quote=Diana Kim]Skill-wise, they do not require the capital ships skill, and they're allowed in high sec. By most relevant criteria, they do not function as capital ships.
They can have a doomsday device used on them. That be a capital.
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Vic Jefferson
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Posted - 2016.10.06 20:33:33 -
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The biggest difference between normal caps and freighters is that good capital pilots will lose caps, and good freighter pilots will never lose a freighter.
I know the first because I am a good capital pilot, and I know the latter because I am a good freighter pilot. Good capital pilots will put their ships into combat where the sheer damage being done ensures some loss. Good freighter pilots will never be red boxed.
Honestly they need to make freighters much easier to gank. It's simply too easy to prevent an accident.
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