ARGH GOONS!

So when they devote their lows and rig to cargo expanders and a single t1 boost in the mids and die even easier than they do now, do you come back and cry for CCP to make the ships stronger because abloo bloo gankers?

Yes.

I want this to happen. Please make fitting freighters possible!!

I think ideally a properly tanked freighter should be able to survive a suicide gank that costs as much as the hull (minimum), and a poorly tanked freighter (like one with cargo expanders) should have less EHP than they have now.

Power to the players.

You can with tech 1 ships, because it's based on mineral values. Even capital ships are made out of standard minerals. You also have to add in the blueprint prices, but those are somewhat anchored based on the original blueprint price as set by the NPC corp that sells it. So capital prices will potentially change less (or more in rare cases) than sub-cap prices, but changing the mineral values changes them both. Freighter and gank ship prices will never change dramatically in proportion to one another.

Surely if CCP implemented this, they would make cargo expanders disallowed by perhaps making the space a special Freighter Bay like the barges have ore holds...

Giving you the ability to add mods seems like a good idea to me though - if only because it will mean there will be different freighter fits to contend with. At present if you know the freighters well enough you can pretty much guess their EHP and know exactly how much damage and of what type to deal. Throw in specific hardeners and such and it because less precise.

I like it.

Quite the opposite. It has been repeated over and over again because no-one can ever come up with any counter-argument to this hard limit and yet keeps suggesting a change that must result in a freighter nerf.

If all you wanted is to have a lowslot that GÇö in the end GÇö only ever is used for one module (because you have to disallow all alternatives), then it would be far better to just ask for a straight-up buff than for a change that would require all kinds of recoding and special-purpose rules.

GǪbut that would expose the reason for the suggestion (never mind that the actual suggestion is a nerf, rather than a buff) and no-one can think of a good reason why freighters need such a buff.

That's the fundamental flaw with this suggestion: it proposes to solve something that is not a problem and ends up being a massive nerf to freighters for no good reason.

for example, how many eve players would be thankful for the ability to instantly transport any and all there assets from one end of the galaxy to the other by teleportation? probably a lot. But, would it be a good mechanic? of course not