@Devs,
please reconsider the unscannable bonus to the blockade runner. as others have said, its largely a determent to this ship class. my blockade runner will now be a target for just auto-piloting to jita empty. the best case scenario would be to give this bonus to the deep space transport. this would improve the usage of this ship class, isn't that way you guys are aiming for with all the other ship balancing changes? if this isn't possible, i suggest removing it altogether. i'd rather not have my expensive blockade runners being used as pinatas wherever i go to hi-sec.

@Devs,
please reconsider the unscannable bonus to the blockade runner. as others have said, its largely a determent to this ship class. my blockade runner will now be a target for just auto-piloting to jita empty. the best case scenario would be to give this bonus to the deep space transport. this would improve the usage of this ship class, isn't that way you guys are aiming for with all the other ship balancing changes? if this isn't possible, i suggest removing it altogether. i'd rather not have my expensive blockade runners being used as pinatas wherever i go to hi-sec.

I would at least like the option to turn it off.

Ok you turn it off with nothing in your cargo hold. Question: Is the cargo empty or blocked. How does the ganker know?

I love this change - But plz don't ever, never do anything like this to my super organized and arranged corp hangars in stations which I put a lot of work into...

Nice changes, but why make the Blockade Runner's cargo unscannable?

It is already quite agile and cloaky enough to avoid trouble. It would make more sense to give this buff to the God-forsaken Deep Space Transports of which I have seen none to date.

Nice changes, but why make the Blockade Runner's cargo unscannable?

It is already quite agile and cloaky enough to avoid trouble. It would make more sense to give this buff to the God-forsaken Deep Space Transports of which I have seen none to date.

The freighter can carry MUCH more which means it is now the only viable choise for fleet mining. Sure, it's still fine for "solo" mining with a couple of alts. But when you have a dozen of ppl stripping the belt or gravy site - hauling Orca is totally useless now.
Just explain - why? What was the backgroud of that decision?

* Buy an "Elastic Shipping Container" for something like 10m ISK (affordable for those flying orcas / capitals) that has an packaged size of say 100 m3.

* You assemble it, and it turns it into an "ElasticContainerer100" with an initial volume of 100 m3.

* You fill it with items you wish to separate, a particular kind of module lets say, but need a bit more room.

* You click on it, select "resize to ..." and select a bigger size, let's say you want to store a couple of frigates along side the modules, so you select 10,000 m3.

* The servers check the size of the parent container to see if the new 10,000 m3 would fit, minus the existing container, and if it does you flip the TypeID to a new "ElasticContainer10000" type, copy / replace it if necessary, and move all the items over.

* Use them in that size as long as necessary. Maybe expand / reduce their size again multiple during the course of an op; maybe one fleet member is storing significantly more than another.

* Shrink them back down after their job is done provided their content is not oversized.

* Allow fleet hangers to have password protected cargo areas that could share space

* Not have to deal with the problems associated with shrink wrap; just spam TypeIDs for non-market containers and swap between them.

* Allow Orca / Carrier pilots to keep a few of these elastic containers always to hand to be use to partition their ships where necessary without having to haul empty cans just in case for no reason other than the code that handled a cargo bay having "dividing walls" needed to die (understandable).

* You do not need to spam hidden containers for every 100 m3 for the entire range, 25, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 7500, 10000, 15000, 20,000 etc.

* Removing the existing container from the DB and creating a new one with the same children and attributes (except TypeID) would be perfectly acceptable. If this means people have to re-open the can so be it.

* Repackaging them would return them back to a particular size "Elastic Shipping Container" which could then be sold on the market.

i can partially understand the freighter is a bigger hauler and can now pick stuff up in space part, but surely the main advatage to a mining fleet in belts etc.. is its extended tractor beam range that can pull in jet canned ore from a distance meaning less moving around in big clunky ships? fairly certain i read the devblog properly and didnt see anything about freighters using capital tractor beams or anything like that.