Bumping is bad game mechanic roleplaying wise.
Spaceships shouldn't bump without any damage.

I don't know if this has been thought of, but what about a deployable web? All ships within a 5km radius are slowed to minimal speed... It'd stop people bumping miners, I'm currently having to hide my barge in a group of roids for the same effect. Guy keeps ramming me with his stabber at full speed... I've told him repeatedly I'm not paying... but he continues to do it... it spoils the game. Might seem pathetic but what if CCP took out all the lasers? wouldn't that ruin it for those who like shooting stuff? I enjoy my own RP, currently mining to get an Orca, but this kid ramming me just throws it all out of wack...

The guy is the ONLY one in the system doing it... he bugs everyone... i it was a system with 3-6 of them doing it... ok but it's one looser doing it.... he needs to be moved on or something...

Why not develop a module or a rig that prevents a ship from being bumped out of alignment?

For bullies, the "ends" are merely satisfying the impulse to bully. The fact others will join them in their ends is unfortunately an historic truth.

We find bullies building elaborate justifications for their bullying behavior. For some it is the rationalization that it is all just PvP in a PvP game.

Not to mention, CCP enables and encourages bullying.

Now that's PvP Leto Thule

https://zkillboard.com/character/90841161/

Me too. Maybe Capt Starfox could clarify by stating something like:

"Every now and then sensible and fundamentally decent people will embark, all of a sudden, on courses of which they themselves are the first to disapprove. In these cases the evil-doer acts as though he were possessed by some entity different from and hostile to his ordinary self. In fact, he is the victim of a neutral mechanism, which has got out of hand and, from being the servant of its possessor, has become his master."

See if I got the quote thing right.

Did you read what I suggested? Did I say "hey, let's have CONCORD come and massacre every bumper, that sure would make them game better!"? Or did I instead suggest that gank victims get 60 seconds of being able to warp off without impediment by bumping, in essence CONCORD escorting them from the scene of the crime. Or perhaps this is what you referred to in making the game "vastly more dangerous." Please explain further.

Tank won't help you if you get bumped and hit by multiple waves of gankers. Eve is losing the new/casual players who don't want to see their life savings blown up by career -10 sec status gankers.

Highsec doesn't depend on spacefriends. It depends on being able to survive until CONCORD comes and saves you. That's what ships fit for - survive the initial alpha. What CODE is doing now is using bumping to negate the role of CONCORD.

No, what IS is all the freighters blown up yesterday because of bumping (my understanding is that bumping is used even for the initial go around. This is because if they just pointed the freighter, CONCORD would start responding, and the -10 sec status guys don't undock until the target is pinned down, and that would cut their total damage applied to the freighter).

What I want is a mechanics change so that post gank-attempt you get 60 seconds to warp off unaffected by bumping. Obviously this would not assist the freighters who die from the initial wave (and there are enough gankers in these groups so that they don't need to push the freighters off the gate guns), but I don't see any clean way to differentiate between casual and harmless bumping on the one hand, and gank-assistance bumping on the other.

The reality is that a lot of people in highsec play this game solo.

This ground has been covered before, so I will try to keep it short.

1. A lot of players in Eve find the game difficult.

Nerf train ideas

Exxcellent! I try to contact the freighter pilot victims to give advice, but they usually ignore my convo request, figuring I am a ganker looking to mock them. I will be happy to discuss further with them, and will suggest that they post on the Eve forums about how CODE is abusing bumping, and how -10 sec status people should not even be allowed in highsec.

Keep up the good work!

A few days to kill two freighters? Seriously? Loyalanon and his groupies could pull this off in a few minutes by pinning them down with bumping and having -10 sec status people swarm them. You need to find some new friends.

Of course you failed to mention that the victim had ample opportunity to avoid being bumped in the first place, but lets not allow facts to get in the way of a good whine.

Also lol, it doesn't take 20 gankers to kill a T1 hauler, it takes 1.

Not trolling...just following up on the earlier post promising to blow freighters up because of my posts here. And the failure to respond to my post soon afterward about why such threat was unconvincing and unlikely to be acted on. An apology would be appropriate of course, not that I harbor much hope....

well... this bumping effect is just silly, oki? a ruiser collide with a bs high speed, none of them got damaged, but its not enough, the bs gonna gain speed... its just silly. like when i cant warp, because an acceleration gate"bumping" me out of alligment, or an asteroid, and i got pointed, but i cant use them as a cover when i get shot. ccp, make these things uncollidable, or make us able to use them as cover against bullets, missiles -.- my frigs would like that :) and one more thing... in my opinion, if one or more ppl bumping me lets say 3 times, and this is one ppl, or they are in fleet, or same corp or alliance, it would be nice to get a duel invite from them automatically, but my fleet, corp and alliance could be ... i dont know the word for it... participate? well, if i would accept a bumping duel like this, my alliance corp and fleetmates would be able to shoot them too. think about it... escorting haulers in hisec would be a thing... it would be awesomeee =D ccp make it happen or i will bump you to death -.-

I always wondered WHY the bumping mechanics feel so wrong:

Not only there is no damage, BUT:

EvE is more an (U-)Boat Simulator!
The movement is like movement in media like water, you have to put constant energy for your impetus.

And then there is bumping:
Not only that there is no damage, the media slowing down you movement behaves even more WRONG!
This displacement of that strange media (Dark Matter LOL) would absorb a lot of the collision energy too!.
It feels so wrong, cause its very illogical
An unneccessary easy mechanic gift for the gankers

In my heart and dreams *sobs*

Which begs the question: what is your current stance?

Which begs the question: what is your current stance?

well my apologies, but I glanced through all 34 pages of this thread and didn't come across any that explained how to avoid it in the first place. or de-bump myself. can you point me in the right direction?

CCP does consider.

Otherwise this unlucky mechanic would long be gone.
However a rework could in fact mean, that humping will be removed.
HOWEVER!
IF (very big if) this happens, it is safe to assume, something will replace it.

Right now bumping is a cheap risk free action for the bumper.
On the other hand, the possible victims have it much harder to counter this cheap techniques.
That makes bumping unbalanced.