EVE Search - Threshold for ganking a Freighter should be higher? Discuss

Mark Munoz wrote:

Core Researcher wrote:

FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:

Core Researcher wrote:

In the particular case of suicide ganking it DOES matter the comparative costs of the ships.

What you're suggesting is that the entire game be bent around the issue of suicide ganking. You want freighters to be harder for EVERYONE to kill, because they might be ganked. Alternatively, you want to make popular gank ships more expensive--or freigheters less expensive--in order to rectify this perceived imbalance.

Core Researcher wrote:

You know how I know this?

Mining barges.

it would take a LOT of catalysts to equal the value of a hulk. Far more than are required to gank one. You just lost the debate for yourself, well done.

ill bite.

If you are at war and u catch a freighter would double the EHP matter? triple?
You catch it in low sec, null sec, wormhole space, would it really matter?

You are zeroing in on the "make this more expensive" or "this less expensive" aspect.

What is really being debated here is an increase in EHP for a freighter, not an increase in cost for anything. The OP didnt make that clear but we're all clever dudes here in EvE right?

I dont see your point on the Hulk either tbh?

Hulks were cheap to gank. Mining barges were buffed and players were given an option of tank or yield. So now it takes many more SUICIDE GANKERS to kill a tanked mining ship.

So what was your point exactly and how did i lose any debate?

If I could speak for him I think he is referring to the fact that even the most tanked hulk can be ganked with less than 60 million in ships. The people ganking freighters are also SUICIDE GANKERS so I am not sure what your point in emphasizing that is.

Essentially what he is saying is you gave the example of the exhumer buff to show how CCP agrees with you. He is saying they don't as people are still ganking tanked exhumers all day long and for a fraction of the cost of the exhumer. The only explanation I can think of for your logic is making TANKED exhumer ganking no longer a solo activity. Again though nobody is solo-ganking any freighters so either way your logic is flawed.

The core thing here is cooperation. Freighters are ungankable by any other single player while trucking through hisec. It takes literally a team of people to stop you. So it is only fair it should also take a freighter a team of people to counter the gankers.

I think lots of players of this game forget that CCP's goal with this game was to make it as close to real life as possible. Do you see Banks security trucks running around town with just a driver picking up and dropping off loot? If you are under consideration for a gank in your freighter you are hauling enough to warrant a team, otherwise you are indeed just a lowly trucker that will likely have a very uneventful day. Use the brain-tank.