In the context of this thread, regards to freighter ganking, yes it is. It directly relates to ganking ability, frequency and profitability. If catalysts cost 100 million each because material costs to build them was increased there would not be catalysts ganking.

Since the next best thing, cruisers cost 5 x more (due to material costs) ganking freighters overall would be more expensive and overall ganks on freighters would likely decrease.

Only temporarily until people train up to fly a Brutix or Talos.

Freighter ganking isn't as frequent as you seem to think it is, so your cost balancing argument is entirely irrelevant.

you mean aside from the fact that your ill thought idea has knock on consequences that will require time and effort to fix when instead CCP can carry on ignoring the dumb people who fill their freighter with all their worldly goods and hit undock.

yeah i know, let's make a load of issues just to protect dumb people.

hint; ccp have never protected dumb people, that's why scamming is a perfectly legitimate profession in eve.

Even this freighter
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=19440276
was killed by them because it dosnt cost them anything really worthfull (sec status is for an 00 alliance not a problem and of course you can buy it easy after the last patch if you need it)

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

"ccp have never protected dumb people"

Yeah , that's why ccp make pop a window when someone try to buy a item + 100% of the average price , i believe

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

You realise that we ganked freighters using Talos' for an entire year right?

Ganking an empty freighter is not profitable.

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

Which is why freighters need a HP buff or tank fitting ability. To drive up the cost of ganking to a point it was originally at, profitable to gank a pi+¦ata but not an empty freighter or just carrying a typical cargo.

No.
And before you try again,

let's make this clear once again: no matter what label you try to use, the answer will still be no, because you're still assuming the wrong direction of the relationship.

Confirming once again that the only reason people gank freighters is for profit. Repeat, nothing in EVE is ever done just for laughs.

You'll have to forgive me for making sure we're on the same page

The other direction would be a balancing factor is a material requirement.

If you're doing it for ***** and giggles you shouldn't have an issue with CCP making it less profitable?

The other direction would be a balancing factor is a material requirement. That doesn't make sense to me.

The other direction would be that balance is a factor in cost; that cost is a product of balance. You know, the things you've been trying to reverse every time I've mentioned it?

Also you might want to edit out your offensive remark.

i hope this **** becomes a weekly thing for love squad

highsec is such a huge untapped tear reservoir of tears

Freighter pilots have nothing on miners, the amount of tears, threats and vitriol they produce will keep you going for years.

You might want to add sarcasm tags Domanique, S Byerley will take your post as proof that freighters die every 20 minutes, regardless of the facts.

Yeah they need to be able to fit a tank. Give them fitting abilty. Its pretty stupid an orca can be fit to have 3 times the HP of a freighter.

You'll get a lot of idiots coming into this thread saying theres no problem but they make a living off ganking freighters so theyre biased. You'll also get people who are fanboys of the latter but neither will have a reasonable or sustainable argument so likely you'll get flamed.

I don't gank nor use freighters and its clear to me that when freighters were introduced without fitting it took a sizeable battleship force to kill one. Things have changed a lot and freighters need a rethink.

Material requirements are set by CCP; how can they be a product of balance?

Unless you're trying to say that CCP balances ships and then sets material requirements based on that balance - in which case the distinction is purely philosophical and obviously not appropriate to make here.

You might want to add sarcasm tags Domanique, S Byerley will take your post as proof that freighters die every 20 minutes, regardless of the facts.