There are no tech 2 drone control units.

A fact that I consider highly unfortunate.

If there were, however, they would surely consume 40CPU, 2PG, and reside in the solitary low slot of a rebalanced freighter.

If you can't fill a freighter's cargohold with the least expensive cargo possible, without it being cost-effective to gank it, while giving the pilot ZERO options for altering the survivability of his vessel, it's a FAIL design.

THAT is why so many of us say that ganking is too easy. Not because idiots are locking everything that comes through a gate, but because the Industrialists and Haulers have NO VIABLE OPTIONS IN HOW TO FIT THEIR VESSELS.

If it makes YOUR 'fun' more difficult, awwww, poor baby, too bad. That's what you gankers have been telling hauler pilots for years.

Yes, I know some of you are going to threaten revenge for (insert whatever you want here).

Too bad.

EVE Online is PVE. PVP is what DRIVES EVE Online. The desire for fights, space, vengeance, and much more, but it's all based upon PVE.

You can disagree all you want to, but, at its core, PVE is what enables all of the PVP.

Wether it's mining (yes, all of you nullsec hardcases, MOON MINING IS STILL MINING - it's just the ultimate in AFK PVE), manufacturing, ratting, Faction Warfare, trading (yes, at the highest levels, trading is PVP, but not to 99% of the PEOPLE doing it), or mission-running, PVE is what EVE is based upon.

NO ONE can pay for their PVP by only doing PVP. Your SRP is paid for by corp or alliance taxes, which, ultimately, are generated by PVE. Your Faction Warfare ships are paid for by the PVE portion of FW, not just by 'pew-pew.'

Just because someone doesn't want to PVP doesn't mean they're "doing it wrong." Quite the contrary - they're doing it how they want to. They're paying their subscription fee to CCP, and getting something they enjoy in return.

THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the ultimate sandbox. Stop your moronic, short-sighted, and stupidly egotistical sneering at those evil, lazy, cowardly, and dirty mission-runners - who do you think just bought that X-Type X-Large Shield Booster from you? Some idiot looking to pad your killboard in the next fleet fight? Of course not.

Some people want to 'pew-pew!' Nothing wrong with that. Others just want to build things. Great - someone has to make new stuff to replace the losses, or supply new doctrines.

Others just want to have the shiniest, most ISK-per-module 'blinged-out' "ain't no rat gonna kill this" mission-running ship. It's a goal - just like that top-end Bougatti you'll never even come close to pushing to its limits.

So, stating that EVE is only a 'harsh, cold, dangerous place' is, at best, myopic - it merely goes to show how self-centered you are. I've made great friends of people I'll probably never meet in person. I've spent time enjoying solo play, and I've been one more name in local during huge fleet fights.

EVE is what you make of it - but it's all paid for by PVE. No PVE, no PVP.

Yes, it really is that simple.

What about officer ones

I'm not really so sure about that. It might turn out to be a little OP to put an officer mod on a freighter.

Takes just under a Billion in 'nados to gank a typical freighter.

So you want to change freighters? That was the whole point of this Eve is PvE thing? I've hauled all kinds of stuff in my Crane. Never had a problem. I am guessing that a lot of freighter pilots get along just fine. But something tells me that you are very angry and passionate about this crusade which leads me to guess that you have had problems that other freighter pilots have not. Am I off the mark here?

Nope. Haven't lost one yet. I simply hate the fact that freighter pilots have zero choice in regards to the survivability of their ship.

Nope. Haven't lost one yet. I simply hate the fact that freighter pilots have zero choice in regards to the survivability of their ship.

Yeah, because it's not like you people haven't been screaming at CCP to make ganking harder for years now or anything. Why put a little effort in to making yourself less likely to be ganked when you can just beg CCP to do it for you?

I trust you see the irony of a Goon making the above statement?

What I mentioned specifically was the fact that a freighter pilot has no choice in how many Catalysts it will take to kill his ship.

I can think of at least six options without even trying.

They do, they just choose not to use to available options. I've never been in the habit of begging CCP to make my playstyle easier because finding a counter was too much effort.

Please - elaborate at length!

What choice does a freighter pilot have in determining how many Catalysts it will take to kill his Obelisk?

At best, the pilot can plug in a few implants. Nothing else he has direct control over has any effect upon the EHP of his ship.

Alone among all ship classes, a freighter pilot has no fitting options.

EHP is not the only factor.

A freighter pilot can:

1. Use alts/friends to web him
2. Use Slave/LG Slave implants for more EHP (works best with armor freighters)
3. Use LG Nomad implants for agility
4. Fly JF instead for extra agility and EHP (costs quite a bit more though)
5. Use an alt/friend in a boosting ship to increase EHP
6. Take routes around common freighter ganking sites (e.g. Niarja) instead of going through them
7. Avoid autopilot
8. Use instant dock and undock bookmarks to avoid being cargo scanned at the most likely location (trade hub undocks)
9. Fly only through systems with higher security status to decrease CONCORD response time (which directly increases the DPS required to kill you)
10. Fly with combat escort (some jamming ships would be great for this)
11. Fly with logi escort
12. If you're being bumped as a setup for a gank, log off
13. Most importantly, don't fly with cargo worth ganking over

Every ISK generated in this game ultimately comes from three places: Mission rewards, rat bounties, and sales to NPC merchants (read: tags and general goods). That's it, nothing else.

On that note, buffing freighters to have more EHP isn't going to have the effect these whiners think it would have.
Freighter EHP increases -> freighter pilots get more confident -> freighter pilots carry more expensive cargo -> ganking becomes profitable again.

Wrong.

Sorry - I don't count ganking as PVP - it's a PK activity, pure and simple.

That stated, what else do you term as 'PVP paying for itself?'

Wrong.

So EVE is not a PVP game because you have a different opinion about what it describes compared to the rest of the world? Well, enjoy PVE then, while the rest of us enjoy doing the same under the nave PVP...

Citation needed. Your shallow pretentiousness alone just doesn't cut it, sorry.

You're missing incursion rewards (doesn't fall under mission rewards as it's a separate mechanic), new characters entering the game (admittedly a very small faucet), and insurance.