Because people asked for this nerf. We tried to tell them that it was going to be a nerf, but they wanted it anyway because the prospect of more m-¦ suppressed all rational thought.

The point here is to give people something they've been asking for for a very long time. They asked for something dumb, so they got something dumb. Go figure.

Because it wouldn't be GÇ£power creepGÇ¥ GÇö it would be a ridiculously overpowered mega-buff. Counter-balancing the potential bonuses from rigs with nerfs to ensure that the end results were not insane was inevitable.

GǪoh, and power creep itself is bad, especially for a ship class that didn't particularly need any buffs.

GǪexcept that it's the rigs themselves that make it huge. Unless you want to nerf all capital rigs, or introduce a completely new rig category, the freighters would have to be nerfed to accommodate the potential rig bonuses.

And that's part of the point: it would have to accommodate all of those potential bonuses GÇö after all, all eventualities will have to be balanced GÇö and the rigs would only be able to counteract one of the nerfs. So no matter how much you restrict the bonuses, be it by inventing new rigs or by limiting the number of rigs, or by nerfing the rigs, or by limiting which rigs can be fitted, the ship nerf to compensate will have to be the worst imaginable for every single stat and the sum total of those nerfs will always end up as a net nerf for the final fitted ship as a whole.

This is hardly rocket science, and therefore it is not even remotely surprising that we get this kind of change: because anything else would make them silly overpowered and completely imbalanced.

Cant do that, the nerfs are needed to keep them balanced. (Aside from that agility nerf)

I spent years telling people this is what would happen and now we all get to suffer together.

pull out all the numbers you want, but they are what they are in order to keep things balanced when people got the rig slots they so desperately desired.