Jump freighter usage is all about cargo, cargo, cargo. Increasing your cargo reduces the number of trips you have to make, period, which serves to both reduce the amount of fuel you consume and the amount of time you spend running cargo.

stop making things worse n call it improvement

the way this game is goin really dissapoints me and just will end up n me and a whole bunch of other players leaving this game

ll a 7 bil ship just for lol with several t1 destroiers? where is the "balance" in that? where is the well known "risk vs reward" slogan you tossing around so proud?

but really, this should be an "industry patch" buff and you are nefing the core of the industrial ships??? let me ask again: how out of touch are you with this game?

none of this works if you aren't absolutely awful. it's all avoidable.

[quote=Cyrek Ohaya]

You must not use a JF. It makes the transition back to high sec. To do that it jumps to low sec and then has to go thru a high sec gate like everyone else..and there it can get ganked. There is the risk. Because you warp to 0 and jump its near impossible to get you on the low sec side. They do the high sec gank thing.

In jumping out of null/npc stations there is risk though not as much as before. Certain stations have almost no zero range at undock. What they do is wait above the station with a bumping ship and bubblers (null). You undock and they bump you away from zero while the guy puts a bubble up so you can't jump and you are bumped so you can't get back in. Then drop in the killing fleet and you are dead. No it doesn't happen much but it does. Just pointing out there is risk in cyno'ing.

Also this isn-¦t going to hit only freighter pilots. Industrial changes are risky, these changes are just dumb. And there are many CiFi games coming out in the last quarter of the year that doesn-¦t involve hauling s*** in the most boring mechanic posible while risking 60Gé¼ (+cargo) in virtual pixels.

Most of the items that players use are TII, in order to build TII you need material of all across the galaxy/server, are these materials going move by themselves to our local infrastructure?

Attempting to force as much as possible of the production of *everything* to be local by limiting ease of long distance logistics, would basically be the same as asking the players to do double effort on a *massive* scale. Meaning that it won't happen. It will just result in price increases across the board.

Time is money. Forcing players to do double effort for the same outcome means increased prices.

You mean similar to how local prices on the street go down in the real world, when local trade barriers go up?

I don't think so...

They could always just make freighters immune to scanning
That would cause a ruckus, but would be more in line with the risk/reward
Freighter ganking has zero risk, except maybe the loot fairy, and all the rewards

Getting a group together, I can imagine is challenging and requires organizational skills

Do remember that you are already effectively nerfing JF;s with the jump fuel consumption changes, im not seeing why they need additional nerfs. Nor do I see how JF's were contributing to power creep as since empire is central, and jfs move goods from the central location empire to the war front, not matter which front your fighting on HS is usually about the same distance away for both sides. Living in Deep null, it is already pretty expensive to move out to null and back, a 50% increase in cost is going to make a big difference in cost for those of us that are 5 jumps deep.