No matter how u twist and turn it, this is a nerf to freighters.

If i fit Expanders (to get on cargo what they used to have), my travel time increases because of the Expanders malus on (sublight)speed.

Do if for tank, my cargo gets gimped even more (Bulkheads) or it stays at least gimped with the new defaults while gaining only very limited benefit (Nano Plates). Same for intertia stabs, nano, etc.

So, tell me in what way do these changes benefit me. I use my Providence almost exclusively to haul ores. Its ability to do that has been greatly affected by this changes in negative way. It takes longer to move the same amount no matter what i fit.

Not to mention that gankers still have the upper hand in any configuration, so freighterganks never realy got addressed as a whole from my point of view.

And JFs are utterly crap now and will be further gimped when the changes to fuel comsumption come.

Next, sublight speed is irrelevant when you select 'Warp to Zero'. Avoid selecting 'Warp to 50km' and you'll find your travel time improves quite a bit.

I had assumed that freighter pilots were a slightly more intelligent variety of carebear. (vs bot-aspirant miners). I may have to revise that assumption soon.

Please remove ability to fit adaptive nanoplating to jump freighters.

It is gamebreaking.

http://i.imgur.com/9UIlILF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pwy4m8U.jpg

How is using an official, existing since time immemorial game mechanic bot aspirant? By that logic (I guess every activity that doesn't include direct player action is considered such?), using drones, moon harvesters, siphons, manufacturing, and gas mining, sitting in station being busy doing nothing at all as well as a couple more things are all considered "bot aspirant"?

Please remove ability to fit adaptive nanoplating to jump freighters.

It is gamebreaking.

http://i.imgur.com/9UIlILF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pwy4m8U.jpg

Nobody has ever complained about the Rorqual doing this (albeit not in highsec). I don't even need shiny mods to beat that tank.

You can still get 800k ehp with under 1 bil implants and under 400m fittings on a ship that costs 7b

And reward for that is being invincible.

If there is a 100man gang waiting for you your alt can see it, if you get bumped you jump out and anything less than that just straight won't kill you.

you don't need any implants or low slots to jump out.

So we expect that most Freighter and Jump Freighter pilots will use their three low slots to mix and match the following modules to meet their needs:
Expanded Cargoholds
Reinforced Bulkheads
Hyperspatial Accelerators (warp speed modules)
Inertia Stabilizers
Overdrive Injector Systems
(For certain armor tanking fits) Adaptive Nano Platings
(For Jump Freighters) Capacitor Power Relays
(For Jump Freighters after the Crius release) Jump Fuel Conservation Modules

Perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but my understanding is that I'm supposed to be able to fit Reinforced Bulkheads to my freighter, however in the game right now (2014-06-18), all Reinforced Bulkheads' Show Info from the Market shows that they need 16-40 tf of CPU to fit, but the freighter (Obelisk here) has only 1.2 tf of CPU available.

Sorry if this was answered earlier in the thread, but eve search sucks and I didn't want to page through 137 pages to find one question/answer. :( The OP itself mentions Reinforced Bulkheads:

So we expect that most Freighter and Jump Freighter pilots will use their three low slots to mix and match the following modules to meet their needs:


However, when I go to actually fit the Reinforced Bulkhead, it uses up 0 tf of CPU. :)

Show Info from fitted Reinforced Bulkhead II = 0 tf
Show Info from Market for Reinforced Bulkhead II = 40 tf.

check stats on freighter bonuses, 100% reduction in CPU requirements

Also curious when those fuel conservation modules are due. 50% increase in fuels to jump around made the patch ;( which is how i make a living in the game so this was very tough on us haulers.