Driven
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Posted - 2006.07.02 04:31:00 -
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Seeing as how my thread on this topic was locked by the forums mods because they said it was duplicative to the topic at hand, I'm forced apprarently to respond to here:
 My thread about "Living in an Alternate Freighter Reality" wasn't intended to be focused as much upon the coming changes - unfair as they are - but my taking issue with Wrangler and what must be the alternate reality that he must live in to state what he stated about the changes.
Wrangler said "Knowing what pirates are like, they were going to blow up freighters anyway, so it's more good news for pirates, but not really bad news for freighter pilots."
Perhaps I'll state my opinion about that more clearly: If Wrangler or any Developers or GMs truly believe this is not bad news for Freighter pilots, then they are on *****. Period. Clear enough?
I think they are talking through their hats on this on, thus the low profile and lack of responses to numerous credible issues raised by the non-twitch-and-drool crowd.
We get nothing on the flipside of this nerf. No Freighter slots, no converse use of the Freighter to pick up cans, no help. Just one more producer nerf after a long line of producer nerfs.
Everyone can see what is coming from a mile away - and those who claim its going to be impossible to round up a gang to pull off these ganks, that it cannot be coordinated, know better.
The myth that its going to take a giant fleet of Ravens, etc. has already been blown up as well, with the analysis done by one inventive player, who has calculated the cost of an empire gank on a Freighter at 150M isk:
7x dhp T2 [5mil isk]
3x sensor booster, or 2x sensor booster 1x 20km [basic stuff so free]
3x dmg mod T2 [1.2mil]. 5x 1600mm [1mil isk]
5x thermal sentry drones [300k]
total cost of equipment 7.5mil isk [assume 1/3 survives, thats like 5mil isk loss]
damage output near enough 900DPS
now a gedden can be bought for 52.5mil isk [bulk or build urself] and pays out 66.25. now i think it costs 22mil to insure a gedden fully [correct me if this is wrong] so you loose after insurace about 7.75 mil isk for the ship
so thats 15.25mil isk lost per ship.
Now assume in all that, that the ships last 20 seconds, thats roughly 20k damage each gedden does. take a caldari freighter, has about 185k raw HP to lasers, lets say 200k HP.
would take you 10 such geddens to pull it off, assuming that the prediciton of 20sec life span for the ship is correct!
so total cost of downing one freighter with t2 kitted cheap geddens is roughly 150mil isk, less than a hac
I hope when we get the next producer nerf we'll at least get a genuine explanation of it, and who knows, maybe even some *gasp* logic, instead of this kind of flippant pablum.
Oh, and thanks, Jacques, for locking my thread for no good reason. Pretty dodgy judgment if you asked me, given the number of topics this ill-considered change has spawned.
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