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I love how you present bumping mechanic as something which has been intentionally developed to reduce safety of freighters whereas CCP employees (Fozzie) refer to it as a "wonky side-effect of" eve's "physics system". Lovely spin, as usual, shame there's an ever increasing amount of clear statements and data working against you.

As for -10's running around hisec, I'm impressed by your knowledge of CCP's intended design goals. You must be Hilmar's alt, or something. Myself, I'd say CCP didn't want to close hisec for those chars, allowing them to move through it. However, I doubt they ever wanted -10's to operate basically unhindered in hisec (which is fairly easy now with insta docks/undocks, ability to dock up in any station and reship there etc.). Also, if you want to tackle a freighter besides bumping - there is a mechanic for that, it's called warp disruption.

The only chips I have to deal with are those occasionally found on my table (hint: French fries). Back on topic, removing ability of -10's to easily gank (as they do nowadays) would make ganking more expensive - true, and that would be the point. You'd still want to go after big 'whales' but I doubt many folks would bother with ganking empty freighters, at least to the degree its being done today. Why - well because ganking would actually have CONSEQUENCES (and fairly light ones too, I mean if you can't afford to spend 200-300 mil every now and then to restore your sec status while ganking, then you're doing something terribly wrong). I don't understand why you find it so hard to accept the possibility of such a scenario, while all this time you advocate consequence based gameplay. I'd say such a change would be much more EVE-like then current mechanics are. Anyway, I'd say, let's wait and see, I'll bet that in the end I'll be the one laughing

Bumping is essential as the only realistic counter to the insane EHP of freighters.

Why?
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....That behavior does not make you evil, it makes you pathetic.

I don't see EHP of freighters being insanely high. If a ship can be alpha'd in HighSec with number of ships and modules that cost less than the said freighters hull I'd say it's quite effectively the opposite.

Says the dude hiding out in an NPC corp lol

Scrubalicous, really. Thank you for that.

So much anger. I suggest ...

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Fixed your spelling for you.

Sweet.
but no arguments.
Get your posts ready to be deleted.

As things stand it is broken that participents in a heist (bumpers) don't get suspect flagged - lets be fair, demanding immunity from consequences is exactly what carebears do so its a bit rich to suggest freighter jacking should be risk free.

I hope "Angry Rham" is just a persona and you really are having fun behind the keyboard because it certainly doesn't come across that way. Remember, Eve Online is just a video game.

Nope, but we can make a threadnaught while waiting

Crash into a parked car doing 90 mph then come back and suggest that.

And one post "No 5 is alive" suggests subscriber numbers *are* rising.

You'd still want to go after big 'whales' but I doubt many folks would bother with ganking empty freighters, at least to the degree its being done today. Why - well because ganking would actually have CONSEQUENCES (and fairly light ones too, I mean if you can't afford to spend 200-300 mil every now and then to restore your sec status while ganking, then you're doing something terribly wrong)

Being -10 in highsec already has consequences. It limits your gameplay options. On my -10 characters I can do a couple of things. I can move through highsec but I can never stop moving. So all I'm really limited to doing is just more ganking.

If I want to do things like suspect bait then I need to buy tags for 300m. So now my security status is high enough to have unhindered movement. If I gank again I have to decide if I'm going to limit the amount of things I aggress or do I go all out and get back to -5 within a few hours. A few pods later and that 300m tag purchase is gone.

Puddsy let me break down the cost of ganking freighters
So In a perfect scenario which is in a pulled .5 system

Triple anti-tanked freighter - 14 cats or 112m
Default ehp freighter - 18 cats or 142m
Bulkhead freighter 22-26 cats or 176-208m
All above cats are tech 2
And this is only doable when there's 0 opposition.
Now this is pretty cheap but you need that many cankers to make it that cheap

Now for worst case scenario on say a fat whale in a .8 system unpulled
We would be looking at
12-20 talos depending on fitting
Which is 1440m-2400m
The only time we would see a 50m cost puddsy is if the gank fleet has 30 people in t1 cats

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