Actually that reminds me, I've had a question I've been wanting to ask the nullsec groups....

I understand you can only jump a freighter into lowsec at the outskirts of highsec, then you have to "slowboat"/gate it to highsec. Once you undock from your station (say, Jita), you can jump back out again. But, why not have some of your alts ship goods to the edge of highsec so your freighter only has to go through one gate? Like, get a bunch of DST's to ship stuff to the highsec system bordering low, then freighter it from there? Seems like a safer venture than going all the way to Jita with the freighter.

Which, again, is true only because there is a contingent of Lemming-like players who will cheerfully feed themselves to gankers.

If they made even a token effort to defend themselves, this wouldn't be the case. Why don't you take this up with the imbeciles who make ganking so proftable instead of trying to subsidize them?

Anything that can be used to avoid bumping can be fairly easily countered - webber is countered by a cruiser suicide tackling the freighter while first bump lands. From there, it's usually gg for the freighter.

Don't you have anything better than "It's working as intended...no wait...it's not working as intended...well it kinda works...well let's keep it anyway instead of exploring other options?...CAREBEAR...HE'S A CAREBEAR"

I'm not egotistical enough to think my opinion on a forum *will* change the game but having a discussion about mechanics is vastly more interesting for me than namecalling, misrepresenting points and basically acting in denial that there might be some other workable solution to the current flawed method.

No, what I'm saying is that once the first bump lands, you're pretty much f****d and you can do very little if nothing to change that, particularly if you want to get out of it in a way which will not result with criminal flags / killrights for non-ganker side. Being able to essentially perma-bump a freighter while using just two chars without any consequences whatsoever for the bumping character is not 'putting more effort', it is simply wrong. The fact that (quite often) you can extract loot safely is also wrong.
The fact that some guys are so bitter about any discussion related to changing such mechanics is moderately amusing.

Possible bad idea incoming:

Stabilizing Jets. Your ship cannot be moved unless bumped by a combined mass greater than a percentage of your ships mass (increasing percentage for meta or tech II variants?), but in exchange it increases your align time by 20% (Or Decreases cargo capacity by 10% two possible modules? )

This way if you're caught by the entire gank fleet, you're still not going anywhere but if one guy catches you, he's about to be brick walled?

Yeah, and you can't fly a Titan in your first week either.

Some things just aren't for new players. Simple as that.

No, it should not.

Nevermind that it is neither inflicting any damage to the other player nor inflicting a negative status effect on it,

You know what would be awesomeGǪis if the anti-ganking GǣcommunityGǥ actually got serious and stopped screwing around, especially in the cases of the long period bumping instances. Do they have a corporation or alliance? No. Do they pre-position assets? No. Do they have a comms system so they can communicate more quickly? Do they use some sort of IRC style method of keeping people informed? No. Have they thought about doing something really effective, like getting into CODE with an alt spy and try to learn who is moving ships and stuff for ganking? Maybe go gank that guy.

Instead they come here and complain hoping GÇ£mom and dadGÇ¥ will do something to help people instead of people helping themselves.

And the ironic thing isGǪto gank a bumping ship it would take far, far fewer peopleGÇöi.e. the herding cats problem is a lot less of a problem.

Maybe CCP can create a new in game itemGǪ.cheese, and we can start contracting cheese to these anti-gankers to go with their whine.

Oh it's absolutely doable too. I've seen tugs push much bigger ships out of ice floes, when I used to live in Alaska.

And we all know, or at least those of us who aren't ignorant anti gankers, that this game uses a fluidic physics model. I laugh every time I see someone say that it's not "realistic", because they don't have a clue.

What evidence?

None has been posted showing that an issue exists at all.