[quote=Random Lurker]Reduce concord response time to be a lot quicker than it is. 10 seconds in 0.5 sec space and about 3-5 seconds in 1.0 Giving gankers less than 10 seconds to gank. This would require a lot more ships to gank, making it harder and more challenging and more fun to gank.

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The usual case that is made is that CONCORD response time should be slower (with a corresponding buff to EHP or whatever so fights last longer) so that there is more time for player actions to determine the outcome of a fight. If you made it so short, there would be no time for anyone to react which would just reinforce the feelings of helplessness.

First off they are 8 million ISK ships and second if you stopped over loading your mother fecking freighter this would not be an issue.

Red Frog Freight shows what can happen if you are prudent: You'll lose your freighter every 10,000 jumps. Assuming the average trip is 50 jumps there and back we are talking 1 freighter loss for every 200 trips. If you use your freighter 1x ever 2 days you'll lose a freighter 1 time every 400 days. And that is the average. It could be far, far less.

And FFS it is averse...risk averse, not risk adverse.

And FFS stop using risk aversion as if it were a bad thing. We are all risk averse and seek to minimize the possibility of loss.

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Seriously, if you put 8 billion in a freighter you are just begging to get ganked in this game. The expected drop is 4 billion. 4 billion pays for 500 good damn catalysts. 500. If you put 8 billion in your freighter you can pretty much expect to be ganked in short order. You might get away with it a few times, but one you are seen with that kind of cargo that's it. You are going to get ganked.

This is what I call being imprudent. IRL it would be like taking your 401k and putting it all in 1 stock....and then when that stock goes **** up you sit there and talk about how unfair it all is while it was your own greed and imprudence that lead you to the horrible situation you are in.

Stop being imprudent and you'll have very little to fear from gankers. Put no more than 800 million in your freighter, to be really safe limit it to 750 million. Put a tank on your freighter so that it takes more ships to gank you--i.e. make it more expensive. Use a scout, if you see lots of hostiles in system, dock up and wait. Use the standings function to set various ganking groups red so you can spot them in local more easily. If you really need to move through use a webber, but note that is putting you at increased risk.

Other alternatives:

1. If you are moving small volume/high value items look into a blockade runner. One of the fastest ships in game in terms of align/warp speed and it can fit a covert ops cloak so you can warp cloaked making you nearly impossible to catch in HS.
2. If you use a blockade runner use insta dock and insta warp book marks.
3. Use a jump freighter if you can afford one. Jump over gank spots vs. running through them.

Stop blaming everyone else if you behave imprudently. Learn from your mistakes and move on.

And yes, I have actually lost a JF, so spare me this crap I don't know what I'm talking about.

Or, just GTFO.

Edit II: And no, I am not telling people how to play I am giving my own view on how to play. You want to stuff your freighter with 8 billion ISK worth of goodies....well go for it. But do NOT come here and complain or I will point out what a God damn mother fecking idiot you were for doing such stupid fecking thing. But...by all means be as stupid as you want to be.

But realize the nature of this game is that if you are imprudent there are players who will show you exactly how imprudent you were.

Basically you're wrong, teckos is right, stop being an arrogant dumbass and actually think about what you're saying for a second.

First off they are 8 million ISK ships and second if you stopped over loading your mother ~snip~ freighter this would not be an issue.

Red Frog Freight shows what can happen if you are prudent: You'll lose your freighter every 10,000 jumps. Assuming the average trip is 50 jumps there and back we are talking 1 freighter loss for every 200 trips. If you use your freighter 1x ever 2 days you'll lose a freighter 1 time every 400 days. And that is the average. It could be far, far less.

Seriously, if you put 8 billion in a freighter you are just begging to get ganked in this game. The expected drop is 4 billion. 4 billion pays for 500 ~snip~ catalysts. 500. If you put 8 billion in your freighter you can pretty much expect to be ganked in short order. You might get away with it a few times, but one you are seen with that kind of cargo that's it. You are going to get ganked.

This is what I call being imprudent. IRL it would be like taking your 401k and putting it all in 1 stock....and then when that stock goes **** up you sit there and talk about how unfair it all is while it was your own greed and imprudence that lead you to the horrible situation you are in.

Stop being imprudent and you'll have very little to fear from gankers. Put no more than 800 million in your freighter, to be really safe limit it to 750 million. Put a tank on your freighter so that it takes more ships to gank you--i.e. make it more expensive. Use a scout, if you see lots of hostiles in system, dock up and wait. Use the standings function to set various ganking groups red so you can spot them in local more easily. If you really need to move through use a webber, but note that is putting you at increased risk.

Other alternatives:

1. If you are moving small volume/high value items look into a blockade runner. One of the fastest ships in game in terms of align/warp speed and it can fit a covert ops cloak so you can warp cloaked making you nearly impossible to catch in HS.
2. If you use a blockade runner use insta dock and insta warp book marks.
3. Use a jump freighter if you can afford one. Jump over gank spots vs. running through them.

Stop blaming everyone else if you behave imprudently. Learn from your mistakes and move on.

And yes, I have actually lost a JF, so spare me this crap I don't know what I'm talking about.

Or, just GTFO.

Edit II: And no, I am not telling people how to play

As for your JF ~snip~

Basically you're wrong, teckos is right, stop being an ~snip~ and actually think about what you're saying for a second.

Edit II: And no, I am not telling people how to play.

Errr Sandy you might want to try quoting things I actually said when you try and argue with me, unless you just messed up the formatting and were talking to Teckos, in which case thanks for proving my previous point perfectly.

Basically you're wrong, teckos is right, stop being an ~snip~ and actually think about what you're saying for a second.