Clay Robertson
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Posted - 2016.02.12 14:18:40 -
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Jin Kugu wrote:This is such a bad and unimaginative change.
Freighters are in a fine place. Don't believe me? Go look at Jita, Uedama or Niarja. People use freighters a lot even though there are plenty alternatives that are almost unkillable. DSTs, blockade runners, JFs are all almost immune in high sec if properly flown.
I guess ccp dumped the whole analysis thing when it comes to ganking nerfs? How many freighters die to a gank per 1000 freighter jumps? How many freighter die to wardecks compared to ganking?
You call this a good place? people fly freighters because either they are safer ( cant be popped by a couple nados) or because of m3 size. Sometimes, as with hauling ores, you really just need to use a freighter to make meaningfully large trips. I understand that DSTs are often times safer and in the case of many big freighter ganks the expensive cargo could've been hauled by something smaller, but you can't limit a freighter to just fuel and ore. yes they are quite safe when webbed but things still go wrong quite often, it is still very easy to gank a freighter if the ganking party really wants it. They can kill the webs, or just bump the freighter anyways. Once a freighter is bumped there is no way it's getting out unless the attacking party lets them go. Then, to kill a 1 billion isk ship that is often times carrying 2-10 billion isk worth of stuff, you only need like 100mil worth of ships or less. That aside, ccp generally tries to not make it so that the only way you can run a ship is with a highly trained alt, and no one uses another person to web them except in lowsec sometimes because it just isn't worth the effort (in contract reward that is.).
Is it not reasonable to make freighters much harder to gank? By allowing them to fit a DC a freighter would only be ganked if it is carrying a really huge amount of isk worth, which does still happen quite often, but then it is the player's fault. There is no reason for it to sound like a good idea to gank empty freighters. |