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Marlona Sky
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.19 11:27:00 -
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I'm sure to get flamed here but here goes...
Having a jump freighter be escorted by a gang thru non-empire space is just not realistic. Not when you can use a cargonaught/rorqual with a cloak. Now, what if you made the jump freighter not so defensless. As in being able to fit a tank and guns on it like other ships. 
If it cost so much, and you dont want to increase its jump range, well then give the pilot more bang (literally) for his buck. What fool goes into the wild west and doesn't pack a gun with them?
Now I'm not talking about it being like some crazy PvP ship, but the ability to tank to a degree and shoot back. Not capital guns but enough grid to fit a bunch of anti-bs and smaller guns. Do some things to it where it gets severly penalized for fitting EW so its not used as a bait ship, but why not give it the slots and rig layout to make the attackers have to earn that kill. I am not talking like 2-3 turret/launchers either... it is a big ship, no less than the max 8 high slots for turrets/launchers.
I mean who is really gonna complain like, "ZOMG, the jump freighters are to over powered!!"
I don't fly any freighters but if I was a freighter pilot in the EVE universe, you can bet your last ISK I would have put some guns on it to make its survivabilty in the harsh universe a bit better.
And a drone bay too! 
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Marlona Sky
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.21 05:19:00 -
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With the ship costing sooooo much. Even after the buff to the run amount that is mentioned (whatever that means for costs) it is still way too risky to be high sec ganked. The ability to be the only ship in EVE with a jump drive that can go into high sec is pointless if a gang of gank t1 fit battleships can melt it easily in empire. Even if this ship had 250 man escort in empire, it still can easily be sucide ganked. Why dont you give the hull some resistances?? All those hull hit point bonuses are not gonna make the difference with all the hull resistances being 0%. Please before you do the update and ignore everyone with suggestions, at least give it hull resistances of say 60% so it is less likely to be sucide ganked. This of course doesn't mean it will be safe to go into low sec or 0.0 without an escort like CCP wants. Who can argue with that?? If CCP keeps it at 0% all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot. You want people to use these ships but everyone is too scared to get sucide ganked. Give it hull resistances CCP, show the EVE community that you care and listen to the player base. 
I challenge anyone out there (even CCP) to point out how giving the jump freighters a 60% hull resistances would be a bad idea!!!
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Marlona Sky
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.24 13:25:00 -
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So is it true? CCP is nerfing the Rorqual jump range by -50%
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