No, it does not matter in what direction it is bumped if the freighter has a friend in an interceptor. Fact is that bumping does not disable the warp drive
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Happened to me that I bumped orca in such a way that it got aligned with void spaceā¦ I presume owner had a bookmark somewhere there - and then he simply warped instantly.
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When is the last time that you seen a Bump ship trying to bump a freighter so that it can align to within your 5 deg error of margin so it can warp out?
Thatās an even worse try than Wrecker Head.
This is not done intentionally - just cause you attempt to force align to your desired destination instead of changing to first available target and warping off is of no concern to me.
Looks like your whole argument lies in ruins.
The CODE. wins again.
Bumping itself aligns the freighter, just not to where the freighter was originally hoping to align to. As long as there is a warpable point that the bumping aligns the freighter to, the freighter can warp off.
A great counter, for people who want to be prepared, is to setup a large number of bookmarks off gates they travel through in common ganking systems.
Never as good as webs, but in the unlucky event that you get bumped, the bumper canāt see your own bookmarks, so youāll be aligned to one at some point, and then escape by warping, no problem.
If AG went into the business of selling bookmark packs, they might actually do something useful for people.
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Wrong, the Bump Tackle that takes place will never ensure that the freighter that is being bumped will ever align to a bookmark that it can then instantly warp off too once the bump ship stops bumping and re-aligns itself for another bump.
Like stated earlier, 90% of the ships that CODE Bumpers bump are on the non-station side of the gate to keep them aligning to something on the station side of the gate.
You really do sound like children making asinine excuses for reasons why you shouldnāt have your hand busted for getting into the cookie jar.
There is no reasonable argument that you can provide that doesnāt refute the fact that a Bump Tackle does keep a freighter from entering warp. Try as you might, you are just backing yourself deeper into the whole of a 3 minute warp timer being added.
Mate, Iām a freighter pilot. Not a ganker.
You are wrong though. If you sufficiently prepare, with sufficient bookmarks around each key gate you travel through regularly, then youāll be able to warp off.
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There is no way to determine what degree the Bump Ship will bump the freighter into. Unless you have every single point in a million degrees bookmarked you wonāt be able to warp out while being bumped.
You donāt need them all. Thatās idiotic. You need a good coverage and youāll be fine. Iāll post a screenshot later of what I mean. It takes preparation, but then preparation gets rewarded and lazy ass freighter pilots deserve everything that comes at them.
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If CODE are such Elite PvP like they claim to beā¦then why wouldnāt they welcome the challenge of the 3 minute warp timer that would prove that they can put a ship beside a gank target and then warp to it within three minutes after being bumped?
It must be that 15 minute criminal timer they get.
All that time wasted on bumping a single ship at the gate instead of using the Bump pilots to gank another ship while the main gankers have their time out.
Not very Elite PvP once again.
You are CODE and a Ganker because who are you too determine the punishment for a ālazy ass freighter pilotā
This is another reason why ganking needs to be done away with in High Sec and all combat made to revolve around the war dec.
Ganking a freighter because its pilot is a lazy ass is a reason to war dec them, correct?
Why should a ganker not have to pay a war dec fee to exact their reason for attacking the freighter where war decs have been created for reasons far less than the pilot being lazy?
No, check my killboard.
Iām no ganker. Not what I like to do, but donāt have any issue with it.
However, as a freighter pilot, the more level the playing field is made, the less competitive the environment is. Additionally, the easier the game is to play, the less interesting it is.
So at the moment, my view is that the balance is about right. Good freighter pilots have a huge advantage and the lazy ones give that advantage away, so that the gankers hold the cards. Nothing wrong with that.
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I got a very hilarious mail
learn them game mechanics before posting any new āideasā Dryson
itāll save everyone precious time 
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Marked as off topicā¦tell Bill Durdacher to go stick a needle in it.
Explain why Bump Tackling is not the same end result of using a Warp Scrambler.
Iāve said it like 5 times above, scroll up (thereās even a search function to help you XD)
Explain it again since you continue to validate the thread as being sound the more that you post comments against it.
nah
scroll up
Iām not replying to you and your theories XD
Then why are you are replying?
You havenāt explained anything other than bait and spinning in your less than a Twitter amount of characters.
So howās that biting the hand of your AT fee provider CODE?
CODE is nothing but whining drama.
Iām against anything with no counter. +1 for an eventual warp regardless of alignment. If anyone so chooses to stop a freighter from playing, even an alpha, he can without rebuttal. While I know itās not happening to everyone all the time it doesnāt mean itās okay that a select few abuse this system.
If your purpose for bumping is to keep them there then you should have a time limit, if itās to simply trade your time for theirs, then you should have a limit to that trade, too.
Bumping to grief is a rare event, however if put into practice it would be completely feasible for people to simply have a high sec alt bumping any random freighter indefinitely while they did no-attention farming. Iām surprised no large entity has actually tried this tbh. Alts pay for themselves with injectors so it wouldnāt even cost a dime, just a minimal amount of attention to make someone unable to play.