There’s a couple of corporations who have been suicide ganking freighters since the end of last year. In one month one of these corporations, a bunch of no namers with a bad zkill have increased their zkill isk efficiency from utter garbage to 97% in just over a month of suicide ganking freighters. They typically gank 1 to 4 freighters per day.
This just highlights how ridiculously easy it is to do. Freighters have too little HP and that is what is making this such a cost efficient activity for them.
From a low of 6 to more commonly 8-9 Talos will kill a freighter in hi-sec before concord destroys them, depending on the fit and sec status. That means even if they target an empty freighter, the pilot they target will lose more than the gankers lost in the attack.
Once you factor in the cargo, the attacker is all but certain to make a good profit by continually doing this, essentially risk free. The only real risk is the risk of failiure but it’s really difficult to fail if you know what you’re doing.
I believe freighters need a significant HP boost. It shouldn’t be so easy just to drop a small number of talos on any freighter you want in concord protected space and be guaranteed to cost the pilot more than you lose, with the added bonus of likely receiving loot that will often not only cover your costs, but grant you significant profit.
Double the HP of freighters. It won’t stop freighter ganks, it’s not supposed to. It’s just to add some balance to the equation. These groups will need to be more selective in their targets because they will have to invest twice as much in the gank.
He is not fighting them.
Plus your argument is stupid, You are not “supposed to” lose your ship when you undock solo.
@OP test the new nirvana implants. They give +56.3% shield amount, while the SM-7 series also provide a multiplicative bonus.
You can also fit bulkhead on your freighters. Sure cargohold enhancers look good but they make your ship easier to gank.
An obelisk with good implants can reach 510k ehp.
A talos for 110M gets 1500 DPS. That means to kill the freighter, you need 15 talos on a 24s concord intervention, that is 1b3 isks (assuming they get back half the modules)
Tldr
This a ganking whine thread that ticks all the boxes…and i mean ALL the boxes.
Citing Killboard efficiency.
Ganking is easy
Buff tanks
Ganking is risk free
Just one more nerf
‘cost effective’ is a bad measurement for ganking.
Cost =/= tank.
Leopard anyone?
There are also some ships out there that specialise in being dps heavy. And yeah they aren’t that expensive but that’s not a bad thing. Quite the opposite, it’s awesome that poor players can use cheap ships to blap above their weight.
Freighters don’t get ganked because of a lack of EHP, they get ganked because of a lack of intelligent pilots.
Pilots who keep failing to fit them properly, who keep failing to limit their cargo value to reasonable numbers and pilots who keep failing to engage their brains when flying them.
If ganking looks easy, it’s because 1) some players have gotten really good at it, and 2) they often carefully select their targets to ensure that they can be ganked by the fleet on hand (which creates a selection bias to casual observers). Whether players make it look easy or not, it still requires a lot of skill to successfully execute any gank, let a lone one that requires the coordination of many players and alts.
The truth of the matter is not that ganking is too easy (in fact, many would argue that it’s been over-nerfed), it’s that you are making yourself a soft target. You can minimize your chances of being ganked through a proper fit, implants, intel tools, and not overloading your freighter with too much value. There are numerous resources out there to help you learn.
You can also try ganking yourself. If nothing else, it will teach you how to properly harden yourself against ganks (and probably demonstrate to you that freighters don’t need any more buffs, nor does ganking need any more nerfs).
No need, I found it funny to use your own presentation, does not invalidate your point.
The new nirvana set.
There is a little misunderstanding here.
Ships EHP typically depend on the amount of minerals used .
The hull is the direct sum of the pieryte and trit, IIRC. The shield and armor depend on the other minerals, the faction.
That means that increasing the EHP means, that the cost of the ships should also increase. But then, the weight, the align time should increase, and the travel speed should decrease, too.
All in all, even with double, triple , quintuple EHP, those freighters would have still died.
As people already told you, there are better ways to prevent the losses : use webber alts, don’t auto pilot, scout the route.
FYI I have 4 freighters (3 alts with a freighter, and one spare in case I lose one) and never lost a freighter yet, even in the “100% loot” event.
