What I would be interested in is knowing both the number of those ganked and the number of freighters flying around unganked.
“Three to eleven freighters ganked in HS a day” sounds impressive when only 20 freighters fly around. But it’s nothing if thousands of freighter flights happen of which the vast majority is succesful.
Interesting idea. The webber would be a lot less vulnerable and obvious with a covert cloak.
Just be aware you have a 5 second targeting delay after decloaking. You could try one of the bombers (also Caldari or Gallente for max amount of mid slots) to do it without targeting delay.
You’re going to lack the web range of a Hyena though.
Yeah and thats actually all that matters. There is no danger or “vulnerability” for your webber or any reason for trying to “hide” it. Gankers have their scouts several systems before their gankspot and they will see what you are doing whether you keep your webber cloaked to the last moment or not. And if they want to catch your freighter they will place an insta-locker-frig in its path that will point it before your webber can lock it and then it’s fair game.
There is really absolutely zero reason to use anything else than a tripleweb Hyena/Rapier/Loki.
it has been addressed. several times. there have been numerous nerfs made to ganking activities over the years, such as no red safety on Alpha accounts.
and ganking has not, and likely never will be, removed completely.
it’s a core, foundational design principle of the game that there are no safe spaces. that you can be engaged in any area of space and further, that you explicitly consented to pvp when you clicked “undock”.
the idea that CONCORD is righteous retribution and not mollycoddling prevention has been baked into the games design since the start.
The day that ganking is removed from high sec is the day the game dies. With no threats from other players, there would be literally thousands of players using bots to mine and haul AFK 24/7.