Jump Gates

[Leppy]

Someone please explain how this is a bad thing other than that it makes it oh so hard to get free piracy targets.

How are they any more 'free' piracy targets as they are to pirating at the lanes?

1. Warning
   Someone coming out of a gate can't see anything about what is on the other side until they have already arrived and you are sitting 3 inches from their front viewport. Tradelanes at least give you a scanner warning (with the pretty red/white/green text) if you are coming up on someone.
   
2. Escape 1
   Someone coming out of a jump gate has no ability to jump back through the gate they came due to the automatic built-in jump delay. Someone coming through a tradelane can immediately turn right back around and go back the way they are coming.
   
3. Escape 2
   This last one relates closely to the Warning portion. Someone coming out of a gate is a motionless target hanging in space after they complete the jump with the possibility of the hostile flying to within inches of them while they load the new system. What chances does even a battletransport have to escape from a pirate starting with an encounter distance and movement of 0? Compare that to the chances a battletransport would have to escape a pirate starting an encounter with a distance of 3.5k and already oriented to their surroundings?
   

Jumpgate hostiles have the inherent bonuses described above on the average target that the same hostile would not have at a tradelane. Therefore there must be a disadvantage to jumpgate hostiles that somewhat discourages them and/or makes it more difficult.
The current guns in no way make jumpgate piracy/camping/hostility impossible. They simply make it more difficult as they should.
And yes, I do fly pirate characters. A RH cruiser, a rogue barghest, and an indy bomber. Prior to the introduction of the jump gate guns, pirating a gate was a joke with how easy it was especially compared to doing it in the middle of a lane.