Freighter Discussion

[Zukeenee]

I love it when the Freighter topics come up. I'm a long-time freighter-lover myself, and would love to see these awesome little ships be given some sort of greater purpose in the game. I wouldn't say that freighters in general need a "buff", though. There's only so much that we can improve stats-wise without making freighters too powerful. Although I did make a topic a while back about a few freighters that I'd like to see bumped up from Mk 1 status.

But I don't think that freighters need more powerful guns or more powerful shields. What they need is something that will convince players to use them for their originally intended purpose. They need some gimmick that might make people seriously consider buying a freighter over a transport. And Boss's algorithms, which no one here seems to have notice, would probably do that very well. Per unit, cargo would be more profitable off-loaded by a freighter than it would be if it were sold all at once by a 5K transport. He explained it to me over Skype once a while back, and it really interested me. If we could implement something like this, we might see more freighters buzzing about.

And yes, the 4.86 speed boost will be lovely as well.

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