How to definitively solve the gankers problem

[Ian Doncaster]

Simply that if I could pay for an escort you would not come to attack me. But since the game does not allow me to have an escort you can attack me without me doing anything. This more than doing the pirate seems to me to have fun doing pigeon shooting

You can fit weapons and shields to your own ship and make it self-escorting.

Also, if you're in a context where a player pirate is attacking you, then you can pay for a player escort - Void Opals actually makes it practical to transfer enough money to be worth the escort's while, potentially.

 

[Berpol]

Simply that if I could pay for an escort you would not come to attack me. But since the game does not allow me to have an escort you can attack me without me doing anything.

If you had the ability to hire an excort he would also have the ability to hire some raiders. The main difference would be that you had the ability to calculate your winnings and thus could tell how much to invest in your escorts.
Of course it would still be an improement for the game play.

 

[Tom Jacobs]

Just tried open again after about a year and a half in solo, never ever again.
spawned, set of, got cargo, jumped ONCE, got interdicted by some cmdr and before i even could puch the button to look at the nav panel and high wake, the ship was dead.
lesson learned once more, sorry guys i tried never in my life will go into open, not for me. 12mil is a lot of money to lose for me.