EVE General Discussion

How do u defend against Gankers ? am a new player and i honestly got no clue....

Yesterday i saw a known ganker come into a system and there was nothing i could do about it, coz if i ever attacked him i would get blown up by concord... I was actually thinking in the lines of creating an anti ganking unit or.... Miner protection squads...but. I don't have a clue how to do it if concord gets in the way ....

BTW..am brand new.....

Any ganker which shoots me in highsec is gonna get blown up by concord or me .. Gankers are suicide squads..the Trick is to preemptively attack them.... there is no point shooting a suicide bomber after he has blown himself up....

Hence.... the game mechanics favours the gankers too much and makes miners in high sec totally helpless.... CCP should fix this....

Oh ok then guess you've got this all figured out fly safe o7o7o7




I like how you're new and yet you've already figured out how Eve works.

Hint: you have no clue how Eve works

There isn't much you can do, unfortunately. there is the 15m GCC, but usually the ganker just docks up and lets the timer run out.

Though there is a very very small window of opportunity to shoot the ganker before concord pops the ganker when the ganker has initiated his gank. Chances are you might pop him, but he may still manage to gank his target.

Only real defense being offense is wardecs which if its a npc corp alt ganking character makes that idea go out the window.

I like how you're new and yet you've already figured out how Eve works.

Hint: you have no clue how Eve works[/quote]

So your saying i can shoot at a Ganker before he attacks an Exhumer without me getting killed ?
If so how ?

Next time give a reply with some proper information rather than cheap shots.. am looking for a proper discussion and not a mud slinging contest

Or you could let him blow you up one time in a cheap ship, then hunt him down for killrights :P

I tell you that the moment the gankboat opens fire on you, you (or anyone else) can fire back. If you can't figure out how to use that information to your advantage, or if you're unwilling to do 5 minutes of reading just about anywhere to figure out how ganks even work, then you deserve to lose your Exhumer.

BTW, how'd you get an Exhumer if you're "brand new"? That's about a month's worth of focused training to even sit in a hull, let alone do anything with it.

Information is power. If you know them, you can easily avoid them. Join the Hisec anti-gankers public channel. I don't want to keep spaming forums with this. If you're interested feel free to contact me.

There is no feesable way to protect from gankers, there are items such as ship scanners which tells gankers what your ships fitting is.

If your flying a small ship they will gank you in something small, if your in a freighter and they want to kill you, they come in numbers with larger ships.

You CANNOT defend yourself from gankers what so ever!


The reality is, gank ships are cheap and usuialy flown by alts ot people with massive amounts of isk in thier wallet, they try once and fail, they will come back again on principle and get the job done.

A typical gank requires every single one of the 15s CONCORD response time to kill the Hulk. Tank your Hulk and a Nado/Mael fit for blapping dessies will kill enough destroyers to keep your hulk alive for the duration of the gank.

Here are some other options you might try during this trying time.

1. Continue Mining like normal and Accept the losses
2. Continue Mining as normal but in a Covetor and Accept the losses
3. Mine in a Rokh, comfortably immune* to Suicide Ganks
4. Tank your Hulk and Accept a lower number of Losses from edge case profit based ganks.
5. Tank your Hulk with RR and be comfortable immune to Suicide Ganks
6. Mine in a Normally Fit Hulk but use a short range D-Scan to escape ganks
7. Set up safespots such that you can maintain a rough orbit in range of a roid by aligning to each BM in turn
8. Set up Hulks to Web each other, mine aligned to 1 SS at 7m/s (warpable speed) (can be done @ max yield)
9. Watch local for known gankers, accept the occasional gank from unknown ganks
10. Mine in Mission pockets
11. Mine in Grav Sites, occasionally scanning D-Scan
12. Tank your Hulk and have friends in BLAP AC Nados ready to shoot (one should kill a Cat before you die, failing the gank)
13. Tank your Hulk and have friends with ECM
14. Tank your Hulk and run 5x Med ECM drones and accept that you'll die if they fail
15. Mine in Lowsec (can be done solo in a quiet system)
16. Mine in Null (can be done solo in a quiet NPC sov system)
17. Mine in WH space

*all cases of immunity from Suicide Ganks assume profit-based ganks. Non-Profit based ganks are rare and are not something that can be negated by game mechanics changes besides eliminating ganks, thus can be ignored.

All of these options have advantages and disadvantages. All of them will work. Not all of them are perfect.

If ALL of these options do not work for you, please describe your very special situation, and I'll come up with a custom solution or call you names. You know, depending...