EVE General Discussion

This is to all the players out there who think that just because they are mining or missioning, that they are entitled to some kind of immunity from the gankers who gank them.

Let me enlighten you with something. Ganking is part of the game. I don't care if you don't like that statement. Just because that statement is rude doesn't mean it's not true. We have all been conditioned from the beginning of this game's birth to believe that every player is fair game to all others. It's been posted by CCP many times over. We've seen the clues embedded in the trailers (The incursion trailer as well as the butterfly effect trailer). There were many events that occurred during the past 4 years alone that gave hints to the true nature of Eve Online. In fact, it took a New-Eden-wide event like Hulkageddon and now the recent Goonswarm attack on ice miners to make it blatantly clear to us.

Nowhere in New Eden is 100% safe.

Do not fly around in what you cannot afford to lose or protect.

We miners are hard working individuals that ensure that there is a constant stream of minerals needed for ship production. However, there are many miners like me who feel that destruction is so important to our bottom line that we even welcome gankers to try to attack us for whatever purpose they like. After all, this also helps the bottom line of those who spend time building mining ships in the first place who then have to spend ISK buying the minerals we mined for. The same could be said for missioners who look forward to the adrenaline rush they get from being attacked by a mission ganker.

Even the forum makes it adamantly clear that ganking is part of the game and that destruction is necessary for the Eve economy. For those of you who took the time to train up to a Covetor to mine or to a Raven to mission in, then obviously you had to have taken the time to read up on the forums and notice that Eve, even in highsec, is a dark and cruel world. If players are more than willing to go as far as commit corp theft, scam other players, and even manipulate the market, then surely they will no doubt try to gank miners and missioners.

So don't expect CCP to hold your hands and protect you (let alone reimburse what you lost from a gank) because they are the one who told us that each of us is fair game. If you want a game that allows you to grind and mine without interruption, you're in the wrong game.

HTFU or GTFO.

EDIT:

The post above has been edited to meet the EULA standards. A couple of posters here enlightened me that "griefing" is against the EULA, but "ganking" is not. I like to thank those posters for reminding me.

this too shall pass.

CCP decided to kiss a little ass and now every scrub in the game is lining up with their pants down.

*Henry looks at the name...

*Henry smiles.............

Don't disagree, but... Do we really need another thread on this?

Actually, yes we do if only to counter the constant stream of "Gankers should be banned" and "Remove PvP from highsec" threads.

The man that posted this thread gets EVE.

I also like that he encourages people to attempt to kill people if only to make a profit when those people need to buy gear.

Profits from war and death? I approve!

Also... Aggressive Nutmeg? Sounds like something I'd put in Scotch to make Eggnog (not knocking the name, rather dig it!)

Two words: Stockholm Syndrome

He is a miner. Reading comprehension there bro.

Actually, I think that syndrome makes sense.

If he was a griefer and he was meta-gaming by posing as a miner who likes the current system - how is that a troll?

I can pull out my certificates if you want.

Oh, I never asked griefers to take it easy on me. Just ask those who ganked me (ask Guillaume LeConquerant for a reference).