EVE General Discussion

I got ganked in a Myrmidon, which coincidentally was the entirety of all of my material wealth, insurance was good but i wasn't buying a new one to go pewpew DED complexes in, I'm back in a Catalyst for a while (or PI, WH PI).

Now who do i blame? myself for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the gankers who were looking for a quick payday or no-one because its just a ******* game about internet spaceships know for its outrageous PvP exploits and i just happened to be part of one?

There's nothing wrong with the games mechanics, the fact that you were auto-piloting makes any argument you have worthless, its like getting on a boat, turning the motor up to FAST and popping a couple of roofies, it's your own ******* fault when you drift into a storm and drown.

I'll just... right here...

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

Certainly there must be some competent and intelligent pilots living in WH space, steady and charismatic people who steer their craft with a firm hand and a clear eye.

Unfortunately in my experience something happens to WH dwellers that combines incredible riches with smug and whine.

When the gankers in hisec HTFU and realise that the ultimate tears are from WH bling-mach lossmails, then WH space will see more organised incursions of cloaked killers with patience and skill, perhaps even directly evolved from the simple parasites that are dedicated contemporary hisec ganktards.

Disclosure: i have killed non-combat ships just because. In null low and high. Not proud, just sayin.

add permently -10 standing againt the high sec faction for terrorist propaganda and act ;)

and the rat will be in the good place => null sec and revamp the yoyo effect standing

Or people could tank thier ship and there would be no need to revamp rat code. Being at the keyboard saved my vindi a few weeks ago. Seems like it`s harder to gank a ship when the resist mods are running. Who would of though of that...

Usually ...

Regardless of recycling characters with negative sec being bannable, there is no point as you don't need to. Personally quite proud of being full outlaw and still able to gank.

I assume people think ganking is easy because targets normally don't fight back. Of course none of the planning, concord manipulation, insta undocks, setting up of warp ins takes effort or skill.

also you can fight back... I was counter ganked today. If ganking is really a problem, workout how to avoid it or take revenge... You know create content.

What surprises me is the ammount of ppl that won't change their ways even if you spoon feed them simple tips and fittings. Like fitting a damage control to that mackinaw and having a flight of ECM drones handy. They'll completely ignore the advice since they have no clue what you're talking about or give you some whine about it hurting their yield/not having any money for it (I'm surprised how often ppl flying 30-250M ships claim they don't have money for a few modules)/not having any skills to fit it (don't let 2 hours of training so you can use the cheap named one instead of the T2 version stand in your way)/any other excuse that exempts them from having to act.

After a gank I usually post the killmail in local and post a guide containing tips on avoiding gankage and try to chat up the locals a bit (what else is there to do when waiting out the 15 min timer right?) and these are usually the responses you get.

Some simply ask to be left alone. "Hey, can you plz not gank me but other guy? Kthxbai!". After you tell them that using the tips I just linked in local will do them more good than asking gankers to be nice to them they revert to the gibberish responses above....

It's simply amazing really... What causes this? The whining after gankage shows it's not that they don't care. Is it lazyness? I'm as lazy as the best of 'm but even I can't resist being spoon fed (somewhat) complex game mechanics/tips/anything I can use to my advantage.

Eve Online...

Where the sandbox meets "lord of the flies"....and all the children abused by their stepfathers....

Enjoy!

I have another thread going, but one thing I noted was that the characters used to perform 'mission runner ganks' didn't seem to lose sec very quickly. They were able to remain in the region for a number of ganks. Does an act that lower sec status vary in sec cost if you're in 0.5 as opposed to doing that same gank in 0.7 space? Or was the ganker able to kill a few belt rats to quickly regain sec status enough to remain 'ganker-active' for several hours?