EVE General Discussion

Interdictors aren't meant to be used for combat though. Their purpose in life is to drop bubbles in nullsec fights. They're not very good outside of that.

You know, normally I troll you, but I'll go ahead and play ball on this one.

I have been there. I have a little daughter, my only kid.

I dropped my laptop and raced over to her when she fell down the stairs. Yes, my ship was destroyed and I lost my pod.

But I didn't give one good goddamn about what happened in the freaking video game. Because it's not real life.

There are people actually reading these topics after the OP?

It's so cheap that it is rarely done for profit. There is a misplaced hate for people in highsec, somewhat like real life prejudice. Why do certain groups in real life beat an outsider despite the rewards (an iPhone) vs the risk (arrest, prison) being so poor.

Gankers are stupid sheep, asking for reasoning is pretty futile.

Edit: I'm not inferring an ethical equivalence but rather a similar causation.

I lost a tengu? :) News to me lol.

I know exactly what I'm talking about.

It's PvP. Some people would say that EVE Online is purely about PvP. I would disagree with that but there you go.

Well I went out on my first fleet run last night. It was about 6 of us. We just cruised around to different locations that the FC posted in chat. Took me a few minutes until I realized that there was no set destination or goal to end up at. Goal being an ending destination. So I continued to follow. We would warp to a gate, wait for the scout to tell us it's clear (or not), then jump in and continue. We hit 1 person... Then entire time. The rest were just gate rats. I was under the impression that Null-sec is swarming and there's stuff going on everywhere, so you have to watch out. Aside from the few groups of rats (NPC), I'm pretty sure I could've autopilot the whole time lol. So we jump through this one gate... There was a Battlecruiser. The set up was actually interesting and engaging to me. The scout stayed behind while we were posted on the other dude of the gate. He "pushed" the Battlecruiser (forced it) to come back through the gate, where we were all waiting. Someone tossed their bubbles and we waited for the Battlecruiser to decloak. As soon as it did, we all aimed and started the massacre. Well... Didn't happen. I guess the rest of my fleet got hit with something hard enough to scare them. Because by the time I looked up, they were all warping off. There was no instruction, no command. All there was, was "oh ****, warp off, warp off"! And that was said AS they were already warping. I got left behind (I thought a fleet is like a team, where you all die or all at least to try... Together. Not all of a sudden, "every man for himself"), and that's ok. I got stuck, hit really really good with some rockets and whatnot. Bottom line, I got podded. This is not a complaint lol. I didn't mind it at all. I know where I messed up and even so, I think it was entirely fun. He just outdid me, and I had a couple mistakes. But... My FC wasn't even calling primaries the entire roam. Someone asked, "so what's the primary"? The FC would reply, "everything". Yes, we know you want to kill everyone in sight. But we were all as a team as therefore should all be considered. I don't want to run a fleet nor do I want to even make a corp. But I do think it's important to organize, plan, then attack. Tactically. But the FC apologized. It's not like anyone was mad, just the principle of the duties of leadership. But all in all, it was fun. Yes, lots of traveling and jumping. But with a fleet, it's good fun. Well... On comms anyway. I lost about 3-5 million in stuff. But well worth it. I learned a lot.

EDIT: Didn't mention, but I will now... I've also been getting mixed signals on the debate over if ganking is profitable or not. From experience and corp talk, I know there's profit there. But... It's far between. Not few, just far between. And to say that gankers are the lowest scum of the earth... No. They are just an essential part of the EvE Universe and balance. And I'm not even ganking people yet, if at all. I do think that ganking AND playing the market (in between), is a smart choice. Not only does it give you things to do, and isk, but it also allows for more profit gain.

Never heard anyone ganking for a profit. usually I hear of ganking going on in HS. In HS I hear a lot of ganks get freighters, then either split the loot after selling everything. It's more of "a fun thing to do" than a career option.

My name is Royaldo, and thats why I gank.

Ganking is the equivalence of a high level player on a pvp server. Who goes to kill low level players who have no chance in hell of defending themselves. So they can feel accomplished about affecting somebodys out look on their current situation for fun. If a player isn't ganking for profit. They are instead ganking for the lulz, tears, enjoyment of creating a pain point. It is in fairly every game out there and is a bit character building. So to answer the question. Yes gank if you want to. But do realize that people will most likely not like you afterwards. You are one step above awoxers, and one step below afk cloak pilots in null.

To clarify, in no way is ganking similar to bullying. It is a video game. And you have options albeit more elaborate than a chat filter to stop it. I have been ganked and learned not to be ganked as easily. Be the loss mail, wear the loss mail, learn from the loss mail.