Player Features and Ideas Discussion

They are finding people that are afk or stupid. I myself lost a Rattlesnake to a hotdrop back in my FA days of yore when I went AFK for a bio with a neut in system. Careless people will lose their stuff regardless.

The problem is, if people are paying attention, they are 100% immune to ganks most of the time. Ratting carriers a bit less so, but battleships and below can completely negate any gank attempt purely through vigilance. It doesn't matter how skillful or prepared the ganking party, if the ratter hits "warp to station" as soon as a local enters system, they cannot be ganked with current mechanics. That's why afk cloaking is a thing, because it's the only way to catch otherwise watchful people, by making the presence of the neut so persistent that the only options are to give up on ratting in that system entirely, or rat with the neut in system and give up your local intel source.

This method would give gankers an option in certain circumstances. I recall a few weeks back when we had a system with literally 30 multiboxed characters mining in barges in a system. If a neut entered system, they initiated warp nearly instantly. Whether it was a bot or simply a vigilant person, there wasn't a single thing that could have been done about those miners. They were functionally mining in high sec, in that they had essentially zero risk of being ganked. I'm not sure even a log-in warp at belt in an interceptors would have been fast enough to catch them.

I rat in null a lot and of course i'm inmune to ganks becuase i'm always watching local and never afk, so what. Keep hunting and looking for unaware people or come to the forums to beg for easy kills. Oh yes, you already did the latter. Get lost.