Crime & Punishment

To clarify, there are PvPers, and then there are Gankers. They're not the same thing.

Imagine the game is like the Roman Colosseum. The arena floor is nullsec, the stadium is hisec.

The hisec "carebears" are the people sitting in the audience.

The PvPers are the gladiators fighting on the arena floor.

Gankers are just thugs sneaking through the audience, randomly stabbing people and trying to claim that somehow makes them equal to the gladiators.

It does not.

I have plenty of respect for actual PvPers. They risk their ships and their pods every time they get into combat. They know the risks and they are not afraid to take them, because they thrive on the thrill of danger that only real combat against vicious opponents bring.

Gankers? Sorry, but blowing up unarmed civilian ships doesn't take a lot of balls. In fact, quite the contrary - it indicates to me a complete lack of them.

You could say that they hisec people lack balls too, but the thing is, they don't lie about it. They know they don't want to get into a fight - especially in an unarmed civilian ship of all things - so they chose to stay away from it. Gankers, on the other hand, are basically doing the exact same thing but then afterward they go around trying to act like they're somehow superior to the "carebears." They're not. They're actually a step lower on the "balls scale" because they're not only cowards, but lying cowards as well.

Hulk kills don't impress me. Mackinaw kills don't impress me. Freighter kills don't impress me. You may as well be bragging about shooting down a SHUTTLE. Want to impress me? Take that ship into nullsec, come back with a battleship or two on you kill board and then you can honestly tell me that you're a tough guy. I'll believe it then, and give you props for it.