Crime & Punishment

So far two posts that missed the point. I want an opportunity to hunt suicide gankers and their benefactors. I am bored with mining anyway and am glad that some risk has been added to hisec mining. I just believe that characters used to suicide gank are not equal targets. They are the henchmen of an alternate character that have no risk to themselves. Lets have risk for all involved, with no character spared.

summon concord in advance to your asteroid belt or mission area or whatever by your alts shooting up each other in noob ships/rifters.

concord will hover in your belt for what, an hour? giving you free security.

technically illigal? yes. Do i care if you do it, if it frustrates gankers? no. In fact, tears from gankers for a change, crying how carebears exploiting concord to protect themselves, boo hoo, wouyd be sweet to hear.

Hilariously, pulling CONCORD to your own belt in such a fashion is considered an exploit and is a bannable offence.

CCP's reasoning is that CONCORD exist to offer retribution for unprovoked aggression, not as a personal protection fleet.

What the **** are you on? It's not an exploit. It's perfectly legal. Stop spreading bullshit, sucker!

You're saying the RL equivalent of "I parked my new car in the ghetto and took a nap since it seemed like a great place with the low lighting and all. Of course I left the doors unlocked, keys in the ignition and put my wallet with money sticking out on the dash. The next thing I knew is someone robbed me at gunpoint, taking my money and car! I really think there needs to be a better way to stop these nasty criminals that took advantage of poor helpless me me at no risk to themselves. Please make it where I can get back at the mean people that hurt me"

I have recently come back to the game to find that hisec space is being regulated by suicide gankers. I know suicide ganking is part of the game, but I do have an issue with the way this is implemented.

The issue I have is that career suicide gankers (those with terrible standings) have so little to lose when ganking a ship in hisec. They obviously do not care about standings and only fly ships they do not miss. However, they are able to dispatch ships 10 times their value before getting a slap on the hand from concord. Finding them and retaliating outs them a couple mil, but you are only going to catch them when they are en route to a gank as these characters are used for nothing else. Wardecs are impossible due to these people existing in NPC corps or single man corps. Kill Rights are useless because of the value of ships these alts usually employ.

I do admit that I have spent a fair share of my time a couple years ago being a hisec carebear, but please do not mistake this for carebear tears. I just want a similar opportunity to return the favor as I am developing an interest in pvp, and who better to kill than those who have killed you .

I do not know what the fix would be, as I do think that being an outlaw should be a viable play style. Maybe a witness list in killmail, people on grid that were in sensor range during the crime, so that I could place bounties on their "scouts". Or if there was someway to link the scout with the crime (this probably cannot be done without creating big issues). Kill Rights that continued until you have "killed back" the cost of your ship at market.

If you have read, thanks for your time, and fly safe. Or not, I don't really care. Have fun.

TL;DR

I think that there needs to be a game mechanism shift, not so much in suicide ganking, but the ability to retaliate against them.