EVE General Discussion

This is incorrect, of course. The problem is rather that you don't particularly care about bringing up game design and mechanics and prefer to go on long-winded rants based on hurt emotions rather than actual flaws in those designs. Hell, you can't even describe what the flaws are.

The effect of the pop lock is very much a game design choice, as is the workings of gates to locked systems. Moreover, regardless of whether it's an effect of design or gameplay (hell, even more so than if it's an effect of game play) why should people not be allowed to take advantage of it? If one player makes a bad decision, other players should be allowed to capitalise on that error.

As for who's at fault, the only way for it to not be the victim is if the victim is completely meaningless in proceedings. But there's the crux: if he's meaningless, he also can't die in anything that matters, and even then, he chose to fly such a worthless ship when he could have trivially chosen to fly something that doesn't die that easily.

All you're doing here is repeating stuff that has already been given a full response that you, in turn, can't respond to. So instead you turn to fallacies and abuse to cover for your inability to actually reply rather than just repeat.

So again, the ball is in your court. Point out what's wrong and what you disagree with or we're back to the same unavoidable conclusion…

You know if you don't present a reliably profitable target the odds of getting ganked drop dramatically right?

People will count on you dropping half the value of your cargo on death. Alphanado costs ~70 mil. Two alphanados will reliably deal 10k EHP in damage, with a single alphanado capable of 10k damage alone if the shot is perfect. Amend the formula for whatever may gank you but alphanados are pretty common given how much damage they can deal in an extremely short time frame.

So here's the formula of death:

((Isk value of your cargo / 2) - (70 million X 2 X every 10k EHP your ship tanks))

If that formula comes out less than 0 the gankers will likely lose money on the exchange and won't even look at you twice (until you undock from 4-4 again obviously). If the formula comes out greater than 0 you may be a gank target and the higher it goes above zero the higher your gank chance becomes. The chance may drop if you are carrying only one really valuable item which makes it a big risk to the ganker that it will die in the fire. Alternatively put your stuff in cargo containers so a ship scanner can't see it.

my killboard has lots of empty pods, shuttles and rookie-ships.

It's not that i like to kill.

It's just because mostly i have no time to do any checks. I see target and i need to kill it before faction NPC gets me. And when my 1% of kills gets hundreds of million ISK or good drop it makes ignoring of such targets just stupid.

So nope. It's not just about you.

If it were possible to avoid all ganks structurally, then there would be no point performing any probabilistic safety behaviors at all, and this would be not be a game.

In any case I am quite sure the tools available are sufficient to prevent a player ever needing to seriously risk any common method of gank, or in fact any method of gank that is currently practiced in highsec. IMO it is quite possible that even should a ganking group decide that they must gank me personally, they may fail every single actual attempt as its extremely personnel prohibitive to cover all the methods I have at my disposal to avoid them at once, and they may not know which set of tools i'll use on any one flight.

In any case it is necessary to be able to gank NPC corp players, otherwise all highsec logistics would be performed under false flag security thus offered (as it is, this is something I can and do make use of, since I am inconveniently a wartarget to half the wardeccing for profit population of the galaxy at any one time).

because you can't possibly buy stuff whilst parked 1 jump out of jita, and you can't possibly get redfrog to deliver it to you, or even get some random to do it with collat.

When I make a JF contract with the alliance service, I have an expectation that it will turn up somewhere in the next 1 hour to 14 days.

Not sure if been mentioned yet, but ,if you're selling, there are numerous traders who will happily buy your wares from neighbouring systems to a hub (I myself being one of those), so check the market and see what you can sell for around the same costs as inside the hubs without actually entering
Also, there are channels for you to bulk sell stuff without having to enter hubs as well

If you're buying wares, look at another hub, or (as already suggested) find someone who will move it for you during the quiet times when you're offline, realistically you only need it moving 1 jump - from the hub to a system next door for you to move rest of the way when you're online, so the cost isn't wallet breaking unless you're wanting to shift large m3 cargo that will require multiple trips
Hell, if you have friends/trusted corpies who are online during the quiet times, ask them to make a trip for you

the gate is doing what its suppose to do, its suppose to lock when it gets to busy and thats exactly what its doing.

why should people get preferencial treatment because they dont pvp or want to auto-pilot everywhere to make isk, gankers make isk from hitting vulnerable people and jita gate is good for the isk, everyone knows this so why not just go to a different system instead of whining about gettineg ganked on a gate you know closes