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The Myth Of Risk Vs. Reward: High-Sec Ganking

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Temba Mapindazi
#1 - 2015-01-27 09:29:03 UTC
High-sec ganking by experienced players has “NO RISK & ALL REWARD”.

Be honest, gankers know how many ships are required to destroy their target before they are “Concorded”. Thus no risk whatsoever is involved. They are rewarded by a kill mail & a boost up in their kill to loss isk ratio which they calculated before their first shot.

NO RISK ALL REWARD, that's the real truth of EVE high-sec ganking.

Now I am not saying ganking should go away. I am saying let's just be honest about it and not continue to pretend there is a downside for the gankers. They are quite happy to trade their cheaper ships for the kill of a more expensive one. It is all good for the gankers.

CCP has built in a fundamental flaw in their predator / prey relationship by means of their upside down economy. Being a care bear miner explorer industrialist should be the easiest way to make the most isk in EVE! The high-sec systems should be teeming with large herds of these miners and mission runners making enough isk to easily replace the ships they lose to gankers.

This serves two functions, #1 it provides a large supply of targets to generate kill mails from, and #2 it reduces the emo rage quitting of a player who just finished grinding his way into a Hulk only to have it ganked before it could pay for itself. Win, Win right?

To accomplish this the cost of mining and mission running ships should drop dramatically or raise the payouts for mission running and mining. More affordable ships means more targets fewer tears. Win, Win!

A combat pilot must have two goals to survive,  #1 get the first shot in every fight , #2 get the last shot in every fight!
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#2 - 2015-01-27 09:33:58 UTC
I'm sure this will go well.
Lemme go grab my popcorn.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#3 - 2015-01-27 09:39:23 UTC
I'm no fan of ganking. Never have been, never will be. But your solution makes no sense at all.

ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#4 - 2015-01-27 09:41:56 UTC
This thread should be moved to Features & Ideas Discussion, but as this and similar ideas have been brought forward numerous times, it would just be locked there for redundancy.


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