Crime & Punishment

Nope. They probably just don't know or even care what's going on in the game outside of their little bubble. Most players are like this, not just space truckers.

I'd say this. The amount that fly through Uedama and Niarja either auto piloting or without tank shows as much. This weekend I went through that way I was moving several billion and I did it in four trips in an Impel. It's unlikely you'll stop a freighter gank while itsl's happening, best thing you can do is try to snatch the loot!

On the ECM burst note I'm looking forward to (bubbles permitting) warping my Suicide Scorpion ECM/Smarbomb into the Fight Club shenanigans in Catch this Saturday.

It's unlikely they're bots as in actually bot software. The code.'s description of "bot aspirant" is pretty fitting.

If you look at all the complaining and ill thought out "solutions to ganking" posted on eve-o you will see they aren't bots, they just don't want to play the game, whilst still being rewarded for playing the game.
They want their isk and a plex so they can play for another month, but they don't want to actually do anything past accepting a contract, sticking cargo in and watching netflix for an hour while their ship autopilots.

This is the core problem with the anti ganking movement. There will always be another hauler that sticks 2bn of stuff in an untanked ship and autopilots through known gank systems, or another miner who puts 500 mil of modules on an untanked soloable ship then mines afk in a 0.5. It doesn't matter how hard you try to protect them, you'll never stop ganking simply because the victims often don't want to protect themselves.

That said, ganking and anti ganking is good practice and good fun.

Almost

But you know, CODE. won the moment he planned to disrupt the gank

Miner, calm down
I thought you knew better than to talk **** to people who literally don't care

The Captain is right, and not just because he outranks me.

ECM Burst should have far less dire consequences for security status, if at all. The killrights alone are consequence enough. Especially against ships that can't target other ships, aka capsules.

No more human shields Jason Kusion. 'Floaters' are people too!

Plus It's high time gankers got a nerf. ECM Burst Gankers that is!

Ooh wow. That video brought back tons of beautiful Highsec AG memories. I like it how you placed all your overheated jammers on the Function keys to quickly activate them. It requires some practice but it works because it's quick. I have saved so many miners with that setup. While ECCM provides some nice boost to Cata's sensors, even a Double-ECCM Catalyst can get jammed by a well-skilled Falcon pilot who activates, in ample time, 5-6 overheated magnetometric jammers on it.

Of course, there were times when my jamming attempt would fail either because I screwed up (every second counts in such situation) or the ganker had an unexpectedly strong ECCM-oriented fit or, in one case, the ganker brings with him a Suicide-Griffin to jam me so that I cannot jam his ganker alt (Quality Highsec Content there, folks - I saw this happen a few times during the 2013 CFC Caldari Ice Interdiction)

Regardless of the outcome, (your success or failure) GFs in local with the ganker follow but that goes without saying for many. Oh, also I used to learn a lot by watching my recording of the encounter (everything happens within 20 seconds) to see possible mistakes of mine, the general review of the situation and also to think about changing and adapting my tactics to ruin his next gank. So my recommendation for you would be to record as many encounters as possible.

I fully agree with you about the fact that it's better when there are multiple ECM ships around. I remember that time when the situation had become hilarious and ironic on a superior level as we had teamed up with Goon Anti-Gankers to disrupt the Confederation of xXPIZZAXx's freighter ganking fleets in Niarja a few years ago. It was great fun..

Highsec can indeed be great fun after all. Miners, Gankers and Anti-Gankers all contribute to it.



I saw on the HSM blog the other day that you guys killed over 400 ganker scouts within a month. That's crazy, allow me to use this post to say Well Done! I wish I could have the occasion to join those ops (blame rl shenanigans). Ganking their scouts en masse is great. You know, if more people had your attitude (that is, shooting your enemies instead of crying on forums) Highsec would be a much better and fun place for everyone involved.