EVE General Discussion

Fun fact, Freighters were basically ungankable for... something like a year after they came out? Something like that?

They didn't drop loot, at all, and CCP had to figure out a way to make them do it. I remember hearing they actually crashed the test server with their attempt at can-spew from Freighters before they got around to the idea of bigger wrecks that had to be looted by other Freighters.

There's some other reasons ganking wasn't as common then either, one was economics, another was the playerbase was much smaller (less chance of finding something worth ganking over x time), ect. Functionally speaking, at the time, ganking was actually easier. Ships got insurance when CONCORDED, Warp to 15 was still a thing for a lot of that, ect.

Yes, there was (probably, we don't have stats just forum whining) less ganking then, but personally I'd put it down to more of a cultural thing than ganking back then actually being harder to pull off.