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Pros and Cons of Suicide ganking.

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D'Kelle
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#81 - 2012-03-03 15:32:42 UTC  |  Edited by: D'Kelle
The main problem is most suicide gankers are in cheap throw away ships and alts and go for soft targets so obviously have the desperate need to brag how brave they are to kill an unarmed mining ship or indy or what ever usually because they haven't the balls to use their main or a decent ship that they will loose, this kind are classified as "knuckledraging WOW intelect kiddie types" mainly, The fun thing to do is lure them to a tempting target, which turns out to be able to tank them then put "SUCKERS" in local its as funny as f*ck to watch them pop and you would be suprised then how many mouth off back to you cos their little boy mentality cant accept they were stung and tricked by a miner. :] There are various way to carry this out just be inventive. the better you are at it the more of them together are needed and/or more expensive ships they need to make their hit work that pushes up their costs as well.
Dont get angry get EVEn :]
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#82 - 2012-03-03 15:38:27 UTC
D'Kelle wrote:
The main problem is most suicide gankers are in cheap throw away ships and alts and go for soft targets so obviously have the desperate need to brag how brave they are to kill an unarmed mining ship or indy or what ever usually because they haven't the balls to use their main or a decent ship that they will loose, this kind are classified as "knuckledraging WOW intelect kiddie types" mainly, The fun thing to do is lure them to a tempting target, which turns out to be able to tank them then put "SUCKERS" in local its as funny as f*ck to watch them pop and you would be suprised then how many mouth off back to you cos their little boy mentality cant accept they were stung and tricked by a miner. :] There are various way to carry this out just be inventive. the better you are at it the more of them together are needed and/or more expensive ships they need to make their hit work that pushes up their costs as well.
Dont get angry get EVEn :]


Or it could just be profitable.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it

Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#83 - 2012-03-03 15:49:18 UTC
IGNATIUS HOOD wrote:
Atticus Fynch wrote:
Well, I read a lot about "carebear tears" yet there is nothing to incite "pirate tears" in EVE. Seems kind'a one-sided. You are either predator or prey in EVE and the predators have the upper hand.

I think that is were the balance is lacking.


The bears right the balance by fleeting up and defending each other. Also simply not AFK mining, watching local, gathering intel on gankers and paying attention to where they are would be a step in the right direction. You can't really stop someone determined to kill you regardless of cost but you can use the same resources he uses to find you to instead find him. Also would it really kill the bears to fit a few frigs and give these guys something to think about. Frigs are cheap and enough of them could really do something.

Also, whats stopping the bears from getting more organized into bigger corps, larger alliances, and war deccing the Pirate Corps behind all of this? Is it fear? Like I said before, Frigs are cheap.



It's easier to join null buy a 10$ bot on the internet and make gazillions isk in total safety while being afk watching tv, go out do real good stuff.
Then it's always nice to log on forums and play forum games that are obviously entertaining.
D'Kelle
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#84 - 2012-03-03 15:50:35 UTC  |  Edited by: D'Kelle
If you want CCP to improve the ballance, personally I think you are wasting your time and effort, its one of their stealth ways of making Empire gaming more of a chore, however the following might be a considered way they could do it, and that would be for Concorde to tractor/transport the offending POD Pilots off to an In system Prison which holds the POD for upto max 5 gaming days depending upon the cost of damage they caused so that they cannot clone jump or warp out to either a safe spot or out of system. pluss the other in system pilots can verbally take the Pi*s out of them in local then whilst in there, and I guess they may gain some Kudos for having been "inside". It wont stop them but it will cause them inconvenience and reduce the incentive, and perhaps force them to war dec corps as they should do;That is if they have what it takes to do that, which I doubt.
Dont get angry get EVEn :]
D'Kelle
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#85 - 2012-03-03 15:53:20 UTC  |  Edited by: D'Kelle
Tanya Powers wrote:
IGNATIUS HOOD wrote:
Atticus Fynch wrote:
Well, I read a lot about "carebear tears" yet there is nothing to incite "pirate tears" in EVE. Seems kind'a one-sided. You are either predator or prey in EVE and the predators have the upper hand.

I think that is were the balance is lacking.


The bears right the balance by fleeting up and defending each other. Also simply not AFK mining, watching local, gathering intel on gankers and paying attention to where they are would be a step in the right direction. You can't really stop someone determined to kill you regardless of cost but you can use the same resources he uses to find you to instead find him. Also would it really kill the bears to fit a few frigs and give these guys something to think about. Frigs are cheap and enough of them could really do something.

Also, whats stopping the bears from getting more organized into bigger corps, larger alliances, and war deccing the Pirate Corps behind all of this? Is it fear? Like I said before, Frigs are cheap.



It's easier to join null buy a 10$ bot on the internet and make gazillions isk in total safety while being afk watching tv, go out do real good stuff.
Then it's always nice to log on forums and play forum games that are obviously entertaining.


Because most are in NPC corps in cheap thowaway alts and ships dumb ass. and you cant dec an NPC obviously your`e EVE ignorant!
Dont get angry get EVEn :]
Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#86 - 2012-03-03 18:03:27 UTC
D'Kelle wrote:
Because most are in NPC corps in cheap thowaway alts and ships dumb ass. and you cant dec an NPC obviously your`e EVE ignorant!
Dont get angry get EVEn :]


I do all my ganking from Goonwaffe characters.

The artist formerly known as Ladie Scarlet.

gfldex
#87 - 2012-03-03 18:17:31 UTC
Even if the mechanics are changed _again_ (that would be round 10 IIRC) good players would still find ways to farm bad players.

If you take all the sand out of the box, only the cat poo will remain.

Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#88 - 2012-03-03 18:42:32 UTC
D'Kelle wrote:
Dont get angry


Somebody needs to take their own advice.

The artist formerly known as Ladie Scarlet.

ReiAnn
Nova-Tek
#89 - 2012-03-03 19:22:43 UTC
Yes, please, threaten me with suicide ganking crew. Grow up. This is the prime example of the people who need to go back to playing WOW. They don't have the intellect to do anything that might actually force them into a fight they might loose. No where in the world do legimate corporations openningly consort with criminals. If you want to be a criminal, then you have to deal with the conseqences of your actions. CCP really needs to institute a prison system like Escape from New York or better yet place them in a padded cell like any suicidal person is kept in by authorities for a long length of time. Keep players from clone jumping so they are forced to risk the fancy implants they don't want to risk while suiciding themselves. Force gankers to pay for damages done before being allowed to grind back their security status. If a PVE player is forced to deal wtih PVP players, then at least make the losses equal.

And by the way, there is no where on the main site that claims EVE is a pvp only game. so either the developers need to change their advertising or actually make EVE a game of all varieties.
Basileus Volkan
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#90 - 2012-03-03 19:52:09 UTC
ReiAnn wrote:
They don't have the intellect to do anything that might actually force them into a fight they might loose.


Kinda like all those bots miners during the Interdiction who didn't have the intellect to take proper precautions, huh?
Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#91 - 2012-03-03 20:00:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Ladie Harlot
ReiAnn wrote:
Yes, please, threaten me with suicide ganking crew. Grow up. This is the prime example of the people who need to go back to playing WOW. They don't have the intellect to do anything that might actually force them into a fight they might loose. No where in the world do legimate corporations openningly consort with criminals. If you want to be a criminal, then you have to deal with the conseqences of your actions. CCP really needs to institute a prison system like Escape from New York or better yet place them in a padded cell like any suicidal person is kept in by authorities for a long length of time. Keep players from clone jumping so they are forced to risk the fancy implants they don't want to risk while suiciding themselves. Force gankers to pay for damages done before being allowed to grind back their security status. If a PVE player is forced to deal wtih PVP players, then at least make the losses equal.

And by the way, there is no where on the main site that claims EVE is a pvp only game. so either the developers need to change their advertising or actually make EVE a game of all varieties.


1. "Go back to WoW"

2. Suicide gankers are too stupid to play the game the "right" way

3. Suicide gankers are pathological and belong in padded cells.

4. Eve isn't a PvP game.

5. There are no consequences for suicide ganking.

It's amazing that you managed to fit every fallacy or cliche about suicide ganking into a single paragraph. There should be some sort of medal.

The artist formerly known as Ladie Scarlet.

Psychotic Monk
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#92 - 2012-03-03 21:45:26 UTC
Eve's uniqueness lies in the fact that it lets us to terrible things to each other. Everything about this game sucks except that. This is the only game where we can actually effect other players.

Why do you want to crush such a beautiful and unique precious animal? There are a thousand MMOs where you will be protected. Hell, you guys already have way too much protection.

After all the game is literally called Everybody vs. Everybody.
D'Kelle
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#93 - 2012-03-03 21:51:04 UTC  |  Edited by: D'Kelle
Ladie Harlot wrote:
ReiAnn wrote:
Yes, please, threaten me with suicide ganking crew. Grow up. This is the prime example of the people who need to go back to playing WOW. They don't have the intellect to do anything that might actually force them into a fight they might loose. No where in the world do legimate corporations openningly consort with criminals. If you want to be a criminal, then you have to deal with the conseqences of your actions. CCP really needs to institute a prison system like Escape from New York or better yet place them in a padded cell like any suicidal person is kept in by authorities for a long length of time. Keep players from clone jumping so they are forced to risk the fancy implants they don't want to risk while suiciding themselves. Force gankers to pay for damages done before being allowed to grind back their security status. If a PVE player is forced to deal wtih PVP players, then at least make the losses equal.

And by the way, there is no where on the main site that claims EVE is a pvp only game. so either the developers need to change their advertising or actually make EVE a game of all varieties.


1. "Go back to WoW"

2. Suicide gankers are too stupid to play the game the "right" way

3. Suicide gankers are pathological and belong in padded cells.

4. Eve isn't a PvP game.

5. There are no consequences for suicide ganking.

It's amazing that you managed to fit every fallacy or cliche about suicide ganking into a single paragraph. There should be some sort of medal.


Ah there speaks a typical Goon wanabe just like another one of your ah, dim witted kind your compatriot John Zorg who pretends EVE needs ballance, and that from another Goon wannabe lol yeah and pigs might fly. LOL your'e a sorry group of poor dim bas*ards, so much so you cant even aggree amongst yourselves whats good or not for or in EVE.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=832884&

Your John Zorg, who attempted rather patetically to answer this my statement which is shown below.

Sorry bub no matter what you put forward or how eloquently you put it over, most EVE players just wouldn’t trust anyone involved or attached to Goons, you have made your selves a universal pariah to the majority of normal players, so the trust level relating to your group to actually do as to what you so blithely portray would register as -99.9 Goons have stood for too much griefing and other crap in the past to be trusted to being balanced. You have cut your cloth now wear the suit.
Players don’t want an EVE according to the book of Goon

or Goonwaffe whatever that is.

You are not even a true Goon. Just a wannabe Goon trailing along in their great shadow. like some beggar attempting to be what youre not. "Goonwaffe" sounds like some watered down erzats version of the "True Goons".
Adranamnamnmalalmnalmanl
Blue Mondays Hauling
#94 - 2012-03-03 21:55:33 UTC
OP has 'suicide ganked' his character and biomassed. Also, I love goons.
Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#95 - 2012-03-03 22:06:53 UTC
Atticus Fynch wrote:
After reading the thread on why people suicide gank, the obvious answer..."because they can"...doesnt really address the question.

Apparently there are advantages and disadvantages involved in doing so.

The question here is, currently with present day EVE mechanics, do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? And if so how can it be better balanced so as to discourage it.


Your thoughts/ideas?
Suicide ganks are so prevalent in highsec because highsec PvP is broken. It's so broken that it's the only viable offensive method left. Even the GMs will freely admit this. They'll tell you that yes Wardec mechanics are broken and the only viable way to get at someone is to suicide gank them.

Summary of EvEs last four expansions: http://imgur.com/ZL5SM33

D'Kelle
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#96 - 2012-03-03 22:09:00 UTC  |  Edited by: D'Kelle
Ninyania alCladdyth wrote:
Mag's wrote:
Atticus Fynch wrote:
Ninyania alCladdyth wrote:
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Im not too clear on this either.Ugh
We as -5 and below understand that having such a low sec status, opens us up to being shootable anywhere any time. This includes pods. One of the reasons we run through empire in pods, isn't due to them not being shootable, but simply because they insta warp.


Sorry for seeming so dense... I've been having a problem finding a clear-cut statement on whether or not Outlaw (-5 sec and lower) pods were "fair game" - every other thread I've searched out and read through made it sound like pod-kills always invoked a security status drop, and then de-evolved into carebear-vs-pirate flamewars before actually *answering the question*.



just keep a few cheap alts to suicide podkill the bas*ards then recycle your throwaway alt char. keep em in an npc corp with no link too you just like they do.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#97 - 2012-03-03 22:13:11 UTC
ReiAnn wrote:
And by the way, there is no where on the main site that claims EVE is a pvp only game. so either the developers need to change their advertising or actually make EVE a game of all varieties.

Have you tried actually visiting the main site before making these kinds of claims?

When I go there now, its main feature is a rolling slideshow showing four particular areas: “One universe”, “Discover the sandbox”, “EVE's creations” and “Be a capsuleer”.

One universe: a lot of talk about dominating the galaxy, taking part in warfare, engaging in politics, competing against other players.
Discover the sandbox: discusses how every action you take affects the rest of the universe.
EVE's creations: mainly videos featuring combat.
Be a capsuleer: mentions that there are other players…

…of these four highlights, only the last one does not feature combat and competition in a very clear way (and even the capsuleer page shows competition between players). In addition, all of their advertising is about the PvP. So yeah, no, you'd have to be pretty darn daft to look at the main page or read anything about EVE anywhere and not grasp the PvP nature of the game.

They advertise the game for what it is — there is no need to change it to make it “a game of all varieties” (largely because it would be impossible and because it would actually ruin everything that makes the game special).
Xorv
Questionable Acquisitions
#98 - 2012-03-03 22:15:01 UTC
Cyprus Black wrote:
Suicide ganks are so prevalent in highsec because highsec PvP is broken. It's so broken that it's the only viable offensive method left. Even the GMs will freely admit this. They'll tell you that yes Wardec mechanics are broken and the only viable way to get at someone is to suicide gank them.



This is the answer to the OP. Fix Wardecs and NPC corps and suicide ganking will rapidly diminish.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#99 - 2012-03-03 22:20:28 UTC
Also, new stats from CCP: less than 900 ships per day are used for suicide ganks in February.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#100 - 2012-03-03 22:32:37 UTC
Atticus Fynch wrote:


The question here is, currently with present day EVE mechanics, do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?


Yes. Absolutely


Quote:
And if so how can it be better balanced so as to discourage it.


It's an integral part of the EVE experience. I wouldn't go as far as to say discourage the practice but as it stands right now the consequences are just too non existent to make it anything but encouraged. It's like CCP are trying to prove how bad ass they are by making griefing online instead of EVE online.

Suicide ganking should be something you need to think about. Something you need to take the time to balance the pros and cons before heading off to destroy someones hard earned ship. Not something you do on a whim because you are bored.

So... never discourage it, but don't make it so easy either. A little balance in the mechanic and things would be improved. I find if they tweak it so that both the gankers and the gankees are bitching then it's just about where it should be. Only one side is complaining right now. To me, that says there's a problem.

Mr Epeen Cool