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So you're going for the "weak resolve" insult, now?

You try to make good points but it's not actually said anywhere. But that indication is given in tens of thousands of posts on this forum. Overall suicide gankers do give off an air of feeling superior towards their victims. Specially when the tears come as it's said. To me suicide ganking doesnt do justice to those indications on the forums and makes those who participate in it, by those actions alone, look like carebears in my oppinion. Despite of their experience and skills.

Most of the gankers inform their victims how to not be victims and try to convince them to adapt to their tactics. The victims usually don't like the advice....we usually hear a response that sounds almost as ludicrous as saying a beautiful woman should have every right to walk down a dark street at night alone wearing nothing but a bra and panties and not be a victim.

Ya, I know a few who do that. It "redeems" the act. The ganker had it's fun and the victim "hopefully" learned something from it.

I gank, therefore I have a very large penis. In fact, ganking makes me so awesome, that I have an entourage of Playboy Playmates who feed me pre-skinned grapes from between their ****. Also, this gaming forum is a very serious place for very serious people. These statements are in no way sarcastic, or exaggerations in any shape, way, or form.


Well I'm certainly glad that you're functional enough to make a logical claim. Now all you have to do is utilize logic to prove that it is true.

Stopped there, the "bigger picture" is bullshit self justification for picking on the weakest players in the game, if these players had any balls they would be in low, wh or null.

"Soon to be?"

Suicide gankers became the new carebears a very long time ago, around about the time when they began insisting their chosen profession, and later specific individuals themselves, were an indispensible cornerstone of EVE Online, without which the game would surely crash and burn. Suciide gankers now consider themselves saviours and crusaders fighting some sort of righteous war against people in hi-sec - and they can't even deny this because people have written multiple-post spiels about how they're sacred defenders of all that is pure and good about EVE Online.

"Without me, EVE Online will crumble and the game will be dead!" Who else do we know who regularly talks like that? Hi-sec miners. Hi-sec miners will often arrogantly state that they're responsible for keeping the low-end mineral market afloat, and that CCP should cater to them because if they were gone, the market would collapse and people would leave the game in frustration. Regardless of the veracity of this assertion, hi-sec miners are generally hated for their arrogance.

Suicide gankers have, in a twist of brilliant irony, set themselves up in a position very similar to that which miners occupy - that of an utterly indispensible part of EVE Online's culture and the guardians of its future. There are slight differences of course - miners claim they're the only thing ensuring market stability, while suicide gankers claim they're "providing content" or "driving emergent gameplay" (although more recently, suicide gankers will have you believe they're protecting EVE Online from some phantasmal threat). But it truly is all the same - buzzwords and flowery justifications for a sense of unwaranted self-importance. Both parties would like to believe they're somehow vital to the game's future, but the fact is, there's no-one in EVE Online who's indispensible. You are only as important to the future of this game as your ability to pay your subscription to it.

Suicide ganking is definitely the new ultracarebearing... with the exception that it does not really build anything in and of itself like other industrial bears do.

I would also seriously challenge the notion that it brings that much to eve. Yes, im glad that eve allows for such things and CCP considers it fair play, but a bunch of low-skilled noobs attacking industrials is not what i would call a hard selling point for those looking for a challenge. I have not been around nine years because of the amazing excitement of attacking something that cannot shoot back.

This is only compounded by the poor gankers misguided notion that they are doing something unique we should all thank them for. It not what makes eve and CCP would do well not to dwell on this as eves core.

He did. Before posting the thread, in fact. By now, the ones who need to harden up are the ones who say HTFU on the forums on a day-to-day basis, the Suicide Gankers.