EVE General Discussion

Yeah, ganking just for being AFK is totally a thing.

This is like bragging about all the pennies you found over the last ten years. Big deal. The fact of the matter is that the game could multiply the playerbase with some simple grooming. But of course then the forums would fill up with crybabies talking about how the game is being dumbed down. As if the playerbase isn't already the domain of dimwits.

The solution here would be: don't be in defenseless ships. I for one, cannot figure out for the life of me why years old miners in years old specialized mining corps don't fit their exhumers properly (you know, with at least a basic tank) and don't have vast flocks of ECM drones out and/or have ECM boats/instalocking high DPS combat ships around.

The almost complete lack of ECM drones is what surprises me most, I think I'm not exagerating when I say that 99% of miners don't carry them while they may be one of the most effective ways to fumble a gank. Yes yes, when 10 catalysts jump your single exhumer those aren't going to save you but the thruth is that most barges/exhumers die to solo/dual gankers.

On top of that: a large portion of the gankers are at least as terrible as a large poriton of the miners, I see plenty of really poorly executed ganks (often failing) with crap fitted ships. Wrong damage types, using t1 instead of named mods, not bringing enough DPS. That means they either did not scan their target properly or that they did not run the numbers on how much DPS is needed properly or at all.

The bottom line being: it's really, really, really not that hard to stay alive in most cases. Just simply not being the easiest target goes an incredibly long way.

You can ***** about ppl attacking defenseless ships or you can do something about it, such is EVE and it has always been this way. It's a PVP game and if you're gonna completely ignore that simple fact, you're going to die more often. And not even that often, unless you repeatedly ignore gankers and keep flying your same **** fits AFK while local is full of flashy red's for hours....

Grrrrrrrr [insert entity here].

SWG was basically a dog turd that someone had topped with whipped cream and a cherry and called a chocolate sundae. The changes just got you to the bottom much faster.

This reminds me of something.

Thank you Goons, TEST and you other big entities, for helping defend our game
from the people who ignore reality and only care for themselves.

You are many and your voices count a lot.

Without you, it'd be much harder not to have EvE turned into a boring carebear land
which would die as soon as all these idiots left to kill the next game.


Thank you !

I've autopiloted 10-20 times into low sec on accident, at least half of the time in a blockade runner, in Caldari space, at prime time EUTZ, got killed once. Half of the times I simply made it to my end destination and found myself floating afk at the gate. With other players whizzing by, not caring or suspecting a trap I reckon. Unless you run across a deliberate gate camp (most likely on a high sec gate) chances are that you will be allright even in low sec. let alone high sec.

In all my years I did a lot of AP'ing in shuttles, a lot lot. Never got bothered. I did get several failed gank attempts on my empty or low value cargo blockade runner though. An untanked travel fit blockade runner....

I agree. CCP, in order to reduce load on the server, can you get rid of the idiots that actually die in hisec?

Its a fine example of what happens when you listen to the bears.

Not just the fittings, ECM man, ECM!!! Having a flight of ECM drones out while you're afk goes a long way to make any solo ganker think twice.

I recently saw 6 destroyers (3 trasher, 3 cata) fail a gank on a tanked Mackinaw in 0.5 It had an expensive faction mod fitted which they were after but they clearly had no idea what they were doing. It was properly tanked (cept for having a 0.5 billion mod) but not even max tanked.

What made it even more hilarious was that it apparently made the miner very smug. He was out the next day again and started mouthing off in local against another gank squad that got a warp in on his position with an alt and then left again (to reship/switch account to ganker I reckon). He was like: "Yeah, you don't scare me! Can't gank me!". 2 minutes later the killmails went up in local, ship and pod. :D

The loot fairy showed it's appreciation and dropped the module.

As for being a bad ass: I don't think ganking makes you a bad ass, I think there are very few things that make you a bad ass in EVE as lets face it: hardly anyone goes up against bad odds with something of significant value on the line. I do think that blubbering about ganking on forums and denying all the ways to avoid getting killed so easily makes ppl look like idiots though....