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Your efforts are to be praised Simms. I may not agree with your methods but I can embrace your motivations.

179 mill is a large loss ? geez some ppl need to get some perspective.

Even on the scale of high sec ganking the New Order activities are "Big Frog in Little Puddle" stuff. I suppose you could see New Order as a training ground for ppl moving on eventually to 'nado gangs or something.

Serious ganking is stuff like a friend of mine who sells mulibillion BPOs by contract for a cheap but not suspicious price then logs in his ganking alt and waits for the buyer to try and move it. At least 50% of the time he gets the BPO back to sell again. He then contacts the victim with his original alt and says he "knows a merc that will kill the ganker for a bounty by contract" and kills his first alt with a second alt, getting rid of the killmail and getting paid a few hundred million bounty.

He seems to make quite a few billion a week doing this and isn't even on that often. Seriously someone wasting an hour bumping a noob in a mining ship to collect 10 mill extortion money is small scale stuff.

Haven't read the whole thread it's long. Here are a fee random thoughts.

1. Sociopaths are people too. Estimated 1 - 3% pf the population in fact. This does not make them bad people. To gain an insight into what being a sociopath us like my I recommend www.sociopathworld.com. I don't see why it is acceptable to use sociopath as an insult.
2. Anyone who takes the time to think about it can work out how to make a pretty good profit from suicide ganking. Unfortunately I doubt any of the people that complain about it would be willing to do so. Hint... Do you think the New Order doesn't have an industrial wing?
3. I suspect the main cause of player burnout is repetition. Most ganking characters are alts. What a banker gets out if it is quite likely a change of pace from whatever sov-grind, plex farming, solo roaming etc they normally do.

LD

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I don't really feel like Ganking belongs in the NPE, except perhaps as a reference.

It's not what I'd call a "core" part of what the NPE is for; which is learning how to actually operate the game, not play it in every aspect known to man.

That said they could be more explicit in informing new players that High Sec != Safe which is really the lesson to be learned.

You're a bit dim, aren't you?

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