EVE General Discussion

It's like hunting, scouting for game and observing and assessing them without alarming them and getting them b4 they log off/go mission/whatever.

Ganking is not super hard, but it's not super easy either, it does require effort and a certain ammount of skill. And that's part of the thrill, is your effort going to pay off in the form of a nice kill mail or not?

There is always the off chance that you are flying into a trap. Or if the miners have "white knights" in the belt with them you have to judge wether they will be able to stop you from performing the gank or if you can pull it off even in their presence. Ganks happen fast so if you get the idea the white knights aren't paying attention you can go for it and sometimes they are just woefully underequiped to stop ganks. Most fun is when you gank the white knights instead of the miners. :P

I'm not a fanatic ganker but I've ganked my fair share, it still get's my heart rate up whenever I hit the warp button and land on top of the target.

Does it get boring? Yes, it can get very boring, like pretty much everything else in EVE, still beats the crap out of mining though, now THAT get's boring real fast (I should know, I started my EVE career as a miner).

End of thread right here, Dirk wins lol.

I don'thave much experience with hunting in real life, I have gone duck hunting twice and a work buddy took me bow hunting once (didn't get anything that time) so that's 3 times in my 40 years. What's incredible is that the same attitude you get from the anti ganking folks in gam is the same you get in real life from the vegan-peta-meat is murder' tree hugger types.

I evenonce heard a lady say that hunters were cowards "because bambi can't shoot back". Irecently realized that if she had played EVE she would have been saying "go to low sec if you want to pvp" LOL.

Suicide hunting, remind me to pass on that offer.

You've heard it here folks.

Banding together because being organized is the only way to overcome the repeated and unnecessary nerfs to your playstyle is directly equivalent to a violent, destructive terrorist group known for their penchant for sex slavery.

So, are you naturally insane, or did too much carebearing make you this way?

It's not my style

So, the real life Elmer Fudd has outed himself.

This is an example of what i said about you in the past. you are incapable of understandings that other people are different from you. This is common in video games in general and specifically in EVE. Many people question why others do things like they do, like "why do you mine, that's boring" or :"why do you run missions, they make less isk than station trading. It's evidence of an intensly selfish worldview.

At the end of the day, why people choose to play a video game within it's rules is none of your business. I understand this and dsiplay this understanding every night in the game by not giving a damn about why people want to kill me, I simply protect myself against the occurence and move forward with my fun time.

The countless threads such as this are appeal enough.

You missed a word. Not valuable TO YOU. That's what you are never able to comprehend. Even if you don't find 'value' in something, some one else may.

You don't know why other people do the things they do, or why they enjoy them. For instance, you don't know for a fact that some people gank (or pay for ganking) as a tool to stifle competition. Or to even a personal grudge. Or out of a sense of striking a blow against the lazy and entitled etc etc.

Allof those things have value to other people. You don't get to decide what is universally valuable to everyone, you get to decide that for yourself, just like me.

I personally don't see the value in ganking versus the other things I do in game (exploring, mission running and occasionally incursions). Know what that means? It means i don't gank and I protect myself from being ganked, and that's ALL it means. My opinion applies to me and me alone, others may do as they wish for whatever reason they wish because freedom (within the EULA) is at the heart of EVE, not matter what people with your...authoritarian tendencies like to think.

Don't like 'noobs' being ganked? Go out there and protect them. Teach them how to fly safe a minimize the chances of being ganked. Encourage them to take pride in being able to evade ganking (while teaching them that even if you do the best you can, you can still explode, because that's the kind of game EVE is).

Of course, you won't do any of that because that involves more effort than running to the forums advocating CCP change a core aspect of the game (which ganking represents) "for the sake of the children noobs".

Would you go AFK while playing any other PvP game?