EVE General Discussion

Hi all, I have just returned to the game after an 18 month break to join in with my son and we are loving it!
We are not carebears, just want intel!!!
We have been ganked twice in a few days, hauling and mining in high sec. All part of the game.......

There was always the risk, but never so much, have also witnessed a few gate ganks too.

BUT has the game changed that much this happens a lot more, or is the a hulkageddon type thing going on we don't know about??
We are practicing the warp drills etc etc but a heads up would be cool!!!!!!

Yes, it has changed a lot :)

No war, I got gate ganked for 120mil on Amarr to Do' run, and today in a usually very quiet system 2 cat's suicide ganked a solo retriever.
also we have seen three high sec ganks in 24 hours, there were always pirates, but never so hectic!
MAy as well play in nullsec, at least always ready for it.....

Todays hit was reasonable people / of sound mind. the hit by complaints dept was them gating a freighter, I just got in the way I guess.....

I'm not whining, just wanna make sure we know the score that's all!!!!
Shiney new member of corp lost his barge 24 hours after meeting us, thinks we set him up and trying to show him solo mining was the issue, not us. Pity because I am naturally choosy who my son hangs out with!!!
Personally I am glad Dull Sec is a little more peppery!

Thank you for the input though.
Personally I would rather my boy learns some of life's lessons in eve, rather than out there!!!

i can see that now.

im not getting how they had the right to shoot you without getting concorded though,
no one on that kill (or the pod) lost a ship .

were you suspect?

LOL, now there is a question! I was smoking, son was flying.... he denies all, another lesson learned for him (I hope).
I'm really not complaining about a specific loss, with the crazy PLEX inflation since I had my break I lost less than a half pint of beer or a whiles worth of ratting / mining.

Was just the general question of level of gank activity really, burning two Cats for a random solo retriever seems a bit crazier than it used to be, that's all. Wasn't sure if there was some form of event going on.
My son warped out the second there was red on his overview ( I taught him some things quite well, corp mate didn't because he wasn't even aligned as the system 'has always been so quiet why has this happened to me!?'

We just like to figure these things out is all.

There was only 1 catalyst involved in the Retreiver kill (Kaal Khamsi loss), which was a straight gank.

Same with the Heron loss also. That was a straight gank.

However, your Iteron loss is a bit strange, since you were killed and podded but no CONCORD response occurred.

That would imply that you were either (1) at war with Complaints Department, (2) were suspect from something you did, or (3) had a killright against you that they activated, making you suspect.

(3) isn't possible looking at your killboard and you aren't at war with Complaints Department, so you must have done something earlier (eg. looted a can) that made you suspect, in which case it wasn't a gank at all, they just killed you because you were a legal target for everyone.

Thanks Tau, that will save me a lot of typing!