EVE General Discussion

I would say an easy kill is when your target is not shooting back at you.

I would say all of your kills but you do have the small matter of Concord shooting at you.

I'm not arguing for or against 'space samurai' but to say that there is no such thing as an easy kill is disingenuous. Warping to a belt and finding a miner not paying attention to local in null is an easy kill. A greedy indy trying to cut through low, webbed and scrammed 15km off the gate is an easy kill. It isn't about whether or not you should be killing them, it's still an easy kill.

Those are no more 'easy' than most kills in the game.

But that isn't my main point. The point is that those that have been ganked and have little PvP experience like to throw 'easy kill' as some sort of insult, something you funnily enough you don't find coming out of the mouth of experienced PvPers as often as they know how much of Eve combat are 'easy kills'.

A kill is a kill. Indeed some kills take more risk/effort/luck/skill than others, but that is almost always under the control of the one who gets exploded. And in the case of much of the PvP in this game the 'challenge' level of the kill is secondary to a greater goal. If I am trying to earn some ISK by pirating, I don't care how tough a kill is - in fact I want my victim to make it easy. If I am evicting someone from a wormhole I want, I don't care if I get a "gud fight" or not. If I am trying to take sov, or win a system in FW, the challenge of a particular engagement isn't that important.

Sure, fun fights are always welcome, and some people seek out that challenging fight as their primary goal in Eve, but for most activities in the sandbox whether something is 'easy' or 'hard' is secondary to something else.

Whatever carebears. Use your 'easy kill' meme as justification as why you lost a ship if that makes you feel better. You still lost that ship, and will likely lose another if you don't improve your game to make yourself a harder target to explode.

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Well... You almost right here.

However it's easier: you (high-sec gankers) claim yourself as 'content creators', as 'high-sec owners', as 'new law', etc... This gives people rights to ask you about quality of your 'content', etc....

Should you just say 'crew you guys, i'm having fun blowing sheet' nobody would ever say anything about it. But you chose different path, path of Warrior

Yeah, pretty much all kills. Some really bad PvP pilots: guys in stealth bomber gangs who volley or bomb ships off the field. Terrible PvPers.

Correction, no solo miners jetcan mine. Large mining fleets still jetcan mine (usually with a MTU) as it's more efficient than having the miners warp to station every time their hold is full. This is particularly true if said mining fleet is using covetors/hulks.

I am always kind of surprised why it is so much more upsetting to some players if you tell them they where killed for a reason and that they are not a victim of random violence.

For my HTFU friends