EVE General Discussion

This wasn't a comment on your post as much as a complimentary comment to the other person comment. Although the statement is still true and stands up in any situations where tactics are involved against an opponent.

Is it a full moon at the moment?

Conspiracy theories now?

Honestly think many answers are off-topic here.

I simply asked about the reasons of a so amazing ratio of 1:30 compared to other very different ratios for the other top pvp alliances, in particular seeing about a wonderful 74% of solo kills ( I'm studying fittings of FW players and the best solo ratios I find are about 40% and with not comparable ratios at all).

CCP Falcon's stance towards ganking was the same long before CODE came onto the scene...

I think you'd be better off sticking to complaining about the mechanics and not trying to craft devious conspiracy theories - they are just going to make you look like a crazy person.

No, I'm not unveiling anything.

I was partecipating and reading topics that were recently closed and I saw some of the harder answers were from players of an alliance, so I gave a look to that alliance ( I'm used to use zkill for searching fittings of the best solo FW players ) and comparing their ratios to other top pvp alliances I saw they are completely different.

So I'm asking the opinion of a Game developer that I've read was a pvper.

Nothing more, nothing less.

It's amazing how one can rack up one's solo kill stats when one chooses squishy targets that can't shoot back.

We're not talking about 1337 peeveepee 1v1 at the sun gudfight style combat here. We're talking about hisec SUICIDE GANKING.

OK, a lot of kills are on very squishy targets, like mining frigates, Covertors, Retreivers, Hulks and Mac's, all those can be taken down with one or two Catalysts, one if the person has fitted for yield.

The freighter ganks make up based on number of freighters x 3.5bn about 13% of the Goons entire ISK value in terms of kills, I did that calculation earlier today when speaking to a contact about Goons use of freighter ganking to make their killboard look more reasonable.

If you look at the ship ratio it is 57.7%, if you look at the ISK ratio it is 70%, that means that their actual ISk efficiency is really 63%.

And if you did that analysts with recent events you will find the goons are running at around 40% efficiency over the last year.

The forum isn't a personal messaging service to CCP employees, nor is CCP Falcon the only person who can answer the question you asked.

There are several correct answers in the thread already.

Because CODE are risk adverse?

You can be risk adverse and still lose ships and ISK. Most of CODE has figured out the math on how to maximize their ganking attempts for maximum loss on the defender side with minimum loss on the agressor side.

They moan and hiss about the "one more nerf" narrative they got going now. Is it true? Not really, since CCP is beating around the bush to maintain the fragile ecosystem they have in Highsec. Highsec exists currently as a deterrent, so that new players are herded to the real game, that being either Nullsec, Lowsec or Wormhole space (despite CCP's past atempts to make life in there impossible). So technically, Highsec is not the real EVE experience. It's barely a tutorial level. Now we just have to convince the vast majority of the player base that this is the case.

Now, imagine an enemy who's sole joy in life is to make others miserable. Their entire raison d'etre is to cause as much damage as possible, while losing as little as possible. That's CODE right now. Their enjoyment from the game comes from the little cereal box badges of honor they get when they gank someone, the Killmails, and the strife they cause to other people's EVE experience. The more tears and rage they cause, the more success they have as a ganker.

This leads to untold levels of toxicity. To a ganker, a member of CODE, other players aren't part of a community themselves are part of. They are prey. Less than human beings. Pawns in their game to be exploited and disposed of, and watch them squirm as they are hopelessly preyed upon. For every heart warming story of how awesome this community is, there are a dozen untold stories about how low the community can slump into thanks to genetlemen like CODE. Their minerbumping site is a testament to how deranged they are in this roleplaying experience they engage themselves in.

The recently ganked Luxury Yatch with hundreds of injectors inside? There were people salivating at the potencial salt of such a loss. When the owner of the Yatch shrugged it off, people were flabbergasted. Robbed even, of the drama potential of a mental breakdown from this person.

I for one think that the existence of Killmails are the sole cause of this. No other game catalogues losses like this and allow for such ridicule and coveting of battle records. Killmails are a cancer, that motivate people to pursue no other goal in the game other than getting more of them, and their worth as players is measured in the amount of green they have in their records.

Only thing being exploited here is other peoples greed and stupidity.