Warfare & Tactics

Hello people of EVE

Now, this is not a tear laden post, more one born out of curiosity, and inspired by This Post

Why do people hold these gankers in such high regard? The way I look at it is that every character over 3 months old in eve likes the game, and in most cases spends quite a bit of time dedicated to it. So what joy can be gotten out of killing a miner hard at work, who helps provide the building blocks for the rest of the eve community.

IRL, I love my job as a software engineer. I know that I would not have my job if the company I work for did not exist, but this does not fill me with an urge to come into the office armed with a shotgun and shoot all of the lesser skilled people who use the systems I create.

So whilst I am not sure what responses I will get, I wanted to put the question out there, so lets see what you all come up with :)

It's just funny. I suicide gank in BF3 too. There it's done with an "allah akbar jeep." Needless to say it's a jeep loaded with C4 that you crash into any enemy unit you can. I guess it comes down to the hilarity of things not going as others expect them too. Randomness and a fair bit of anarchy are fun, regardless of the game being played.

Because they recall to everybody that there is no true safe points in Eve and that's the game's best trait.

Even more fun, pop some random inty that has nothing in their hull. The total surprise and personal butt-hurt they express is pretty damn funny.

There's probably a lot of reasons. I personally support them because I strongly object to a system of only consensual PvP in Sandbox MMOs and currently in EVE suicide ganking is the pretty much the only means of PvP in High Sec that doesn't rely on the target giving consent or being completely ignorant of game mechanics. The gankers are the last line of defense from turning High Sec and potentially the whole game into space WoW.

You call him a hero, I would rather say hes good at pew pewing helpless people. Different aspects of the game but calling him a hero is like saying the pro football player who runs over a pop warner player is epic. Not even close to a real PvP engagement. Hes good at screwing around in high sec with easy targets. On the flip side look at people who fight outnumbered and use some pvp mechanics/skill to win, now id say thats a good player.

I think many players have no respect for miners. At the same time, it seems like CCP goes out of their way to try to protect them. So when CCP changes something that makes it harder to attack miners in high sec, it becomes funny to kill them despite CCP's efforts. It becomes an us against CCP game of cat and mouse where CCP tries to defend their defenseless mice, and the cats just find a way to kill them anyway.

come to the dark side. you know you want to. muhahahahaha

Upon reading my post again with a sober set of eyes, I must admit that my choice of words for describing my underlings may have been a bit harsh. But hey, Looks like I got my first forum tears, and I was not even trying to get any :)

I think through these two responses my question has been answered, thanks for all the posts!