While that is true for most games and is kind of a general definition, in EVE Online the term “ganking” is almost exclusively used for “suicide ganking” aka sacrificing your ship in HighSec to CONCORD in order to bring down a target before the NPC security forces can intervene. Mostly done for good profits against people who fly careless in a full loot PvP game, but sometimes also just to make a statement, collect tears or pay off some old grudge.
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