# CCP successfully eliminated ganking

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 17, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445 "2020-04-17T09:31:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Mara\_Pahrdi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mara_pahrdi/32/277369_2.png) [@Mara\_Pahrdi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mara_Pahrdi)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/85 "2020-04-18T14:42:13Z")

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That’s what I loved about the D2 HC mode. If you messed up, you really had to start over again. But EVE is just fine, looking at these threads 😆.

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**Author:** ![Rekindle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rekindle/32/382332_2.png) [@Rekindle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rekindle)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/86 "2020-04-18T15:18:06Z")

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> [@z0ra\_Berg](#):
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> I am quite impressed by all the kids here who need to compensate their self esteem issues

**checks your posting history** \*  
//facepalms

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**Author:** ![Sevlec\_Saaad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sevlec_saaad/32/377989_2.png) [@Sevlec\_Saaad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sevlec_Saaad)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/87 "2020-04-18T16:16:16Z")

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I still think that perhaps a mechanic that protected new players from ganks for maybe the first three months would encourage more to stay, study and immerse themselves in the game long-term. PVE and FW should be part of the story arcs beyond the SOE experience.

Then, by the time a new player encounters ganking, they may at least have a fighting chance or, hopefully, blame themselves if they get caught.

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**Author:** ![Black\_Pedro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/black_pedro/32/257285_2.png) [@Black\_Pedro](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Black_Pedro)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/88 "2020-04-18T16:19:58Z")

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> [@Rekindle](#):
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> > [@Rekindle](#):
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> > I think this is one of the problems with Eve these days. Too many kids growing up on fortnight dont know what real pvp is.
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> > > Eve is now a game where l33t pvp is expressed in dunking mining barges and that makes me sad.
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> yip, it’s the kill count and no longer the skill of the kill.
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> doesn’t matter if it’s a shuttle, pod, corvette or frigate, this **fortnight** breed of PVP’ers have no skill, no tactics to killing.

🙂

It seems to me that fighting over control of resources and striking your enemy when weak is much more like “real PvP” with its tactics, strategy and consequences, than some honorbru frigate duel at the sun. In fact, those masturbatory LOL fun fleets are much more akin to Fortnite-style consequence-free PvP, than the visceral competition that goes on between hunter and prey everyday in Eve.

I mean come on you two, don’t you have a copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War by your bedside? I mean no where in there is there anything about arranged fun fleet fights being the only _real_ type of war, or that you shouldn’t strike at your enemy when they are away from their keyboard because it isn’t honourable. When you are engaging in _real PvP_ you are playing to win, and if that means you gotta dunk some miner, or shoot some interloper in a shuttle, you do it.

I mean, you can roleplay a Space Samurai in New Eden if you want, and invent all sorts of silly rules about what forms of competition you accept as ethical, but keep that RP in-game please. Or maybe take it to whatever no-loss, consequence-free lobby shooter you prefer where you can have your infinite respawns and balanced PvP. But please, stop embarrassing yourselves by trying to define what is _real PvP_ in a game where the whole core concept is that everything, everywhere is PvP. It’s a damn PvP sandbox game! It’s PvP, all the way down, and then some!

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**Author:** ![DrysonBennington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/drysonbennington/32/501369_2.png) [@DrysonBennington](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DrysonBennington)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/89 "2020-04-18T16:35:50Z")

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By manipulate the system and winning, do you mean operating a titan on a bot alt account?

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**Author:** ![Rekindle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rekindle/32/382332_2.png) [@Rekindle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rekindle)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/90 "2020-04-18T16:38:36Z")

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> [@Black\_Pedro](#):
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> striking your enemy when weak is

I’d agree with your half baked idea if mining barges had better natural utility against things like scan res or warp strength.

Every time CCP nerfs something to give the l33t pvp’rs [gankers] an edge they fail to offer any type of counter buff or even the sensation of a counter buff to incentive the mining pilot.

Instead the miner is suposed to mine, or warp away or whatever unless they wanna be one shotted in a catalyst.

You can quote your books all you want but theres pvp and there’s quality pvp and some of us see the difference.

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**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/91 "2020-04-18T16:43:03Z")

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> [@Ramona\_McCandless](#):
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> Animal Farm?

> [@z0ra\_Berg](#):
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> I don’t remember that one at all. I was more talking about 1984 and Big Brother.

Along those lines and also a study of human nature in a dystopia; William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a good read.

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**Author:** ![Rekindle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rekindle/32/382332_2.png) [@Rekindle](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rekindle)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/92 "2020-04-18T16:43:55Z")

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> [@Karak\_Terrel](#):
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> you just have to pick the right hull for the job, fit your ship and pay attention to the game.

I agree with the paying attention part by let’s get real. Since the sweeping changes to make everything more gankable where has the idea of any new utility for ships been suggested or even thought of.

“PvP” against miners in this game is a joke - Why not let miners sacrifce yeild for enhanced combat / counter measures instead of just nerfing everything all the time?

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**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/93 "2020-04-18T16:44:56Z")

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> [@Rekindle](#):
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> Why not let miners sacrifce yeild for enhanced combat / counter measures

This is called a Skiff or a Procurer, together they make up 1/3 of the range of mining barges.

They’re still gankable with effort, but their reputation for being tough nuts to crack is enough to put off all but the determined.

Combat ability is good for an industrial ship, and the countermeasures that come with the hull are its reputation.

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**Author:** ![Ash\_Beldrulf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ash_beldrulf/32/473706_2.png) [@Ash\_Beldrulf](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ash_Beldrulf)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/94 "2020-04-18T16:55:02Z")

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> **[zkillboard.com / Kills (Ganked)](https://zkillboard.com/kills/ganked/)**
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> zkillboard.com is a killboard for the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) EVE-Online.

I agree with the OP. There is risk for the reward ganker get. WOW risk a 12M isk Cat or an 18M battlescruiser. I thought once that Eve was about Risk Vs Reward but we all better then that.

I hope CCP fixes this game but I am enjoying watching the train wreck but I am done being a customer of CCP!

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**Author:** ![Black\_Pedro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/black_pedro/32/257285_2.png) [@Black\_Pedro](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Black_Pedro)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/95 "2020-04-18T17:01:41Z")

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> [@Rekindle](#):
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> You can quote your books all you want but theres pvp and there’s quality pvp and some of us see the difference.

Ok, I will quote some _Art of War_ then:

**“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”**

- This bit of wisdom teach us that to win, you have to pick your battles. In Eve, that means shooting a ship when you are in a position of strength and advantage, and when do you have more advantage than when your opponent is in a ship with no guns?

**“If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.”**

- This bit is practically commanding you to gank ships in highsec! To win, you have to shoot that mining barge, even if CONCORD forbids it, at least as long as you have enough DPS to kill it. If not, well, then don’t shoot it.

**“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”**

- In Eve the victor is the one that has prepared, and attacks his opponent only when he knows he will win. That is _real PvP_. Only “defeated warriors” to quote Sun Tzu seek balanced frigate fights at the sun when they haven’t ensured the high ground first.

**“Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”**

- I mean, this is practically Sun Tzu inventing miner dunking!

I’ll stop here, but I highly recommend every Eve player study this text on a regular basis. Not only might it help cleanse you of your white knight, eBushido fantasies and delusions of what _real PvP_ is, it will help you become a better Eve player. There is all sorts of good stuff in there that will make you a better warrior and PvPer in general.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/96 "2020-04-18T17:01:52Z")

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Nope.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/97 "2020-04-18T17:03:12Z")

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> [@Rekindle](#):
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> Instead the miner is suposed to mine, or warp away

Hence the term “Miner”

or l33t PvEr if you prefer

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**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/98 "2020-04-18T17:15:07Z")

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Von Clausewitz’s On War is also relevant to Eve; as are Mao Zedong’s and T.E. Lawrence’s works on Guerrilla Warfare.

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**Author:** ![Esturary](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/esturary/32/393585_2.png) [@Esturary](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Esturary)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/99 "2020-04-18T17:54:30Z")

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Us high sec hunters have to kill something…considering you can skirt wardec mechanics with holding companies these day your gonna see ganking increase. Salty tears.

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**Author:** ![Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nicolai_serkanner/32/358049_2.png) [@Nicolai\_Serkanner](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nicolai_Serkanner)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/100 "2020-04-18T20:07:50Z")

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> [@Ciele\_Wolf](#):
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> don´t compare real life with this game only messed up people that need help can´t distinguish reality with fantasy.
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> If you got hit in the real life by a ■■■■■■■ car you would 1 proboly ■■■■■■■ die depending on the speed or to if you survive you would most likely sue the ■■■■■■■ ass out of who ever hit you if you got hes license plate and the driver would face real ■■■■■■■ consequences. That would make you ganker´s ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ your pants if ever had to face.

Try to write in English please. I don’t read Gibberish.

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**Author:** ![Eve\_Griefer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eve_griefer/32/277788_2.png) [@Eve\_Griefer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eve_Griefer)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/101 "2020-04-18T20:44:37Z")

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> [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](#):
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> This is called a Skiff or a Procurer,

Doesn’t matter how many times you tell people to use well fitted, non-blinged ships, and not overload haulers, they will continue to provide easy kills.

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**Author:** ![Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jonah_gravenstein/32/386819_2.png) [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jonah_Gravenstein)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/102 "2020-04-18T20:48:56Z")

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They have freedom of choice, which is all well and good; they forget that all freedoms have consequences.

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**Author:** ![Tintallei\_Sharan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tintallei_sharan/32/373000_2.png) [@Tintallei\_Sharan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tintallei_Sharan)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/103 "2020-04-18T21:21:18Z")

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> [@Rekindle](#):
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> I think this is one of the problems with Eve these days. Too many kids growing up on fortnight dont know what real pvp is.
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> Eve is now a game where l33t pvp is expressed in dunking mining barges and that makes me sad.

Funny you bring that on the table, since the actual truth is that anybody speaking about “real pvp” ARE the ones who are the most likely to come from games like Fortnite.

Because they grown with arena games, where everything is “fair”, “safe”, and under control. And they are not used to the brutality of non-consensual PvP.

So they believe their super safe and “fair-play” environment is a “real” PvP, and anything more brutal and unforgiving is not.

You shouldn’t try to passively insult people with the Fortnite comparaison, while actually being the defender of a mentality that is perfectly suited for a real Fortnite player. I’m afraid it makes you a bit ridiculous.

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**Author:** ![z0ra\_Berg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/z0ra_berg/32/187042_2.png) [@z0ra\_Berg](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/z0ra_Berg)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ccp-successfully-eliminated-ganking/233445/104 "2020-04-18T21:28:38Z")

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I’ve read that one, but wasn’t impressed.

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