# Change the miner downtime caused by gankers **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [July 24, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/change-the-miner-downtime-caused-by-gankers/456844 "2024-07-24T21:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/change-the-miner-downtime-caused-by-gankers/456844/5 "2024-07-24T22:51:44Z")
OP, there’s little chance of getting any traction with a request to CCP to ‘fix’ ganking or improve miners’ chances. Ganking has been a feature of EVE since inception, discussed endlessly, and seen little effective change - some tweaking to numbers here and there is about all CCP does/will do. You’re better off educating yourself as to how, where, why and when gankers are likely to select you as a target, and then learn how to avoid them. This might be a good place to start, as well as googling various “how avoid ganks” topics: > [@A Nobody's Guide to Not Getting Ganked](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-nobodys-guide-to-not-getting-ganked/404860): > > Before we begin, we need to clearly define what we mean by ganking. For the purposes of this guide, ganking is an attack on a ship in high sec that results in the attacker being destroyed by CONCORD. That means that while some of these suggestions might help in low-sec, null-sec, or J-space, but that is not the primary goal of this guide. First of all, set all the known ganking groups to orange or red in your contacts list. Type the name of the group in the search bar in your Eve client (its… In the meantime, prepare for many replies from people who relish the opportunity to further dunk on someone who’s already been dunked on, because apparently they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be new in the game. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/change-the-miner-downtime-caused-by-gankers/456844)._