Ganking and PVP: Numbers in perspective

So to summarise, you’ve chosen a measure which only means something to you and used that to judge other people and find them unworthy of being allowed an opinion?

You’re not the first one to take that approach, though you probably are the first person to do so while having an unimpressive killboard yourself.

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Most players don’t give a fig about killboards, just you and your ilk trying to boost your own egos.

You’re just like old western gun slingers putting a notch on your pistol grips for each kill to show how good you are, but you’re not really.

We do stuff, just not what you do, how hard is that to understand?

Btw, go read the EvE hand book for new starters, PvP gets 2 mentions and the first one is around page 10? Every other profession is mentioned before PvP, which gets a couple of lines.

It shows how much CCP think about PvP.

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yeah no you can’t speck what so ever about pvp

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Well I can assure you I have undocked so there’s that misunderstanding cleared up. If you feel my opinion is unworthy, you can feel free to ignore it. I tend to judge peoples opinions by the substance of those opinions.

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And in the past 3 years you have not lost a single ship…despite your attestation that you play AFK ? So if you do undock regularly…is that not essentially an admission that your PvE is way too easy ?

Clearly not on this character. When did I say I play AFK?

Have you got anything to say that is on topic?

Lol…you did so only a week or so ago. Maybe you’ve gotten so twisted up in your lies that you’ve forgotten your own posts. I mean you quite openly stated that you watch Netflix while supposedly playing Eve.

Since when was pointing out that a commentor has not lost a ship in 3 years not relevant to a thread on numbers of ships destroyed ?

You’re mistaking me for someone else. Your opinion on my killboard is not relevant to a discussion on ganking. I won’t be responding to any more comments on it.

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Obvious alts are obvious, no matter how much it may be painted as otherwise. He’s not fooling anyone and it’s best to put them on the ignore list and only interact with the “main.” Otherwise you are just feeding into the devious antisocial behavior.

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Nope. You clearly stated you watch Netflix while supposedly playing Eve.

You don’t have a killboard for over 3 years. That is totally utterly relevant to any discussion of the ‘I mainly do PvP’ that you claim to do.

I just find it odd, and entirely relevant, that an entire side in this debate is being championed by half a dozen people none of whom have any killboard for 3 years or more. There’s no evidence any of you even undock…yet you all profess to be somehow experts on the game.

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Most people are making snowmen at this time of year.

But it looks like you only have straw to work with.

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finger-guns with a wink and a click of the tongue

That’s not me…

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They’re actually encouraging new player ganking by setting harder and harder restrictions making them damn-near our only possible target.

Shooting for profit is basically dead unless you’re hacking like Ivicek.

Yeah, the current changes haven’t done what CCP are aiming for them to do. Though they haven’t actually made it less profitable to gank freighters with their recent changes and there are still triple bulkhead freighters dying. I think they were hoping people would try to avoid being -10 and not waste sec status loss on pointless kills, but that’s not the outcome.

I do still think the changes are good changes though as they fix other surrounding issues, like alpha accounts being used for temporary gankers and that sec status really didn’t affect a whole lot. I just think they need to find a better way to discourage new player ganking while encouraging profitable ganks.

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Freighters dying =/= profit. Profitable ganking pays subs. I’ve been watching the killboards and none of these guys are turning a profit. Hell they’ll be lucky to break even. They’re doing it because it’s fun to them or they want Eve to burn.

Alpha ganking, again, was never a problem please quit bringing this up, it’s irrelevant. CCP literally only mentions it because y’all cry about it (even though it basically never happens). Just more of the same lip service.

Ganking didn’t and doesn’t need a nerf. We’ve been getting nothing but repeated nerfs for a decade. If they want us shooting more expensive stuff they’re going to have to buff the playstyle. More nerfs will just lead to more spiteful gameplay from the few that remain.

It needs to be fun to shoot for profit again, that’s the only thing that will fix the playstyle and why basically all the ganking is for fun at this point.

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Lol…yet another one who has zero killboard record…in over 5 years. And if you are telling me you’ve never lost a ship to PvE in all that time then you are also saying PvE is way too easy. But then again…that’s why you guys cant cope with PvP and want to fill Eve with easy to kill belt rats.

It just astonishes me that again and again I look at the killboard of you anti PvP people and again and again the killboard just stops years ago…with zero evidence any of you guys having ever undocked or played the game since.

I’ve lost lots of ships in my years here, in all spaces, HS, LS NULL, WH etc.

I’m not anti PvP as such, just anti bullying.

As I said, killboards mean absolutely nothing to me, I’ll ask again.

What part of that don’t you understand?

I have kills, and losses. It’s not my problem you can’t see them on your favourite notice boards. Lol in one night I lost 2 or 3 Rattlesnakes ratting after falling asleep after a few too many beers.

Is that on your killboards? I don’t care, nor do I care about the Asteros kill in Null.

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Sure, but when triple bulkhead freighters are still dying to ~400m of gankers, that is profit, and that’s the low end of freighter ganks.

Alpha ganking wasn’t a problem in terms of fleets of alphas controlled by one person, but the ability to train an alpha for free in the background then just swap to a new alpha when positive sec status was needed, that was a problem.

In my opinion it does. But I appreciate you hold a different view.

This isn’t true. There have been nerfs and buffs just like every other playstyle.

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:joy: :rofl: :joy:

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I’m sorry but it’s just not a profit. Nobody is going to pay $800 a month for 40 subs just to gank freighters. Profit would be paying all 40 of those subs and having isk left over which I know for a fact isn’t happening.

These freighter gank fleets are only possible because of guys like Hawk with 20 accounts that can afford to buy subs in bulk to take advantage of CCP Plex deals. If it weren’t for folks like Hawk freighter ganking would be completely dead and it’s already to the point where they barely break even every month (again, you can’t argue with this, I talk to these folks in discord all the time. I’m hearing it straight from the source).

There has been 2 buffs to ganking in 10 years (and countless nerfs) destroyer rework and citadels but the citadels have been taken away and ship hulls have been made way tankier. So yes, FACTUALLY, ganking has received repeated nerfs. So much so that the only two buffs we’ve gotten IN AN ENTIRE DECADE were removed also.

You’re just choosing to believe whatever lines up with your bias. Your “opinion” can’t contradict fact. That’s a delusion and trying to push that delusion on others is called gaslighting.

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