# Ganking is a rediculous word to use in EvE, it is PvP where Concord shoots the winner **URL:** \ **Category:** Crime & Punishment\ **Created:** [June 27, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416 "2018-06-27T00:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/243 "2018-07-13T12:38:41Z")
![Cut%20holes%20in%20your%20pockets%20_4097e29a5a82ba67d24f0a9c294ba18f](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/8/5/85826a0988256ee5a17588ea0ce78161dff9fb84.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/244 "2018-07-13T12:39:20Z")
Every game needs it’s villains. In this one, it’s the players. Calling them ‘sociopaths’ might help you feel better about yourself, but it won’t stop them from doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Makavi\_Madeveda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/makavi_madeveda/32/495789_2.png) [@Makavi\_Madeveda](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Makavi_Madeveda)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/245 "2018-07-13T12:44:10Z")
Pretty sure sociopathy, and probably a good dose of sadism, are required traits to enjoy this game. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/246 "2018-07-13T12:45:49Z")
I’m sure that you’re sure about a lot of things. I’m sure, however, that you’re not psychologically qualified to make such an assessment with any degree of professionalism or intellectual integrity. Not to mention impartiality. You’re clearly biased against people who enjoy the game. It’s prescriptive and pejorative, and meaningless at the end of the day. This is a video game. The things people do in it are _not real_. There are no real consequences here, not one. Calling them sociopaths puts them in the same category as serial killers and kitten torturers. All this serves to do is ‘other’ them into an outgroup that is ‘beneath’ you. ---
**Author:** ![Makavi\_Madeveda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/makavi_madeveda/32/495789_2.png) [@Makavi\_Madeveda](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Makavi_Madeveda)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/247 "2018-07-13T12:47:49Z")
I was including myself in that demographic. And since my own shrink diagnosed sociopathy as one of my “special problems”, yeah I’m qualified enough. 😛 Also, you’d better learn what being a sociopath really is. Calling sociopaths serial killers and kitten torturers by default is disgustingly naive and offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/248 "2018-07-13T12:49:34Z")
Being diagnosed with something doesn’t actually make you an expert on diagnosing it in others, I’m sorry. I’m autistic myself but I’m not going to pretend I have the 8+ years of study that the real professionals have gone through to get to where they are to make the real and not to be taken lightly diagnoses of people with mental health issues. ---
**Author:** ![Makavi\_Madeveda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/makavi_madeveda/32/495789_2.png) [@Makavi\_Madeveda](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Makavi_Madeveda)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/249 "2018-07-13T12:50:38Z")
Yet you have no problem spouting falsehoods about those suffering from sociopathy, as if you’re qualified to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/250 "2018-07-13T12:56:57Z")
John Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey McDonald, and Jeffrey Dahmer. All of these people have a few things in common. I know that not all sociopaths are mass murderers and serial killers or kitten torturers, but I’m not ‘spouting falsehoods’, because not only is that a possible outcome of a sociopath, that’s the general perception of a sociopath, which is why people use it as a pejorative to other people and make themselves feel like they’re morally superior. The same thing is done with the excessive way in which ‘nazi’ has been used as a pejorative in the past and now, there are people in the world who literally can’t distinguish a simple economic nationalist from a nazi. There are people in the world who literally think ‘nazi’ just means ‘right wing’. If you have a problem with ‘spouting falsehoods’ about ‘sociopathy’ then do more about people who misappropriate the illness for their own moralistic spruiking about the forums about how only sick and twisted individuals blow up internet space pixels. ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/251 "2018-07-13T14:08:13Z")
ITT: -“Gank” apparently means whatever you want it to. -Persons whom lack or are deficient in empathetic capacity dictating social norms. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Luttrell\_Khan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/marcus_luttrell_khan/32/148357_2.png) [@Marcus\_Luttrell\_Khan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Marcus_Luttrell_Khan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/252 "2018-07-13T19:05:28Z")
I too judge peoples’ actual lives based on their in-game personality. ---
**Author:** ![Minx\_Mattel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/minx_mattel/32/254801_2.png) [@Minx\_Mattel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Minx_Mattel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/253 "2018-07-13T19:43:56Z")
You sound bitter? ---
**Author:** ![Nevyn\_Auscent](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nevyn_auscent/32/255124_2.png) [@Nevyn\_Auscent](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nevyn_Auscent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/254 "2018-07-13T20:26:01Z")
> **[Urban Dictionary: gank](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gank)** > > To steal or take something that does not belong to you. Scroll down to 5. Sure it’s not as shiny or quite as referenced a site. But since we can’t check any of the references on any other dictionary it’s just as good, since other dictionary sites also have similar. Also see Ganking. Picking your dictionary sites on which agree with you does not make you right. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/255 "2018-07-13T21:51:05Z")
The term ganking covers all sorts of underhanded behaviour. Picking unfair fights, either by force of numbers or outclassing your opponent is but one of the many things it covers. TL;DR Shut up Salvos, once again you can’t see the forest because you’re hung up on a leaf. ---
**Author:** ![Otheello\_Bennington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/otheello_bennington/32/84573_2.png) [@Otheello\_Bennington](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Otheello_Bennington)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/256 "2018-07-15T03:23:45Z")
Once again why can’t gankers take their 30 plus ship fleets and go gank a PL or NC Titan or Carrier on a gate in either of the territory of the aforementioned? If all the High Sec Gank bears care about is creating tear campaigns…there are trillions worth of tears sitting on the gates in NC and PL space. ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/257 "2018-07-15T09:45:49Z")
> [@Jonah\_Gravenstein](#): > > TL;DR Shut up Salvos Define “gank” or any other word however you want. That’s what you snowflakes do best. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Luttrell\_Khan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/marcus_luttrell_khan/32/148357_2.png) [@Marcus\_Luttrell\_Khan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Marcus_Luttrell_Khan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/258 "2018-07-15T10:39:56Z")
If you’re going to kill a Titan/Super, you’ll want 30 dreads, not 30 taloses. If you want to kill a carrier, taloses would work. But, where is the fun in that? Often times peoples’ carriers are worth less than freighters. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/259 "2018-07-15T14:32:48Z")
Speaking of people who like to make up definitions for words… Shut up Salvos ---
**Author:** ![Galaxy\_Chicken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/galaxy_chicken/32/45651_2.png) [@Galaxy\_Chicken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Galaxy_Chicken)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/260 "2018-07-15T15:25:07Z")
Lets hear your definition of ‘roleplayers’, Salvos. Lol Where you get off talking about special snowflake definitions, I have no idea! #Specialsnowflakesalvosdefinitions #Wordsmeanwhateversalvossaystheymean #Draclivesmatter ---
**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/261 "2018-07-16T06:12:58Z")
“Gank” still means what it used to, despite your attempts to re-define it. ---
**Author:** ![Galaxy\_Chicken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/galaxy_chicken/32/45651_2.png) [@Galaxy\_Chicken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Galaxy_Chicken)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416/262 "2018-07-16T08:44:56Z")
I think all the definitions of gank here are valid in context so people know what the hell you’re talking about. Stop being a pedantic carebear. It’s just a game, HTFU. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416.md?page=12) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-rediculous-word-to-use-in-eve-it-is-pvp-where-concord-shoots-the-winner/85416.md?page=14)