# Ganking is a valid form of gameplay, just like PvP everywhere else in EVE Online, and it takes practice to get good at, more inside **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206 "2026-02-23T17:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 50
**Author:** ![Murder\_Maid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/murder_maid/32/515993_2.png) [@Murder\_Maid](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Murder_Maid)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1012 "2026-11-08T01:43:15Z")
@Gloria_Exercitus Follow my trail, the game is afoot! ![1000003402](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/3/9/53924931fa0ae983d0aa002dc65cc0f713e3017e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1013 "2026-11-08T03:46:26Z")
> [@Glenduil](#): > > Dude, just learn to protect yourself from gankers and you won’t have to ever worry about them again. Nah…he’s just got to have _some_ excuse to whine on the forums. And, of course, with such people it will always be a ’ think of the children !’ type whine pretending to be soooo concerned about others. Basically such people are just well poisoning dog in a manger…they never really enjoyed the game and they don’t want anyone else to. ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1014 "2026-11-08T03:50:46Z")
> [@Lucy\_Alfrir](#): > > Like this one? > > “Points: 7” Yup…its the EVE equivalent of ‘The Hand Of God’…when everyone knows it was a hand ball but you get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Rochard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/john_rochard/32/516830_2.png) [@John\_Rochard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/John_Rochard)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1015 "2026-11-08T03:52:39Z")
@Lucy_Alfrir Looks like the police gave you credit for the kill, final blow flying in a **capsule**. You should frame it. My intent isn’t to victimize anyone’s game play style. I was just going to tell @Aiko_Danuja there is some talk around the water cooler at BRUCE, of taking down her photo off our dart board. I told our CEO about the shear number of gankers killed compared to miners. She is thinking of giving you a reward, a medal, or commendation. Just keep up the good work. o7 ---
**Author:** ![Aiko\_Danuja](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aiko_danuja/32/481237_2.png) [@Aiko\_Danuja](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aiko_Danuja)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1016 "2026-11-08T04:16:23Z")
I’m not only the best ganker in the history of the game, I’m also the best antiganker. 🥇 Here’s another sick antigank from earlier today: > **[Slasher | Customs Officer Andrew | Killmail](https://zkillboard.com/kill/139755358/)** > > Customs Officer Andrew (The Twelve Apostles) lost their Slasher in Muvolailen (The Citadel). Final Blow by Aiko Danuja (Tsundere Death Squad) flying solo in a Coercer. Total Value: 4,000,779.98 ISK 🔥 ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1017 "2026-11-08T10:11:22Z")
> [@Glenduil](#): > > Dude, just learn to protect yourself from gankers and you won’t have to ever worry about them again. You are not even able to understand that THE DEVS have to protect everybody that does not WANT pvp from it instead of what you propose? This is what every other game on the market does and this is good as it is and this game HAS to do what every other game does… Botton line… It’s NOT the job of the user to do those things. the developer has to actively MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE for people that think they can shoot whereever and at whoever they like to do it. This has -in my opinion- to go as far as perm bans for all accounts of said player if repeatly done… This game NEEDS to be adjusted to what ‘normal players of 2026’ can expect from every other game( to be protected from those borderline people that really think THEY can decide what to do and that rules are only for others)… That is all that is to say about those people…simply show them that they are wrong by punishing them and remove them from the game. No loss at all…and i don’t care about your opinion at all. It is irrelevant and you only deny this because you don’t want to change the game at all. Change bothers you most of all because instead you would have to stop shooting unarmed ships and you would have to deal with people that actively can shoot back in low and null… This is what you fear most…opposition, real danger of losing…this is why you are so upset… ---
**Author:** ![Lydra\_Victor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lydra_victor/32/515931_2.png) [@Lydra\_Victor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lydra_Victor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1018 "2026-11-08T10:33:54Z")
> [@James\_Fuchs](#): > > I really like your GIFs pervert. lol > [@Murder\_Maid](#): > > Miners are so stupid I like mining without a permit using a pioneer. I don’t like mining barges it’s too embarrassing to die inside those frog looking ships. ---
**Author:** ![Lydra\_Victor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lydra_victor/32/515931_2.png) [@Lydra\_Victor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lydra_Victor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1019 "2026-11-08T10:46:18Z")
you give me an idea to gank those kinds of frigates with a thrasher as a hobby. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1020 "2026-11-08T11:01:08Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > You are not even able to understand that THE DEVS have to protect everybody that does not WANT pvp from it instead of what you propose? EVE is fundamentally a PvP game. The PvP is not some aberation…it is the very core of the game and drives the economy. If you do not like PvP…then _go play something else_ and stop hanging about like a bad smell and poisoning the well with your negativity and ranting. Seriously, you are like someone whining that there are bunkers in golf, and expecting all the bunkers to be removed and the entire rules changed _just for you_. PvP in highsec has been a fundamental part of the game for 23 years. It is core to the very nature of the game and part of what makes the very identity of the game. EVE without that would no longer be EVE. But you are just a dog in a manger who is not really enjoying the game and the risk in it…and who thus doesn’t want anyone else to. ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1021 "2026-11-08T11:07:42Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > to be protected from those borderline people that really think THEY can decide what to do The sheer irony…of _you_ ranting away trying to decide that people who have played the game a certain way _for 23 years_ should not be able to do so. No-one fits the profile of what you describe better than you yourself ! ---
**Author:** ![Lydra\_Victor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lydra_victor/32/515931_2.png) [@Lydra\_Victor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lydra_Victor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1022 "2026-11-08T11:20:11Z")
One counter of suicide ganking is suicide mining using a cheap ship.. It’s cheaper to die if caught than buffing your defenses. ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1023 "2026-11-08T11:22:06Z")
> [@Gloria\_Exercitus](#): > > EVE is fundamentally a PvP game. BLAH BLAH BLAH Things will change…get used to it or leave…you have no grip to oppose or change it… ---
**Author:** ![Skott\_Atram](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/skott_atram/32/515634_2.png) [@Skott\_Atram](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Skott_Atram)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1024 "2026-11-08T11:22:52Z")
> [@Gloria\_Exercitus](#): > > EVE is fundamentally a PvP game. The PvP is not some aberation…it is the very core of the game and drives the economy. I would love to blast your ship inside the HS station and defend this mechanic by calling eve a pvp game. That will be sure funny ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1025 "2026-11-08T11:23:00Z")
> [@Lydra\_Victor](#): > > One counter of suicide ganking is suicide mining using a cheap ship.. It’s cheaper to die if caught than buffing your defenses. You don’t get it…it will be not possible at all in high the moment excordium is widened to all of high like it is planned… ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1026 "2026-11-08T11:24:38Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > the moment excordium is widened to all of high like it is planned… Is FCCCP going to nerf ganking? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1027 "2026-11-08T11:25:59Z")
> [@Skott\_Atram](#): > > I would love to blast your ship inside the HS station and defend this mechanic by calling eve a pvp game. That will be sure funny You and everybody that hates change in this game HAD the chance to archive this…It was called ‘walking in station’ and even the one room that was just a test to see how this would work was rejected by stupid people that don’t want ANY change at all… This was mainly YOUR fault… ---
**Author:** ![Murder\_Maid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/murder_maid/32/515993_2.png) [@Murder\_Maid](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Murder_Maid)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1028 "2026-11-08T11:27:23Z")
The exordiums doors are always open for those who do not want pvp in highsec, they can feel free to put on their floaties, life preserver and grab a boogie board for the kiddie pool. @Uta_Asmai ![1000003412](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/2/e/3/2e3ed4074a3f5726b6b89e79c7ebfe6e16a8497d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1029 "2026-11-08T11:28:00Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Is FCCCP going to nerf ganking? 🤔 Did you live under a rock for the last half year? I got taunted and insulted for saying this since i first stated this will come by the ‘we don’t need any change in this game’ people… 🙂 Still i’m here being right… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Uta\_Asmai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uta_asmai/32/476817_2.png) [@Uta\_Asmai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uta_Asmai)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1030 "2026-11-08T11:29:27Z")
> [@Murder\_Maid](#): > > The exordiums doors are always open for those who do not want pvp in highsec, they can feel free to put on their floaties, life preserver and grab a boogie board for the kiddie pool. You will not change what will come regardless what you do… End of remark 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-is-a-valid-form-of-gameplay-just-like-pvp-everywhere-else-in-eve-online-and-it-takes-practice-to-get-good-at-more-inside/507206/1031 "2026-11-08T11:29:51Z")
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