# 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:** 51
**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, 11:30am 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/507206/1032 "2026-11-08T11:30:43Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Maybe I didn’t notice your posts. 🤔 Maybe 🙂 Or you just try another approach to devalue them? 🙂 ---
**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, 11:32am 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/507206/1033 "2026-11-08T11:32:00Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > devalue them Why would I want to devalue them? Are you under the false assumption I’m a ganker or something? 🤔 ---
**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, 11:33am 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/507206/1034 "2026-11-08T11:33:26Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Why would I want to devalue them? Are you under the false assumption I’m a ganker or something? 🤔 Sorry…i’ve seen SO many people that just reject anything i say just because they didn’t WANT me to be right that i automatically think everything could be an unfriendly approach…🙂 ---
**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, 11:35am 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/507206/1035 "2026-11-08T11:35:44Z")
Where will all the gankers go, we need love too ![1000003413](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/a/9/e/a9e5009c0f9a7ed14c4ff183fe226587db458cd4.jpeg) ---
**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, 11:36am 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/507206/1036 "2026-11-08T11:36:56Z")
My question was more of an inquiry if FCCCP announced something or if you expect it to happen without an announcement. Basically was just curious if I’ve missed an announcement or dev comment in an interview or something. 🤔 ---
**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, 11:38am 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/507206/1037 "2026-11-08T11:38:48Z")
> [@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 It would be even funnier if I blasted you first. ---
**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, 11:39am 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/507206/1038 "2026-11-08T11:39:46Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > My question was more of an inquiry if FCCCP announced something or if you expect it to happen without an announcement. Basically was just curious if I’ve missed an announcement or dev comment in an interview or something. 🤔 not yet…but expect it after the end of the year…Excordium was a test at least this is clear and the supposed change is about to come even if some people here deny it and marebite at anything and everybody who states it… They did even go as far as report me for saying this btw(with no result at all) And now look at how they will react to what i just said 😛 Especially Gloria’blah blah blah’ Exercitus ---
**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, 11:43am 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/507206/1039 "2026-11-08T11:43:27Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > My question was more of an inquiry if FCCCP announced something or if you expect it to happen without an announcement. ALL we have to go by is his claim of ‘inside knowledge’. He’s probably completely mis-interpreted what some dev said at a fanfest…most likely he misconstrued early comments about Exordium. There is absolutely nothing official…no announcement whatever or even a hint of one. Uta is just some Walter Mitty making stuff up. ---
**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, 11:43am 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/507206/1040 "2026-11-08T11:43:49Z")
So gankers can expect an unpleasant new year’s gift from FCCCP? 🤔 :psyccp: ---
**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, 11:44am 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/507206/1041 "2026-11-08T11:44:02Z")
> [@Gloria\_Exercitus](#): > > ALL we have to go by is his claim of ‘inside knowledge’. He’s probably completely mis-interpreted what some dev said at a fanfest…most likely he misconstrued early comments about Exordium. There is absolutely nothing official…no announcement whatever or even a hint of one. Uta is just some Walter Mitty making stuff up. See…? Marebiting… 😛 This is why i don’t take them serious at all… So predictable… ---
**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, 11:45am 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/507206/1042 "2026-11-08T11:45:28Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > false assumption I’m a ganker He thinks we are all gankers. ---
**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, 11:47am 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/507206/1043 "2026-11-08T11:47:34Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > not yet…but expect it after the end of the year Woah…hang on. Not long ago you were saying ’ before Christmas’. Now its early next year. Sounds to me like the 2012 end of the world…which has now been delayed for 14 years > [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > They did even go as far as report me for saying this Well of course. All rumour-mongering is prohibited. I’m just amazed they’ve let you get away with it for so long. What’s more, I cannot even begin to sum up the sheer **scandal** it would be if some nobody player had been given insider info months in advance. ---
**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, 11:58am 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/507206/1044 "2026-11-08T11:58:37Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > So gankers can expect an unpleasant new year’s gift from FCCCP? New year will come and go and nothing will happen. And then Uta will claim its been changed to Easter…and so on. With any luck, after him wishing everyone else a ‘happy ragequit’ for months…he’ll be the one rage quitting when EVE just carries on as normal. He will not be missed. ---
**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, 12:09pm 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/507206/1045 "2026-11-08T12:09:40Z")
> [@Murder\_Maid](#): > > Where will all the gankers go, we need love too I imagine they’d take up a whole new activity…blockading highsec. If you think lowsec gate camping is bad now, imagine all the gankers joining in. I mean…FC/CCP love to tell us that things have consequences 🙂 ---
**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, 12:38pm 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/507206/1046 "2026-11-08T12:38:08Z")
> [@Murder\_Maid](#): > > Where will all the gankers go lowsec and use hound. Let see how they will cry again about it. I can imagine 1 ganker flying 20 bombers ---
**Author:** ![kage1982](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kage1982/32/516465_2.png) [@kage1982](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/kage1982)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 1:18pm 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/507206/1047 "2026-11-08T13:18:39Z")
Problem is most of them would get battered by the real PVP players in low sec ---
**Author:** ![Glenduil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/glenduil/32/517379_2.png) [@Glenduil](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Glenduil)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 2:46pm 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/507206/1048 "2026-11-08T14:46:12Z")
> [@Uta\_Asmai](#): > > THE DEVS have to protect everybody that does not WANT pvp from it instead of what you propose? The devs don’t have to do anything. It’s their game not yours. If they wanted to, they could take away all of your ships and ban you. They can do anything they want to do. ---
**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, 2:47pm 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/507206/1049 "2026-11-08T14:47:49Z")
Can you ask your dev friend if CCP will be adding the eyeroll emoji to the list of responses? ---
**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, 2:55pm 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/507206/1050 "2026-11-08T14:55:24Z")
`Eyeroll emoji usage permit available in a NES near you for only 1 trillion ISK or equivalent PLEX per year.` – FCCCP `#nopoors` 🧐 🤔 :psyccp: :ccpguard: ---
**Author:** ![Aeryn\_Maricadie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aeryn_maricadie/32/516971_2.png) [@Aeryn\_Maricadie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aeryn_Maricadie)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2026, 4:31pm 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/507206/1051 "2026-11-08T16:31:09Z")
lol they absolutely do not have to make this game like every other game, and should not. Being distinct is why it is successful. I recently came back to the game about a week ago and last night for the first time in playing this game on and off for over ten years was the first time one of my characters was ever ganked. By Aiko herself actually. The worst thing about it was realizing that I had essentially become a bot. I was doing all the things I know I shouldn’t have been doing because I got lazy, playing the game as if it were a single player game. Thing is people Like Aiko are entirely correct. This game is entirely pvp. Everything you do is in competition with other players. If they remove Ganking from the game they will break it because HS will become a completely safe haven removed from competition. This would completely destroy the risk/reward balance the game is based around. [Previous page](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.md?page=50) [Next page](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.md?page=52)