# Ganking, or rather the Right to Gank **URL:** \ **Category:** Crime & Punishment\ **Created:** [September 7, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-or-rather-the-right-to-gank/104482 "2018-09-07T13:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 156
**Author:** ![Ima\_Wreckyou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ima_wreckyou/32/235531_2.png) [@Ima\_Wreckyou](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ima_Wreckyou)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-or-rather-the-right-to-gank/104482/156 "2018-09-23T22:26:13Z")
They have stated it more than once publicly. Here is a post that sums it up quite nicely: > [@High Sec Ganking](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/high-sec-ganking/76219/167): > > I think one piece of information that we haven’t discussed to death over the last 3-4 years (unlike the rest, which has been discussed dozens of times over) is this analysis from CCP Quant: \_ …The most important variable deciding on whether you were still playing in month 4 was whether you got your ship destroyed by another player… \_ Really, the whole presentation is worth watching, to understand how seriously CCP record, backup, analyse and use data. CCP regard the first 3 months in th… I was just informing the carebear what CCP thinks about this topic and I can back that up. There is just no point in discussing this if you have nothing other than a feeling or some anecdotal evidence. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-or-rather-the-right-to-gank/104482)._