I added my edit before you made this post, I saw you typing and knew what you were going to say, obvious is obvious.
I said this would happen in the very first thread where they announced the feature. This is not on CCP only. Many players read that comment and where fine with those consequences because they thought the whole thing would benefit them personally. Including you I guess.
Oh, but the SP excuse no longer counts, because they can p2w their SP right up to my level. They just have to pay my subscription by purchasing those juicy injectors from me.
I’m not hiding behind alts and people did pay PIRAT, Marmites and Vendetta to come after me. But you are right, that is no longer possible. Weren’t you the one heavily pushing for that change?
I don’t fly a Cat with this character though. I mostly use expensive ships and I even have some expensive implants in my head. Better ag than you tried to come after me and failed.
Let’s be honest here, you would only shoot the loot scooper if you had any chance at taking him out without any risk to you. I don’t use a DST and I don’t loot in a corvette.
Since ag supposedly provides the consequences for ganking I totally agree 
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If you knew what I was going to say then you would think you would have answered the question…but of course you didn’t…
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Never used or farmed them.
Never used of farmed them.
What I said is that I don’t think it is a good idea for newbie players to war dec you, they are going to get their asses well and truly kicked. I said that this is like war decking PIRAT to get back at war deckers…
I thought it was obvious?
In terms of the changes in the war dec system, I asked for CCP to allow a max of five war decs without having to have a War HQ structure. So tell me this again. So let me repeat it as you often miss details like this, as far as I am concerned this change is a lot better then before, but if it had allowed five war decs without a war HQ I would be even happier.
With the changes to moon mining, your target pool is going to seriously dry up, kinda funny actually.
I operate mainly in Caldari and Amarr space, you operate mainly in Mimmatar and Gallente space, though at times Amarr space, you move around a lot so I assume that you move when people get wise to you. Knowledgeminer is quite welcome to continue to fail going after you.
I have blown up loot scoopers a number of times, my kills are not on Zkill by the way. And there is always risk when you are going after people with large multi-boxed fleets.
CONCORD does, jokes on you mate
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I did, you just don’t have the wit to enjoy my joke at your expense, I know you would come out with something like why are you here. You are such an obvious one.
That I run around in the game taking the odd shot at gankers with absolute impunity as you are all so lame is all I need to do.
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So just insults…lol…typical.
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Highsec mining used to be down because it could not compete even remotely with the Rorq farms of nullsec. I expect it to increase again because of the scarcity. Mining permits are still required though.
That used to be the case two years ago. I operate from w-space actually so I’m all over the map now. You can now nerf the NPC highsec stations btw, one could say I have pre-adapted.
You mean I would not be immune at all to wardecs?
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Of course, my suggestion is not the system implemented by CCP. You said that this is the system that I called for, no it is not quite the system I called for, my system had a CONCORD office in a citadel for more than 5 war decs. It was designed to make it more dangerous for mass war deckers which in my opinion was having a very negative impact on the game. Your type of war dec and Runa’s type of war dec are totally fine. You are going directly at the people and to me that is good game play for both sides. The problem with CCP is that they make changes to remove the bad but they never take care to cater for the good.
Of course to people like you I am against war decs and against ganking. I am perfectly fine with ganking, but I am looking more at the two sides of the conflict to develop the engaging play, not easy mode shite. I have noticed some of your lot now going off on my balance based on making it more of a challenge, I take that as fear of having to actually be good at the game.
My critic of the value of going after gankers is more to the new player who realise it is fruitless and makes no difference at least to him, but players like me don’t see that. For example there is a guy who ganks PvE ships near me. I see his main gank squad go out, but often he does not have enough so he brings in more and I have intercepted a few of them, thus stopping him from ganking. So I know how to have a bigger effect by removing a T1 fitted destroyer. It is all based on timing.
But I will say one thing, you do seem to be rather good at this game but most of that is very selective targeting at people you can beat. And why not. Personally I find it rather amusing that Knowledgeminer failed against you and he acknowledged that you are a better player than him.
We can continue to dance this forum war, you can continue to yell things like this is my war dec system and that I want to end all ganking, and I will just snigger at you.
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Well when you post like you do, that is what you should expect and all that your posts are worth. Get better and things might change.
Fair enough. I wasn’t really talking about me wardecing others, but getting wardeced in that instance though.
Fighting the battles you can win is a pretty good strategy. I don’t always win though. People often let me get away with stuff because they are cowards and if they would respond correctly or if the wrong people show up in the wrong moment I would die instantly.
He was surprised, something that will not be repeatable. He is a very decent player and I would not say that I’m better than he is.
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In your own words.
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And my system would allow that.
I actually had a good long look at you a while back, and to be blunt there is little value in me going after you. You range all over the place, so taking you by surprise is hard, you MTU bait, which is again very selective because most people don’t pack points so if you start losing off you go. If you saw my main or one of my alts in local would you go for it? Maybe maybe not, most times people don’t. I think you have baiting down to a fine art.
I did not take the time to work out your ganking alts previously, though I do now believe that you are also the player that runs Ima Wreckyou and your other alt is Alyth Nerun. I had looked at the ganks you did and they are all over the place as I said above, and that makes it very difficult to interdict. You also gank poorly tanked mining ships. As an AG player my view on you is simply not worth my effort to waste time on trying to stop because I would be utterly ineffectual as you can just move to other systems or regions.
He is pretty relentless and very focussed which makes him ideal for hunting at least in key spots. How effective he is, is debatable, same can be said of me.
The key thing is that most of the time prevented ganks don’t get noted. For example I baited someone to try to gank me in a heavily tanked ship, two of the Thrashers ended up with KM’s (not from me) the third did not, and the other five are not noted at all, but all eight died for no loss. That is AG at its finest…, and yet I am bad at this game 
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You are just attacking Lucas Kell because you cannot refute his arguments.
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You are allying yourself with him because he seems to be against ganking. Except that he claims to be an elite ganker… Basically he just claims to be elite at everything.
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I agree with much of what he says, though I have disagreed on some things, he is also refreshingly honest, and he has never claimed to be elite , just effective at this game. What’s not to like, in fact part of me would not mind getting to work with him a bit.
Let me give you the type of argument from your side of the fence, one Australian Excellence, he went off on bumping, he told me that it was not as easy as I was making it out and that I could not do it as well as him, he made a big thing about it, however my view was the simple fact that bumping enabled too much control of the battlefield in terms of time and place and that was the issue, his argument was totally irrelevant and yet he seems to think it was. At this point it works, freighter gankers have to be ready to go otherwise they risk losing their prey. I am now fine with it. And you have the cheek to tell me I am allying with Lucas when I agree with him?
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I asked you a legit question and all you do is insult…how about you grow up, grow a pair and answer the question. Why would I get better when you can’t even answer a simple question? Anything harder and you might stroke-out it seems…
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It was a meaningless question.
Yes yes…you backed yourself into a corner and now you can’t get out. So you pout and call the question meaningless…
Pathetic…
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Then you are demonstrating your ignorance of the game. From the point of view of a smart industry player ganking is great. Every suicide gank lets me sell new ships to the gank players and a new ship to their target. If I’m lucky the target even ragequits, removing competition from the market and increasing the prices for the stuff I produce. And because I am a smart industry player the risk to me is negligible, far less than the reward of market demand.
Ganking should always be part of the game but it should not be ludicrously cheap, easy and risk free like it currently is.
Ganking is only “risk free” and “cheap” because idiot farmer trash offers up easy targets with excessive loot value and poor HP. If people stopped flying easy kills and used the available strategies for avoiding ganks it would become minimally profitable at best and only the most stubborn gankers would throw money away on doing it.
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Oh look, now you’re demonstrating your ignorance of how the economy works. Production and resources are mostly interchangeable in EVE. If production capacity and minerals are devoted to building one particular ship that means less production capacity is devoted to other things, therefore prices for those things will rise. All that really matters here is total production vs. total demand, if you simultaneously destroy production and increase demand then the producers who haven’t been attacked (because they are smart industrial players, not farmer trash) profit from it.
If it’s a miner all it does is increase your mineral costs and remove a potential customer from the game.
Great, so all of the minerals I mine now have more value.
As I keep saying, smart players take advantage of suicide ganking and profit. Stupid farmer trash whines on the forums and tries to devalue its own production.
Wrong. It’s risk-free and cheap because it’s an emergent behaviour that’s never been properly balanced and minmaxing has refined it down.
Nope, not at all. Suicide ganking only has very low risk and cost because idiots fly easy gank targets AFK into popular ganking systems. If you are smart then ganking you becomes a very expensive and high-risk activity. The gankers have to spend a bunch of ISK to make the attack, and they are gambling on the very low chance that RNG gives an above-average loot drop. Otherwise they just throw away ISK and get nothing in return. And if you’re cautious enough you can even drop the chances of profit down to literally zero.
And of course I talk about it in terms of profit because that’s the only form of ganking that can have its balance adjusted or discussed in any meaningful way. If someone is willing to throw away ISK to gank you at a loss just because they want a kill that badly then of course you are 100% guaranteed to die. Why should you have any chance of survival against 50v1 odds?
The fact that an alpha character with minimal training can already jump into it and be immediately effective shows how low the bar is.
Only because idiots fly easy gank targets that an alpha character can successfully engage.
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