It happened at the entrance of the Highsec Carebear Event. These are the details:
It was 1vs1 (probably the first 1vs1 gank against a marauder?).
The miner was able to shoot back in his paladin.
The miner was not AFK.
The miner was not suspect.
It was a gank.
I believe this example is enough to confirm that Ganking is among the most honorable and most Elite PVP out there.
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Iâm gonna assume the marauder pilot was an idiot. Because with bastion mode on, he could permatank that talos and would also do 3x the DPS of him, with dual webs.
Maybe we need to ask to see the chatlog to understand the picture fully.
I am going to guess that the pilot was spooked in some way like a spike in local chat were a simple comment about buddies are on their way to help, potentially making the pilot drop out of bastion to try and run.
Each of us must gank for our own reasons. In my opinion, the most honorable form of Eve gameplay is enforcing The Code, which was brought to us by savior, James 315.
Other people gank for money or gank for the explosions. Some even gank because of a deep seated hatred of bot-aspirant, Mammon-worshiping, resource-stripping highsec miners.
So long as the ganker is being true to their own inner voice, nothing could be more honorable.
Perhaps the more important question would be: in highsec, is there any activity that is more honorable than ganking?
Anti-ganking or moreso- WHORING on killmails and claiming it to be PVP - is by far the least honorable form of PVP. Shooting at ships destined to die - unless ofc you are attacked by a bully who is going after a humble astero doing a mining mission with smartbombs then sir, you are not AG - you are elite!
I had someone get quite salty today over the loss of their 28m ISK Retriever. The 'youâve ruined my entire life â routine. I felt the tiniest twinge of being badâŚ
âŚbut almost immediately that was replaced by wondering how anyone can get so enraged over losing 35p worth of ship.
Likewise I hear talk of âpoor, defenceless, shipsâ. But any ship is âdefencelessâ when overwhelmed. Like this exampleâŚwhich ended in âgood fightâ despite the fact it was the second ship I lost to them in half an hourâŚ
Honourable is when you let the enemy have their victory and the enjoyment of it. It is crucial to all games.
Nothing like some 46-year-old railing about how he will ârape your mother to deathâ for âgriefing himâ after you shoot him and he loses some basic starter gun and 2 cans of food that he looted out of a house a minute after spawning.
