# Is Hisec ganking good for the game?

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997 "2021-09-09T01:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kellie\_McCalamitie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kellie_mccalamitie/32/285447_2.png) [@Kellie\_McCalamitie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kellie_McCalamitie)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/591 "2021-09-29T14:35:35Z")

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**Author:** ![Pan\_Dora1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/pan_dora1/32/277067_2.png) [@Pan\_Dora1](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Pan_Dora1)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/592 "2021-09-29T15:10:01Z")

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Oh sarcasm! Thank you. How did you know I like it so much?  
I suppose i can try it too:

No, you are right, the guy that get him and his escort killed is _always better_ than the solo guy that arrive at this destination.

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**Author:** ![Kellie\_McCalamitie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kellie_mccalamitie/32/285447_2.png) [@Kellie\_McCalamitie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kellie_McCalamitie)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/593 "2021-09-29T16:06:00Z")

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**Author:** ![Rroff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rroff/32/509119_2.png) [@Rroff](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rroff)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/594 "2021-09-29T18:09:20Z")

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> [@Dracvlad](#):
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> It does rather amaze me that so many alliances leave this costly and important role to a single player who often is a weak link. One reason is perhaps that often they do multiple smallish purchase contracts for their members, so while it is a large amount in terms of ISK it is often spread around a lot of people and is not something that would cause an issue, but that was before CCP pushed scarcity.

Aside from people being lazy one of the problems there is you often get a small number or just 1 person who sets themselves up in the role - usually someone who is fairly high up/founding member and it kind of becomes their turf so to speak - they often end up getting resentful that other people don’t pull their weight while the other people often find it difficult to get involved.

> [@Gerard\_Amatin](#):
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> Hypothetically: what if we increase the dangers of hauling?

I don’t see a problem with increasing the dangers of hauling but it shouldn’t be a one way road - one of the problems with Eve is that it is far too easy to high-sec gank without consequences.

I always used to assume it was a hostile environment and anything of any value haul in a Prowler(s) - something which isn’t readily accessible to a new player. Though that doesn’t help if you want to transport a bunch of ships in one go but then you always had the jump freighter to work around that.

People talk about escorts but in high-sec that is largely useless unless you are at war, etc. with the gankers, it is a drop in the ocean vs a swarm of destroyers and useless against stuff like Tornados.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/595 "2021-09-29T19:10:13Z")

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Get alts. (Optional)

Get ships.

Break cargo into loads for ships.

Run multiple ships through.

Simples

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**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:** [September 29, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/596 "2021-09-29T19:51:00Z")

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> [@Dracvlad](#):
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> there is no ISK in it even for one person

There’s no isk in Highseck hauling, for two reasons:

1. other players don’t value it, and don’t care
2. lots of people do it for trivial amounts of isk

This is pure market economics.

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**Author:** ![Anthony\_FatTony\_Amico](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anthony_fattony_amico/32/391106_2.png) [@Anthony\_FatTony\_Amico](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anthony_FatTony_Amico)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/597 "2021-09-29T20:24:32Z")

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Hauling is at it’s lowest due to freighter prices… Crazy people want to be freighter haulers. Some people enjoy it I guess

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**Author:** ![Gix\_Firebrand](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gix_firebrand/32/456949_2.png) [@Gix\_Firebrand](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gix_Firebrand)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/598 "2021-09-29T20:47:27Z")

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Funny how people keep offering solutions/tactics and people’s excuse for not using them is “CCP caters to gankers”. Or maybe, just maybe by not using said tactics, you are catering to the gankers?

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**Author:** ![Tarsas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tarsas/32/289693_2.png) [@Tarsas](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tarsas)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/599 "2021-09-29T20:53:10Z")

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I agree; just pay attention, I dodged many camps just by paying attention.

Otherwise, PoP.

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**Author:** ![Dracvlad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dracvlad/32/444126_2.png) [@Dracvlad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dracvlad)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/600 "2021-09-30T06:10:25Z")

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> [@Rroff](#):
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> Aside from people being lazy one of the problems there is you often get a small number or just 1 person who sets themselves up in the role - usually someone who is fairly high up/founding member and it kind of becomes their turf so to speak - they often end up getting resentful that other people don’t pull their weight while the other people often find it difficult to get involved.

I agree to both comments, for nullsec the most important being the JF and alt to do the cyno’s.

> [@Rroff](#):
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> People talk about escorts but in high-sec that is largely useless unless you are at war, etc. with the gankers, it is a drop in the ocean vs a swarm of destroyers and useless against stuff like Tornados.

This is the issue, it has been improved a little by the ending of unlimited bumping, so winning the DPS vs tank race may enable you to get away but it is rather trivial to re-set the bump timer with a suicide Ibis for example.

> [@Ramona\_McCandless](#):
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> Break cargo into loads for ships.

You cannot do that with courier contracts.

> [@Aiko\_Danuja](#):
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> There’s no isk in Highseck hauling, for two reasons:
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> 1. other players don’t value it, and don’t care
> 2. lots of people do it for trivial amounts of isk
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> This is pure market economics.

You missed a third reason, people can do it for themselves if the cost is too high. But I am glad you agreed with me for once.

> [@Gix\_Firebrand](#):
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> Funny how people keep offering solutions/tactics and people’s excuse for not using them is “CCP caters to gankers”. Or maybe, just maybe by not using said tactics, you are catering to the gankers?

People should make it more difficult for gankers within the game, still it is not a trivial thing to organise, whereas a ganker can log on all his accounts and get to it, not so much for the escorts. Excessive multi-boxing will always be an issue.

> [@Tarsas](#):
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> I agree; just pay attention, I dodged many camps just by paying attention.
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> Otherwise, PoP.

However as I was focussing on solo hisec haulers as the issue more than anything else it is not quite as easy as that, at least for them.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/601 "2021-09-30T06:13:51Z")

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> [@Dracvlad](#):
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> You cannot do that with courier contracts.

Im talking about hauling where you dont get scammed and the reward is relatively reasonable.

But its annoying that instead of agreeing with any of the various ways to avoid loss I or anyone else mentioned, you pick something to pry at as a flaw because it wont work in a specific circumstance.

Oh wait, then you argue both sides of the subject at once to try and score internet points over bad people.

> [@Dracvlad](#):
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> You missed a third reason, people can do it for themselves if the cost is too high.

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**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:** [September 30, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/602 "2021-09-30T06:28:26Z")

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> [@Dracvlad](#):
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> I am glad you agreed with me for once.

Of course Dracvlad. James 315 spent a decade telling you plebs that you are fools to stake your financial future upon Highsec.

The game is not designed to incentive low-risk gameplay.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/603 "2021-09-30T06:36:16Z")

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> [@Aiko\_Danuja](#):
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> The game is not designed to incentive low-risk gameplay.

So whats this Null I keep hearing about

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**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:** [September 30, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/604 "2021-09-30T06:38:06Z")

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Go there. Find out.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/605 "2021-09-30T06:39:24Z")

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All I found was a wasteland with another Hisec at the end if it full of dweebs who wouldnt let me join.

And filthy krabs.

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**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:** [September 30, 2021, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/606 "2021-09-30T06:44:08Z")

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Maybe you should help clean it up?

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/607 "2021-09-30T06:49:25Z")

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I would but my frieghter is so defenseless and my hands are broken so I cant fly any other ship.

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**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:** [September 30, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/608 "2021-09-30T06:49:51Z")

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Well, that’s your fault.

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**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/609 "2021-09-30T06:50:56Z")

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It is. Im sorry. When they heal, I promise to cause some trouble somewhere somehow.

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**Author:** ![Dracvlad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dracvlad/32/444126_2.png) [@Dracvlad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dracvlad)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-hisec-ganking-good-for-the-game/326997/610 "2021-09-30T08:01:07Z")

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I thought it was quite clear that my focus was looking at this from the point of view of solo hisec hauler players doing courier contracts. So I was merely reminding you that the most important part of your suggestion was not possible and it negates what you posted.

That you get annoyed and blame me is your issue not mine.

Also in terms of that third point I raised with Aiko, it is an important factor is it not and has nothing to do with internet points or whatever forum wars you have decided to get into.

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