# Player Harassmemt, by bumping **URL:** \ **Category:** Crime & Punishment\ **Created:** [March 9, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/player-harassmemt-by-bumping/144980 "2019-03-09T20:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 260
**Author:** ![Scipio\_Artelius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scipio_artelius/32/408264_2.png) [@Scipio\_Artelius](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scipio_Artelius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/player-harassmemt-by-bumping/144980/260 "2019-04-03T04:59:23Z")
> [@Salt\_Foambreaker](#): > > Those newbies with freighters? Yeah, echo that and Black Pedro’s post above. Not intending to push one of my own posts, because what I write isn’t all that particularly interesting, however for this issue of whether bumping is really a discouragement for new players, it’s only really effective against the larger ships that aren’t really flown by new players. The analysis below last year looked at 2 years of Freighter/Bowhead/Orca ganking and found that it’s mostly vets that fly these ships: > [@Burn Jita!](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/burn-jita/60736/18): > > Burn Jita targets freighters, Bowheads and Orcas. They aren’t typically new player ships. However, it’s often claimed that this type of ganking is vets targetting new players, so I just went and grabbed the last 6000 highsec killmails (1000 each for Obelisk, Charon, Fenrir, Providence, Bowhead and Orca) and checked the ages of the characters. The data goes back to January 2016, so it covers the last 2 and a bit years completely. Here’s the averages: Summary Average Age (Days) 1749.… New players are not really affected by bumping. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/player-harassmemt-by-bumping/144980)._