Lately, I’ve been noticing a significant rise in large-scale ganking and high-volume war declarations across high-sec space. Fleets of suicide gankers seem to be hitting haulers, miners, and even casual traders in major trade routes and hubs—sometimes with no real financial gain, only to boost killboard stats.
On top of that, certain organizations are declaring war on hundreds of corporations and alliances simultaneously, taking down structures and stations that smaller, hard-working groups spent months building. These smaller corps often don’t have the numbers or resources to mount any real defense, and it can make high-sec life feel like a revolving door of losses instead of a place for newer or industrial-focused players to participate safely(to a degree).
I understand that EVE is a sandbox and conflict is part of the ecosystem, but I’m wondering if others feel the same shift recently—where destruction seems less about profit or strategy, and more about griefing for content’s sake.
Is this a normal cycle that EVE goes through every so often, or has something in the current mechanics encouraged this rise in high-sec aggression?
I’d genuinely like to hear others’ perspectives, especially from both sides of the fence—gankers, defenders, and industrialists alike.
I’m going more off what I have seen in my region over the recent weeks, I don’t really have in hard numbers. I have just seen a group going around war dec’ing ever single corporation and/or alliance in mass regardless of member numbers. Starting new wars at a rate of 20-30 a day it seems with active wars spanning over 50 + groups.
Might be just a group that’s war deccing a lot in your region in an attempt to get rid of competitors there?
Also mass war declarations are nothing new. Even as I joined my null sec alliance (Brave) 8 years ago newbies in our group were already warned not to fly in HS with our main characters as we were in a war 100% of the time.
This seems to have reduced a bit, I think I even had some war-less days in the past year, but I’m still used to always seeing something red top left of my screen
