I voted no. Though the philos question remains - when does a new player not become a new player.
Eve has a small learning curve (Iâm saying this in the scientifically accurate sense). Itâs hard to learn the basics. I didnât really start learning EVE until I became a part of COIM and could pick the brains of really experienced players.
I know the arguments about killing newbies is often linked to sociopathy and I argue the same. If you kill a weak target knowing youâll loose your asset - it doesnât do anyone any favors. I think shooting at newbies might be a good way to introduce them to EVE but why kill them. Or if youâre really that good why donât you kill them in a lesser ship than they are flying - or fly a beginner ship poorly outfitted.
This is a game - true. But I think people who pray on new players are playing sociopathic characters. How would you know they are new? or where do you draw the line? Everything in Null Sec seems a go. Low sec should likewise be a go. However, why would you blow up people who are no threat to you, are not doing anything to impede you or your development or arenât even worth your blowing them up.
Honestly - what are you going to do - scoop the recks of shuttles corvettes and frigates? I could see battling them in a corbette or frigate to actually challenge your bassic skills or prowess but that is combat for combats sake which is not primarily what killing newbies or ganking is about.
So gate camping in high sec to blow a industrial and have a buddy scoop the wreck. Why not. that makes sense to me. There is a benefit. industrial pilots should not be newbies.
It would be nice though it the pvp side of everything wasnât sorta like - if youâre in a ship - we kill ya and thatâs that.
Also, ganking miners? Yeah, thatâs fine. But to systematically target specific miners or clear out whole mining fleets by gank to control a system seems really strange to me. Sure you can control the system or get scoop the wrecks but it doesnât seem to be honorable - equivalently profitable or even difficult.
Maybe miners should be on their toes or if they arenât paying attention maybe they should die. But targeting venture pilots in normal space seems lame. Why? It makes no logistical sense or financial sense and unless you want to control mining rights to the system thereâs no real resource isk incentive for such behavior.
All in all, I donât know why anyone should shoot down corvettes frigates or ventures just for the hell of it. Obviously if they are wh or relic or data site mining or even combating a site you had tagged - sure - but why kill a guy trying to go from point a - b.
I think - one of the most important things you can provide in your controlled space is safety and travel to benign pilots. But you kill everything and that just makes all of space rediculously dangerous all of the time in counterintuitive ways. It doesnât mean EVE is like the real world. It means itâs like you get shot at or stabbed every time you leave your house to go to the grocery store even though your minding your own business.
I think people should have more tact. Maybe Iâm a crybearing baby. Or maybe one day Iâll make it my mission to hunt and kill people who hunt and kill benign targets. Who knows. Right now? I like to mine.