Shooting player’s spaceships in EvE is not toxic behavior

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I am not asking people to not act emotionally to spaceship combat. I am asking people to acknowledge that the game revolves around spaceship combat, it is the core mechanic of the game.

It is to be expected that people are going to shoot your spaceship. People using core mechanic of the game, in game, is not toxic behavior, but is EvE working as expected. Calling the behavior that the game is designed around “toxic” and demanding that the behavior be penalized to the point that it is almost impossible destroys the game of EvE.

I am not asking that people be happy about having their spaceship blown up. I am asking that people recognize that it is going to happen.

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I was playing chess the other day and one of my pawns got taken. This clearly amounts to theft and harassment. And they moved their pieces into my side of the board…which is trespass. In mean, what kind of a toxic game is it where I can’t just look at all 16 of my pieces for 2 hours and get a ’ you won chess ’ medal at the end ? I was so disturbed by this that I’m now seeing a hypnotic regression therapist.

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There is a wide range of PvP. Ganking is toxic. There are so many players that want to engage in acceptable PvP. Yet, you choose to shoot Ventures. I think it speaks volumes about your character.

#ENDHSGANKING

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Miners get attacked by pirate NPCs in asteroid belts on a constant basis, in a manner no different to ganking. An alt of mine even lost a ship to 8 NPC pirates with warp scram…in highsec. No different to gankers. And yet in all my time on these forums I have never once…ever…seen a call for ganking by pirate NPCs to be banned. Why is that ?

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LOL

Have you ever heard of, or seen a Marauder destroyed on a gate (in HS) by NPC’s?

I’ll wait.

#NOTTHESAME

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You kinda jumped from Ventures to Marauders pretty fast there.

If you look at Safety. 's kill board, you don’t see a majority of Ventures on there.

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I used Ventures as an example. I don’t think I need to list ALL ships that gankers shoot to make that example work.

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Since when was a 2bn ISK T2 battleship with bastion mode not a valid PvP target anywhere in Eve ?

You are evading the fact that basic ships, miners, etc, get ‘ganked’ by pirates all the time. Being attacked by pirates is part of PvE in Eve. You have not explained why it should not also be part of PvP.

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You literally argue with yourself.

#GANKINGISBAD

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OK…so you can’t answer the question. Which effectively does answer it.

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I’ve answered that question multiple times. You’re either illiterate or too lazy to read them.

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Nope…and I now deem your posts a waste of forum space…

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:white_check_mark: Noted :white_check_mark:

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IMO
she digs you bruh

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Shooting someone else’s spaceship in Eve Online is very toxic, especially in High Sec. If you can’t manage your ISK, other than blowing up peaceful ships in High Sec, that is toxic behavior. If can you Skipjack into Null to raid ESS sites and don’t, but can only gank High Sec ships, that is toxic behavior.

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Any obstacle or semblance of competition or anything that makes me lose is of course obviously toxic.

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People should just say “you’re a winner” to me. And if they don’t, they obviously suffer from toxic behaviors.

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Why does CCP allow it?

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There are always players out there stupid enough to lose a ship in a ridiculous manner.

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The game is built around the concept of space battles. Is it toxic to capture your opponents pieces in chess?

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