# Test server taken away so stop playing omega **URL:** \ **Category:** Test Server Feedback\ **Created:** [August 17, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906 "2025-08-17T13:41:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mark\_Matthew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mark_matthew/32/461531_2.png) [@Mark\_Matthew](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mark_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/21 "2025-09-30T10:28:07Z")
> [@Gerard\_Amatin](#): > > Practicing on the test server with zero consequences is about the most risk-averse a player can be. You mean, besides ganking? ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/22 "2025-09-30T11:03:47Z")
Ganking can fail, failed ganks still cost ISK. Therefore ganking has risk. Practicing on the test server costs nothing if you lose. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Matthew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mark_matthew/32/461531_2.png) [@Mark\_Matthew](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mark_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/24 "2025-10-03T14:07:32Z")
> [@Gerard\_Amatin](#): > > Therefore ganking has risk. I know you don’t believe that, but that’s never stopped you before. ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/25 "2025-10-03T14:11:47Z")
What happened to the childish reaction you had before? Did someone report it for spam or did you realize yourself emoticon spam was immature? I was tempted to do the former myself. Either way I have given a very simple solid argument why I think ganking has a risk and have not yet seen you even try to refute it. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Matthew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mark_matthew/32/461531_2.png) [@Mark\_Matthew](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mark_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/26 "2025-10-03T14:15:55Z")
> [@Gerard\_Amatin](#): > > What happened to the childish emoticon spam reaction you had before? Your friends removed it. > [@Ganking: High Reward, Almost Zero Risk – The Numbers Don’t Lie](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ganking-high-reward-almost-zero-risk-the-numbers-don-t-lie/498635): > > Disposable Ships, Trivial Losses “Always flying disposable ships” is practically the gankers’ motto[[1]](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-cost-of-suicide-ganking-is-too-low/40033#:~:text=I%20would%20love%20to%20go,so%20denied%20the%20potential%20for). Suicide gankers deliberately use cheap, throwaway vessels so that any loss barely even registers. In fact, you can’t inflict meaningful losses on them because their ships are dirt cheap and easily replaced[[1]](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-cost-of-suicide-ganking-is-too-low/40033#:~:text=I%20would%20love%20to%20go,so%20denied%20the%20potential%20for). Consider how they operate in practice: · Low-cost hulls: A typical gank-fit destroyer (like a Catalyst) costs only on the order of a few million ISK. For example, a CODE attacke… ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/27 "2025-10-03T14:20:44Z")
So if I read the linked chatgpt post correctly ganking ‘has no risk’ because gankers _manage their risk well_ by using cheap and easily replacable ships? You forgot to mention the risk of running into negative profits upon failing ganks by the way. But even _if_ ganking were to have low risk, how is that risk as low as trying things on the test server where there is _zero_ risk of losing value? I stand by what I said before, practicing on the test server is the most risk-averse a player can be. ---
**Author:** ![sci0gon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sci0gon/32/444155_2.png) [@sci0gon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/sci0gon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/28 "2025-11-23T22:10:38Z")
> [@Supreme\_clientele](#): > > Who used Sisi to gather Intel? And on what? Seems kinda silly. That’s because its probably not involving a playstyle that you’re involved in. In the past, I used to gather information on blueprints to identify the skills required, build requirements and of course the cost of the bpo’s and I wasn’t the only one doing it. In addition to this, people also identified changes made that CCP never reported like for example how certain T1 bpo’s were made into T2 bpo’s which allowed some people to take advantage of that and then there is their sneaky nerfs that were never mentioned in the update notes. That basically allowed people to adjust market prices on materials and stock up in preparation for the release of the update with those changes so that they could make a decent profit and was always seen as a good time to make some nice isk. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/test-server-taken-away-so-stop-playing-omega/495906/29 "2026-02-21T22:10:59Z")
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