In honor of the coming month anniversary of this thread I will say absolutely ganking is good.
Ganking gives otherwise mundane and boring activities in high sec a hint of adventure and excitement. Mining and hauling goods around would be mind numbingly dull without it. The truth is high sec is already so safe and trivially easy. Ganking is necessary for the game to continue and survive. Ganking is the first introduction into PvP and should be the reason why the new bros learn basic skills of situational awareness. Players need ganking in the same way that kids need to occasionally get colds and scrapped knees to make them tough enough to thrive in a competitive world.
Where possible, carry with you a range of fittings for your ship…in your cargo hold…that you can easily stop in a station and swap to. That would include things like inertial stabilisers for faster align, if your route has some particularly dodgy systems you want to get through quickly. My ships often carry multiple fittings. It’s one of those ’ gosh…why didn’t I think of that’ type things once you start doing it.
If you are in a combat ship, pre-heat your weapons in highsec the minute you enter a dodgy system. If you encounter gankers you’re not gonna have time to worry about burning out your weapons.
Although some systems such as Uedama are unavoidable, others ( 0.5 Balle for example ) are entirely avoidable and if it shows up on your route you can simply click the little yellow icon and select ‘avoid’ and a new set of systems come up. In fact using this you can get all the way from Amarr to Uedama with just one 0.5 system ( hint…you go via Sarum Prime ).
They destroyed my ship using dark arts against Concord.
They called me “miner” and for some reason I did not like it.
My orca was destroyed by a bunch of cheap catalyst.
They had -10 security status “for the luls”
They did it for fun and griefing, not for isk!
Then I got invited into a channel.
They offered me a mining permit.
I got angry and insulted them (and their families…).
Because nothing was left in my wallet.
Or thats what i told to them.
I uninstalled the game in shame.
They called it victory!
Please @CCP_Swift you have to solve the Ganking Problem! You know that they forced me to become salty and mad! It is not my fault! Can someone reimburse me please it is not faaaaaaaaaaaair
Dark Arts really requires it’s own blog page wouldn’t you say to include actual New Eden related actions as not all gankers are like that outside of EveOnline.
Lol. It’s amazing how many people don’t realize that the time to make a move for a gate is when all the gankers are flashing red. The flashing red means they are still criminal from a prior attack and cannot even undock without being Concorded ( though this very thing is often used to pull Concord ). It’s not that they can’t form a fleet and attack you during that stage, but that if they’ve pulled Concord to a station they’ll be blapped the minute they leave it, and if they’ve just ganked at the gate you want to go through then Concord will still be there and blap them immediately. That’s the time to make a dash for it.
I often see ’ gankers flashing red’ intel reports…as if that was the danger time. But it isn’t…if gankers are in the system that’s the least dangerous time.
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Posted a couple of my more interesting loss mails,
lost my jackdaw to a thrasher and
lost my confessor to a skiff,
Both in low sec. And had this expectation that I’m supposed to be embarrassed by this because… I wrap my identity up in my EvE online performance? I donno.
Then when he failed to troll me there he went on to make this really bizarre claim that those losses drove me to high sec ganking because “I suck at it.”
But both those losses occurred more than a year and a half later after I left my high sec ganking career (or at least where I made highsec ganking the main activity)
It was an absolute logical mess. Just vitriolic nonsense to flame, troll and try to shut the thread down.
But Drew was on top of it pretty quick! Thank you again mate!
