As it should be. No one is above being ganked. You can always gank the gankers.
You know what you should do? You should go into rookie help in game and tell the newbros how to make safes. Buy an atron or condor or slasher, speed fit that thing and go around making some BMs man.
Make deep safes, more than 14 AU away from any celestial
Make scanning safes for gates and belts, so you can peek in there with d-scan
Make insta dock BMs
Make BMs where you can still see the gate, but so far away you can warp away in more than enough time
Add all the big ganking alliances/corps/members to red standings. Study zkills to learn their haunts. Use DOTLAN and F10 to find quieter systems.
Watch local and d-scan, learn the ganking ships, learn the scanner fits, learn that even a venture can come along and do some work
Now I know youâre gonna say, bUt iT tAkEs sO mUcH tImE.
Welp. You wanna spend time making BMs thatâll save your life or you wanna spend time grinding ISK for the ship you lost cause you didnât wanna take the precautions?
You do realize that there is no need for you right? Any freighter pilot that doesnât use an untargetable sub second align hecate with 3 webbers is just being lazy right?
It is absolute statements like that which Ganker aligned players come out with that make me laugh big time. The Hecate will have to get close enough to the freighter to apply those unbonused webs which makes any mention of its own fast align time rather silly, as in meaningless. But more important the sensor boosted tackle cruiser will have the freighter well and truly pointed within the three to five seconds that the Freighter will still be there. I used to use twin faction webs on a bonuses Loki, so yeahâŚ
The lazyness is in fact posting without any thought on the subject.
Yes that was my point that CCP has this in plans and despite they removed it for now (at least claimed to do so) due to the backlash, this is the road we are heading towards just will take a more subtle path (meaning they will wait until nobody cares anymore and re-implement it).
It is the exact same trick companies use to make their gambling lootbox mechanics legal by implementing a barrier in the form of one or even several layers of currency to can claim players are not buying random lootbox content directly thus not gambling they just buy in-game currency that they spend on whatever they choose to. Which we all know is just a made up excuse not to directly purchase the random content which would be direct gambling in exchange for real life CA$H.
Same here, they might be using PLEX as a mediator but it is clear to see they are as directly selling things for $$$ as possible under the current situation and aim to do more in the future is the trend over time as we can witness ourselves.
On a side note I think having Aiko indirectly admit that it is not balanced was kinda fun, I would rather it was not like this. But I think it has been like this since I started playing as Dracvlad, it is just a little bit more obvious.
It often seems that people think of balance as an equal chance. Like if the mechanics for predators were on one side of a set of scales and the mechanics for prey were on the other, theyâd somehow be equally balanced, even with little or no effort.
That isnât what balance is at all. In game design, itâs adjusting the settings to provide the experience that the game designers want players to be able to experience, and often it means that the players need to be actively using the mechanics, in order to have that experience.
Too many people want to be able to autopilot or blindly solo from Amarr to Jita and still have a chance of survival if they get engaged. They only want âthe other guysâ to have to be actively using all of the mechanics. Not them personally.
Luckily, that isnât the balance that CCP wants the players to have.
Whatâs funny is you use all these hypotheticals cause you arenât ever yennoe, in Uedama and actually witness what happens
All you got is theorycraft my man.
It is balanced. Most of these peeps being ganked have terrible ship fits. They practically gank themselves. And its nice you admit youâre Rroff So she got you to re-sub and stop using Rroff. Sheesh.
That is because it had no relevance at all to what I was talking about, or anything at all for that matter, and my exchange was with another player who I happen to respect. Begone knave.
The miner only has to lose vigilance for a few secondsâŚwhile the ganker has all the time in the world to look for prey. It most definitely is unbalanced, and is precisely why there are more wildebeast than lions.
Though personally I would not take the Darwinian comparison too farâŚas some gankers like to do. Real lions, hyenas, etc, will starve to death if they donât make a catch. Eveâs version are not really predators in the true sense. They can effectively turn from lions into wildebeast if starvation ever arises. Gankers are not predators but parasitesâŚmore akin to a leech than a lion.
No, that isnât the imbalance issue. Itâs nothing to do with a âfair fightâ in terms of weapons, armour, shields, etc. The predator in Eve can always outdo the prey, if needed. The imbalance is one of time.
The miner has to be vigilant literally every second they are undocked. They cannot go off and make a coffee, read their emails, make a phone call, or even go for a wee. They are constantly refreshing D Scan, keeping an eye on Local, and so on.
The ganker has all the time in the world. Iâve watched a video of a solo ganker who scans ships for cargo, etc. He misses a few big kills ( largely because he is doing the video and explaining )âŚbut he doesnât have to wait long for another chance. He can go off and make a coffee, read his emails, etc, etc, because he really doesnât have to be vigilant 100% of the time.
And that is the huge imbalance. I see gankers mocking and deriding miners and haulers who donât pay attentionâŚbut the irony is that gankers themselves donât have to pay attention 100% of the time. That is the very nature of opportunistic attack.
Wow thatâs completely disgusting to read, I guess CCP execs can not restrain themselves from the worst practices in the games industry⌠what a shame.
