# Understanding and Dealing with Ganks and Gankers **URL:** \ **Category:** Crime & Punishment\ **Created:** [July 17, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/understanding-and-dealing-with-ganks-and-gankers/320273 "2021-07-17T17:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**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:** [July 17, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/understanding-and-dealing-with-ganks-and-gankers/320273/9 "2021-07-17T20:06:57Z")
Some gank do’s and don’ts: Do: - ask the person who ganked you what you could have done better, if you don’t understand what happened. (In case ganker isn’t helpful - ignore and move on. Some may have good tips though!) Don’t: - react angry or mad - even if you are, keep it to yourself. Don’t ‘reward’ them with your angry mails or local chat, they _like_ it when you do that Do: - ask yourself what you could have done differently to avoid what happened. Did you haul a lot of value? Did you not respond when that catalyst warped to your belt? Learn from it and do better next time! Don’t: - do the exact same thing again in a bigger more expensive ship. It won’t save you and they will bring enough ships to destroy your bigger ship too. Do: - try ganking for yourself (on another character) - even if you don’t enjoy it it may give you insight into the thoughts behind the ganking process that may save you from getting ganked in the future Don’t: - ask for ganking to be removed/nerfed. Risk in all of EVE is part of the game and high sec ganks are easily avoided if you know how to. Do: - make insta-dock and insta-undock bookmarks in popular tradehubs and use autopilot to immediately dock once you arrive at that bookmark. Don’t: - use autopilot anywhere else. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/understanding-and-dealing-with-ganks-and-gankers/320273)._