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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 18:20:00 -
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This is not a rant about CODE or other similar suicide gankers. Although I do not (usually) participate in that particular style of gameplay and I can understand why some people would consider it a form of griefing, I think it's perfectly valid and in some ways even useful. They've unified a group of people behind a cause and are proving to be very effective at implementing it. I call that a success story.
I say kudos to them.
No, this post is about the people ranting about suicide gankers. For all the uproar you read here and see in local, you'd figure that someone would have organized a movement against CODE by now to slow down their wave of suicide ganks. Unless said movement is very quiet about their actions, I've seen no sign of it's existence. This could be partly because the most basic counters to a CODE-esque gank are best carried out by individual pilots, not organizations:
Don't autopilot. Don't make yourself an expensive target by: Hauling goods worth more than it would cost to gank you. Flying expensive ships with paper-thin tanks without proper support.
People could go beyond these basic measures, yet few, if any do. Why haven't all these people complaining about suicide ganks banded together and:
Started flying cheap ECM fleets to jam gankers? Started flying cheap logistics fleets to rep miners/haulers? Scanning down gank fleets and pre-emptively ganking them?
I am not the person to organize such a movement; I have neither the time nor the inclination. But I do think it would be interesting to see it happen and I'd love to watch it in action.
If you really don't like the impact that suicide gankers are having on your gameplay, try standing up and doing something about it instead of complaining that they ganked your expensive ship.
This is EvE. You are never safe here. Get used to it and take steps to protect yourself.
Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
I don't avoid getting shot, but I do generally avoid getting shot first. |
Kaarous Aldurald
ROC Deep Space The ROC
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Posted - 2014.06.16 18:29:00 -
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There have been several. Past tense.
They've all died or capitulated, because as it turns out, if you have a spine and you can actually play the game worth a damn you aren't the kind of player who has such an issue with CODE.
They don't actually want to do anything about what they cry about so loudly. They just hope that if they cry loud enough that CCP will change the rules in their favor. (again) "Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
Psychotic Monk for CSM9. |
Pepper en Daire
Summer Tramp Initiative
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Posted - 2014.06.16 18:31:00 -
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Here is the funniest one: http://gankerbumping.blogspot.co.uk/ |
Alternative Splicing
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
60
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Posted - 2014.06.16 18:32:00 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:If you really don't like the impact that suicide gankers are having on your gameplay, try standing up and doing something about it instead of complaining that they ganked your expensive ship.
This is EvE. You are never safe here. Get used to it and take steps to protect yourself.
Ha ha!
Exactly. However, what you may be overlooking is that the vast majority of people living in hisec are either afraid to organize, or cats which can't be herded. It takes planning, organization, communication, and a common goal to get the consistent numbers to do real big ganks. You aren't going to be able to get the majority of hisec 'cats' to polarize around something, or defend what they take for granted if it doesn't affect them right now. All you have is a few scattered people who parade around, acting as if they had slain the dragon, showing off their CONCORD granted KMs on gankers, while the town is burnt to cinders and the beast is growing two new heads in place of the one CONCORD shot off. There are reasons why they are in hisec, and those reasons are essentially what ensures a resistance movement will never occur.
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Haedonism Bot
Revolutionary Front
1259
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Posted - 2014.06.16 19:19:00 -
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The main reason that every anti-Code movement fails before it gets off the ground is because all of them, to date, are based on a sense of entitlement, and a hatred of players who they perceive as being bad people in real life. By contrast, the New Order is based on fun video game content. You aren't going to attract and retain a group of gamers if your cause isn't fun. I always figured that the only way that an anti-New Order movement could have a chance of persisting is if they embrace the same tactics that the New Order uses - ganking, AWOXing, etc. The
Even then, the odds are slim that they could ever match the New Order at that game. The special genius that James 315 has is that he keeps this fun every day, even after all this time. That's why you see so many people who start out fighting us end up on our side. www.everevolutionaryfront.blogspot.com
Psychotic Monk for CSM9 |
Radric Davids
Fweddit I Whip My Slaves Back and Forth
59
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Posted - 2014.06.16 19:42:00 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:
Started flying cheap ECM fleets to jam gankers? Started flying cheap logistics fleets to rep miners/haulers? Scanning down gank fleets and pre-emptively ganking them?
None of those activities offer the faintest modicum of fun or reward. However, during the CODE ganking op last night (code+miniluv) there were probably 20-30 white knights trying to jam/pop pods/kill us during our ganks. Most of those who tried ended up getting killed+podded after the freighters, or hung out further away doing nothing.
Ganking is fun, exciting and rewarding. Avoiding it is easy if you have a brain.
White knighting is boring and has no reward or excitement. Nobody with a brain or any pvp skills would rationally partake in such behavior (high sec wardeccers might, its about as fun as camping the jita undock but not quite. hence why I said anyone with a brain/pvp skills |
Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 19:46:00 -
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Haedonism Bot wrote:The main reason that every anti-Code movement fails before it gets off the ground is because all of them, to date, are based on a sense of entitlement, and a hatred of players who they perceive as being bad people in real life. By contrast, the New Order is based on fun video game content. You aren't going to attract and retain a group of gamers if your cause isn't fun. I always figured that the only way that an anti-New Order movement could have a chance of persisting is if they embrace the same tactics that the New Order uses - ganking, AWOXing, etc. The
Even then, the odds are slim that they could ever match the New Order at that game. The special genius that James 315 has is that he keeps this fun every day, even after all this time. That's why you see so many people who start out fighting us end up on our side.
Interesting. I totally get what you're saying about entitlement, that's one of the underlying roots of most good whiny rants.
Given how paper-thin gank-fit ships are, I'm surprised that more people haven't tried stepping up to gank the gankers. If not to protect miners/haulers out of s sense of entitlement, then just for the entertainment value. Kind of a Red vs Blue kind of situation, but with gankers and anti-gankers.
But if, as you say, they all seem to end up ganking alongside you instead of ganking you. Why gank each other when you can gank more together, right?
This makes sense. Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
I don't avoid getting shot, but I do generally avoid getting shot first. |
Voyager Arran
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
297
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:10:00 -
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The dynamics of counter-ganking also tend to make it mind-numbingly boring compared to being the jerks murdering stuff. A counter-ganking sits around for an indefinite period of time hoping that gankers will eventually come and be foiled by him. He has to be paying attention continuously, for his ward could probably be killed in the time it takes him to go to the bathroom. For the same degree of at-the-keyboard tedium, he could probably just go run missions and make more money than the miner he's protecting.
Now compare this to the experience of a ganker, who undocks or maybe two minutes at a time, blows up something shiney, and then tabs out for 15 minutes and does something else while his GCC ticks down. In the event that there is counter-ganker in a belt or whatever who would be able to interfere with a gank, they just go kill some other idiot in the next belt or whatever. Their fun continues unabated, and the counter-ganker achieves success in the most tedious forum imaginable, if at all.
TL;DR: ask yourself how many competent combat pilots you know that would be willing to sit in a belt all day waiting to maybe shoot some Catalysts and you have your answer for why counter-ganking movements never take off. |
Alternative Splicing
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:13:00 -
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Radric Davids wrote: None of those activities offer the faintest modicum of fun or reward. However, during the CODE ganking op last night (code+miniluv) there were probably 20-30 white knights trying to jam/pop pods/kill us during our ganks. Most of those who tried ended up getting killed+podded after the freighters, or hung out further away doing nothing.
Ganking is fun, exciting and rewarding. Avoiding it is easy if you have a brain.
White knighting is boring and has no reward or excitement. Nobody with a brain or any pvp skills would rationally partake in such behavior (high sec wardeccers might, its about as fun as camping the jita undock but not quite. hence why I said anyone with a brain/pvp skills
Bingo. If you protected a freighter, you would get nothing from it, maybe a thanks from an ingrateful AFK individual, but no measurable gain of any sort, and most certainly no compensation for ships used. If there were that many white knights and they were organized they'd have the sense to suicide the bumper ship - repeatedly. Think about this one for a moment - this would hamstring a gank in more ways than one.
But again, this would require coordination, commitment, leadership, etc. Not going to happen. |
Michele Bachmann
Doughboys Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:30:00 -
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I would have way more respect for CODE if they didn't have their 'crush bot aspirants' dogma. Really the best and only reason to bump and gank is because f*ck you. The whole savior of hisec thing is just stooping down to the level of a carebear imo. The miner is not deserving of a savior nor are they entitled to a different style of gameplay. The only thing they deserve is a kick in the nuts.
That being said its a clever way to keep some sort of cohesion in your group. So keep doing Allah's will. |
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Azov Rassau
Neo CONCORD
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:30:00 -
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Bronson Hughes,
As an anti-ganker, I will hereby try to make it more clear about how anti-ganking works and why there's a lack of organization.
Several months ago I had written some sunday wall-of-text about the view I have about this subject. There are indeed some dedicated, anti-gankers out there who operate mostly individually and stop ganks almost in daily basis. The problem, and the lack of organization, appears with the gameplay of anti-ganking which comes with its own set of problems. You have to be extremely and obnoxiously patient. You literally warp to the belt and wait there for hours in this position, while constantly checking local and D-Scan so that maybe some Anathema (ironically named as "salvager") will provide warp-in on top of a Mackinaw which you seek to protect.
The action you get is created by gankers. If they aren't in your area, there's no "anti-ganking" action for you.
As I had said in my previous posts, during special and on-going (for a month or so) events like the ice interdiction, believe me, we were organized. 23/7 AG fleets were up, along with their comms. People were motivated to form ECM fleets, because surely there would be some action coming up: either a suspicious Helios was sitting on top of an Orca, or a Catalyst fleet was on its way to a fail-gank.
If you are curious about what I personally do in this frame: my utmost priority in high-sec anti-piracy was making them better gankers, by giving them the guidance, awareness and the electronic education they need in order to improve themselves. (which is why I often left the system after I saw them switch to heavy ECCM Brutixes or Taloses, because my job was done and they were doing exactly what I want).
Secondly, it was also about saving the assets of highsec miners.
and that's why, in my vision of anti-ganking, there is no such thing as failing completely. because if you manage to jam the fail-fit destroyers, you save the miner/freighter. (=success). and, in the contrary, if you see the gankers switch to the more expensive but magnetometrically powerful ECCM Taloses, it also shows your success on how you managed to force them to innovate and adapt.
now I see some posts above: Please don't listen to the guy above who claims that anti-gankers hate the new order people. I don't hate anyone. It's funny because I feel like it's quite the contrary. Some of the gankers always had some rage and misconceptions about the so-called white knights, constantly insulting, smack-talking in local towards them while also insulting and trying to humiliate miners with their bold claims and bingo stuff (special thanks to Gorila Vengaza for this realistic representation). I am not gonna name those insulters, the C&P community is smart enough to understand who I am talking about.
A common misconception is that "Anti-ganking is all about GCC KM ****ing", which is false, at least in my case. Tbh my understanding of anti-ganking has always been "preventing the gank itself", not GCC KM ****ing. Sometimes I see hurricane pilots who spread their guns and shoot a little each GCC ganker before concord. did they prevent the gank? no. not even close.
To come back to anti-ganking; recently I kinda took a break from excessive gank-prevention, simply because I didn't feel like having as much fun as before. (this might change, or not.) again, the gameplay of anti-ganking can sometimes become extremely boring as Voyager Errant said above and you have to invest energy on it. (not to mention the other day I randomly jammed some 2 Code. enforcers who were enforcing fail-fit Catalyst bot-aspirancy (and they had an empty mid slot! Oh God).)
and I got tired of seeing countless AFK miners who pay ZERO (Z-E-R-O) attention to their own protection in this merciless sandbox, sometimes I really felt like "Damn, this guy doesn't deserve to be saved at all!" Most of the miners were not even thankful to me after I saved their precious Hulks/Freighters while they were AFK doing a big poo or watching the World Cup match between France and Honduras. Some miners didn't even understand what had just happened after they came back to keyboard with their shields at %64. I had to explain them word by word the whole story by telling them how they survived...
I appreciate your ideas about suicide gankers. They are a part of this game and you can't imagine highsec without them. There will always be people making sure highsec remains alive. No AFKing. -áSafety First. -áUse D-Scan, Check Local. -áBe Alert. |
Hakaari Inkuran
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:40:00 -
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There's not much incentive in escorting haulers since, believe it or not, their cargoes still aren't worth enough to make escorts worthwhile in most cases. If haulers were generally worth more than they are now, this might change.
Additionally, if CODE had more activity, disrupting markets further, this might change as well. |
Cannibal Kane
Praetorian Cannibals
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:50:00 -
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Also...
The last Anti-Ganking alliance that started up was swiftly put down like a rabbit dog by me a few weeks ago.
I do it because I have fun, they do it out of pure hatred. The minute they start having fun you might actually see more people flocking to their cause.
I am now waiting for the next one to rise. I have been seeing rumblings of one just pounding in AG now and again. Soon my pretty.. soon. "Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk |
Madame Trout
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
3
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Posted - 2014.06.16 20:50:00 -
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Here it is. |
DJentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite CODE.
368
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Posted - 2014.06.16 21:42:00 -
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came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy |
Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 22:07:00 -
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DJentropy Ovaert wrote:came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy
I don't like whines or tears. I prefer wines or beers. Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
I don't avoid getting shot, but I do generally avoid getting shot first. |
412nv Yaken
The Conference Elite CODE.
111
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Posted - 2014.06.16 22:52:00 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:DJentropy Ovaert wrote:came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy I don't like whines or tears. I prefer wines or beers.
Counter to CODE?
Current trend seems to be create blogs, cry on the forums, cry in local chat, bring 10 falcons to where we are ganking, the trouble is, you cant stop us. We have the Code on our side A True Champion of High Security Space |
Azov Rassau
Neo CONCORD
44
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Posted - 2014.06.16 23:49:00 -
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DJentropy Ovaert wrote:came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy :
Subject 4927 wrote:Jackpot.
Ohhhh Feely Nice wrote:Yeeeeeeep. Call it tears if you like. I call it facts! Congrats for the Bingo.
Best. Code. Diplomat. Ever.
You shouldn't hold your breath for becoming a diplomat (!) since you seem to have a tendancy to judge every post by its look.
Please come up with something better next time.
Apparently, honesty and facts being mentioned is considered as "tears" in your book. You obviously didn't read a single thing in my post above where I exposed facts from my point of view and answered to OPs thread related to anti-ganking. As any sane person will tell you, there are no "tears" in my post.
"Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skill book." + Diplomacy 101.
Then again, every single highsec resident knows the ganker's obsession with the word "tears". So maybe a willingness to have a proper communication with such obsession is quite useless.
Also, you failed to innovate in Nakugard that day, and ran away.
o/ No AFKing. -áSafety First. -áUse D-Scan, Check Local. -áBe Alert. |
Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite CODE.
5
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Posted - 2014.06.17 00:31:00 -
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Join the anti-ganking channel with an alt and you will find it out for yourself.
There are a hand full of players who actually try to counter us. What they actually do is whoring on CONCORD killmails while the gank still succeeds. They will then post this CONCORD killmail in the anti-ganking channel, pat each other on the back for the great success, open the champagne and probably start a new blog because of it.
The rest of the channel are dead miners who whine about how ganking is bullying and a good part of the population are New Order alts who sometimes try to give useful advice about game mechanics ( which usually results in an immediate ban ).
Sadly, the whole anti-ganker crowd seams to be so full of hateful players that the few decent pilots they sometimes have get driven away as quickly as they join. Some even get flipped and join the fight for a better highsec. |
Loraine Gess
Confedeferate Union of Tax Legalists
387
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Posted - 2014.06.17 00:49:00 -
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Ima Wreckyou wrote:Join the anti-ganking channel with an alt and you will find it out for yourself.
There are a hand full of players who actually try to counter us. What they actually do is whoring on CONCORD killmails while the gank still succeeds. They will then post this CONCORD killmail in the anti-ganking channel, pat each other on the back for the great success, open the champagne and probably start a new blog because of it.
The rest of the channel are dead miners who whine about how ganking is bullying and a good part of the population are New Order alts who sometimes try to give useful advice about game mechanics ( which usually results in an immediate ban ).
Sadly, the whole anti-ganker crowd seams to be so full of hateful players that the few decent pilots they sometimes have get driven away as quickly as they join. Some even get flipped and join the fight for a better highsec.
And even the mails are much less frequent than the miners exploding, making you wonder how hard it is to actually ***** on someone's expected killmail. |
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Beliskner
Internet Loveshack
3
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Posted - 2014.06.17 02:01:00 -
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As much as I dislike CODE., when Xan Staraider claimed his kid accidentally biomassed his character after getting destroyed I almost pissed my pants laughing.
I was in Blackwatch at the time and it brought me a great deal of embarrassment to even be associated with him. |
Subject 4927
The Last Service.
97
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Posted - 2014.06.17 05:54:00 -
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Azov Rassau wrote:DJentropy Ovaert wrote:came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy : Subject 4927 wrote:Jackpot. Ohhhh Feely Nice wrote:Yeeeeeeep. Call it tears if you like. I call it facts! Congrats for the Bingo. Best. Code. Diplomat. Ever. You shouldn't hold your breath for becoming a diplomat (!) since you seem to have a tendancy to judge every post by its look. Please come up with something better next time. Apparently, honesty and facts being mentioned is considered as "tears" in your book. You obviously didn't read a single thing in my post above where I exposed facts from my point of view and answered to OPs thread related to anti-ganking. As any sane person will tell you, there are no "tears" in my post. "Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skill book." + Diplomacy 101. Then again, every single highsec resident knows the ganker's obsession with the word "tears". So maybe a willingness to have a proper communication with such obsession is quite useless. Also, you failed to innovate in Nakugard that day, and ran away. o/
What are you doing quoting me, peasant.
http://subjectandfriends.wordpress.com |
Luwc
Biohazard. WINMATAR.
145
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Posted - 2014.06.17 06:29:00 -
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top kek http://hugelolcdn.com/i/267520.gif |
Tora Bushido
EVE Corporation 987654321-POP The Marmite Collective
969
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Posted - 2014.06.17 10:21:00 -
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Anti-CODE alliances aren't allowed, as they have no Anti-CODE permits. For 500M/week we can supply them. YOU EITHER LOVE US OR WE HATE YOU - ADAPT OR DIE - DELETE THE WEAK
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Azov Rassau
Neo CONCORD
46
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Posted - 2014.06.17 10:32:00 -
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Ima Wreckyou wrote:Sadly, the whole anti-ganker crowd seams to be so full of hateful players Hello Ima Wreckyou,
Again this misconception. Many of the dedicated and long-term anti-gankers are not hateful. We don't hate, insult or RL threaten anyone. The haters are often those gank-victim carebears who aspire to be anti-gankers. And I hope the care bears who send RL death threats to you will be banned ASAP. They're not welcomed.
Unfortunetaly the hatred also appears inside some of your alliance mates, be it Code. fanatics, or any of the self-styled diplomat-aspirants talking about their RL awesomeness in a virtual video game's forum's C&P section.
Below is why I don't hate the New Order:
412nv Yaken wrote:All those afk shuttles, dock up to go afk, you wouldn't go afk on a gate in low or null sec, so what makes you think highsec is the same, we are the reminder that EVE is a harsh and unforgiving place and highsec isn't a theme park for carebears to play around in. As you can see, there's no reason to hate. Full time AFKers don't play & understand this game and they often deserve the gank (yes, I say this as an anti-ganker).
As for the rest of your post, the answers are already given by myself in my earlier and longer post (I don't ***** on KMs Ever., quite the contrary, I feel like CONCORD is the one who whores on my gank prevention).
Subject 4927 wrote:What are you doing quoting me, peasant.
so mad.
I like quoting.
Also, Isolated Much?
o/ No AFKing. -áSafety First. -áUse D-Scan, Check Local. -áBe Alert. |
Bronson Hughes
33
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Posted - 2014.06.17 13:18:00 -
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Reading this thread, I think I'm beginning to understand why there hasn't been a successful Counter-CODE movement, and why there likely won't ever be one.
Ima Wreckyou wrote:Join the anti-ganking channel with an alt and you will find it out for yourself.
There's an anti-ganking channel? This I have to see. Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
I don't avoid getting shot, but I do generally avoid getting shot first. |
Subject 4927
The Last Service.
97
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Posted - 2014.06.17 13:32:00 -
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Seeing as you have a collection of screens involving me, It's clear that you are one of my many fans.
I should have known. Quoting me from another thread, and taking out the context entirely, was proof enough that your devotion to me is of high regard. http://subjectandfriends.wordpress.com |
La Rynx
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
17
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Posted - 2014.06.17 13:39:00 -
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codies are very full of them self killing harmless miners. it needs a special mindset to fall for this propaganda and believe in it. in meta view they are just fulltime grievers. Ganking per se isnt the problem, the way codies behave is. Dont believe? Ask for erotika1 |
Azov Rassau
Neo CONCORD
47
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Posted - 2014.06.17 15:40:00 -
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Subject 4927 wrote:Seeing as you have a collection of screens involving me, It's clear that you are one of my many fans.
I should have known. Quoting me from another thread, and taking out the context entirely, was proof enough that your devotion to me is of high regard.
This was one hilarious post.
I quoted you (and another person) simply as a response to that ganker's typical "tears" bingo response. I believe it's entirely in context.
I remember agreeing with some of your previous statements in these forums and you have some good points in your blog too.
Maybe you should post with your main so that we know who you are. No AFKing. -áSafety First. -áUse D-Scan, Check Local. -áBe Alert. |
BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
Unleashed Pestilence
693
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Posted - 2014.06.17 17:10:00 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:There's an anti-ganking channel? This I have to see. Be very careful joining that channel. There are some things the human mind should not be exposed to.
New player resources: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Main_Page - General information http://www.evealtruist.com/p/know-your-enemy.html - Learn to PvP http://belligerentundesirables.com/ - Safaris, Awoxes, Ganking and Griefing-á |
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