Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
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Posted - 2017.04.17 14:00:37 -
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Merin Ryskin wrote:Define "used to be". Are we talking about some point a few weeks ago, before the last time you got ganked? Or are we talking about the early days of the game, when it was possible to tank CONCORD and corps set up 23/7 gatecamps in market systems and killed everything that jumped in? I will take a shot at this one. I started in 2009 there were less than 1/4th the number of characters hanging about in usual choke points and Jita (even though there were more characters online) than there is now so in that way the answer is yes there has been a steady increase in ganking, at least in some specific areas of space over the years.
Then hulkageddon happened and the number of gankers multiplied by several orders of magnitude, yet when that event officially ended after several years run the number of gankers did not decrease by any significant amount so again the answer is yes there has been an increase in ganking over the years.
Based on information from friends and corp mates past and present even back in those heady days of tanking Concord there was not as much ganking going on game wide as there is today.
Is the ganking good or bad? Neither, for the most part it simply is a fact of the game and one has to adjust to keep safe. On the other hand it can be a bad thing for the game and CCP has recognized this and made appropriate nerfs to the ganking game play style as a result.
Sonya Corvinus wrote:Griefing is against the TOS and a bannable offense. If you see someone griefing as per the terms of service, report them with a support ticket. The problem here is that the TOS does not really define what griefing is, it gives a vague definition and then leaves it in the hands of the people at CCP who review each case to make the decision. So that brings up the question is ganking a banable offense because griefing? The answer is yes it can be, but that does not mean that all ganking is griefing.
Jonah Gravenstein wrote: You lot never learn.
I believe you are as wrong here as you could possibly be. CCP watches ganking fairly closely because of it's potential to be devastating to their cash flow and on many occasions CCP has not liked what they see so they have stepped in to nerf the ganking game play style, yet you and many others blame the targets of those ganks for those nerfs. The nerfs that have happened in the past and any that may happen in the future are the direct result of the gankers actions, and those gankers are 100% responsible for those changes, so man up and admit it then and only then will you be able to put the entirety of the situation into proper perspective. Oh and always remember CCP is a company in business to make money, the game of EvE is the vehicle they chose to do it with and when a game play style threatens their cash flow you can count on them to make changes to protect that cash flow even if it means nerfing a popular game play style. |