Cyprus Amaro
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.05.31 05:09:00 -
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This whole notion that a ganker is risking something is almost humorous....
By definition, "risk" implies an uncertain outcome. The ganker knows he is going to lose his ship, so that is no risk, it is a cost of doing business.
Some argue there is a risk of failure, but CCP has eliminated this risk as well. A ganker can ship scan a potential target before committing themselves. They can see what kind of tank that juicy Hulk may or may not have. This eliminates the risk of failure.
There is a potential financial risk of course. You can't be certain the number of modules that will be dropped intact. However, the Goons have tried to eliminate this risk as well. I've heard it cost about 10 Mil to fit out a gank ship. Funny, the Goons will pay out a bounty of 100Mil for every 10 Hulks. So over the long run, they have eliminated the financial risk as well.
So, gankers face no RISK.
OTOH, picture the lowly miner.
Every time they undock to mine they are at risk of being ganked.
They can't chose to engage or not (unlike the ganker who has that choice)
They don't know the outcome (unlike the ganker).
While there are things that the miner can do to reduce their risk, they are faced with RISK, unlike the Goons. So when the Goons go on and on about how whimpy the mining communittee is, remember this. Miners are taking risk, the Gankers aren't.
There are ways to introduce risk into the act of ganking. How about a variable response time for Concord, from instantaneous as soon as the ganker fires the weapon, to a slower response that just might let them escape off grid. This would introduce an element of uncertainty, or risk, to the equation. How about making ship scanning an aggressive act, such as can flipping. It wouldn't bring Concord down on them, but it would give the miners escorts the ability to engage preemptively.
Of course nothing like this will be done because the Goons would whine and pontificate. Heaven forbid that the Goons face risk or uncertainty in their activities. And it is obvious that CCP is unwilling or afraid to do anything counter to Goon interests.
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