Trash article on themittani.com nonshocker.

Your correct, but in defense of the article what the author was saying is that players already had the option to adapt and they don't work for NPC corporations, they work for themselves. Tanking up a mining ship to avoid a suicide gank was extremely easy to do and 100% effective before the patch. People simply didn't do it, hence the point to make is that players refused to adapt, so CCP adapted the game for them. I agree with author that this is not a good way to go about developing a competitive game. If players can't adapt because the mechanics are unfair, than yea, fix them... but if you have the option to adapt and you simply ignore it because the rewards are better if you choose not to tank out your miner, than you have a made a conscious player choice and should live with the consequences.

The only question here is should there be consequences in high sec? Is a game without consequences fun? I think these are some of the fundamental questions about suicide ganking.

Saw "Mittani.com" in the header, said "Oy Vey" and took wide pass.

The thing is, high sec actually favours the gankers as I understand it. They can steal from miners and there is nothing the miners can do. Their corps can't defend them until they are agressed, by which time it is too late anyway. The miner has been ganked if he fights back and his wreck is looted and salvaged by an alt.

For suicide gankers, they get concorded, but again, there are no pre-emptive precautions that can be taken against them in high sec. In low sec, the corps could just kill them the moment they appear in local. You can't do that in high-sec.