There is nothing PvP about the market, manufacturing, mining (although could be), invention, missions, etc.

So as a player who makes a living ganking other players who are mostly defensless against you, you are now complaining because other players will have the ability to gank you?

Seriously?

Adapt?

ROFLOL!

The thing I think is funny here is that you have been playing for two years, and yet you presume to tell the forums what Eve was like in its infancy. When I began, highsec was safe. You went to low sec if you wanted pvp. You went to null sec if you wanted wars.

I can't claim to know what Eve was like in the very beginning, but 6 years ago, there was little or no high sec piracy, except for can flippers and the like. It may be a nerf as you say, but it is a nerf of something that has grown, not something that was around since 2003.

Oh man, these people and their entitled "I pay for it, so I can use it any way I want to" attitudes. Their pride prevents them from even considering the possibility that some things were meant to be used in certain ways. Whether it's playing solo mission grind mode, or not tanking their barges, or carrying everything they own in unfit Badgers, they continue to claim that they have the right to immunity from interference.

That is all it really is that we're talking about here. It's simply the addition of risk, (however small), to a previously zero risk, (virtually anyway), activity. The only risk before this, was that you might not gank the ship in time, and thus waste your cheap fit gank ship in the process. Even that is only a risk if you don't have more numbers to throw at it.

One other risk that remains a possibility, is the gank that doesn't involve first checking your target. Even then, usually the Killboard outweighs the loss significantly, even if nothing drops.

Not that gankers won't try to tell you it's risky, but it really isn't. It's a calculated cost against a much higher potential gain. Sure, it may be nothing drops, but you've succeeded in your objective, got the killboard, and you did it with what you were willing to sacrifice in the process.

Risk requires something to lose that you were not willing to.

I'm just going to have to ask how exactly everybody else is supposed to or expected to avoid similar instances of unintended PvP?

CCP needs to shuffle and redo stuff in nullsec, it's that place that can make EvE inviting again.
CCP needs to implement mechanics that make the huge blue balls break and conflict born again.

Oh knock it off. CCP has not taken away your ability to gank freighters in any way.

The problem isn't the PvE player, the problem is the players with a lack of balance, wanting ++ber-easy kills for no other reason than to pad a KB and grief others.

What I do not understand is why those that want to PVP insist on being able to PVP against those players that have no interest in PVP. What's that matter? You really suck at PVP, so can't win a fight against someone that is ready and looking for a fight... so you prefer to only PVP against those with no interest in PVP, that are not ready for or looking for a fight?

CCP understands: gankers want guaranteed, easy profit with no risk other than losing your cheap ship, like a car trade-in.

which some alliances compensate to it's failed players.