Taedrin
Kushan Industrial
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Posted - 2011.11.08 07:06:00 -
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TBH, I'm not exactly certain how much of a "problem" suicide ganking is. I am probably just about the carebeariest carebear out there, and I have not ONCE been suicide ganked in high sec. Sure, I've been targeted (and I presume cargo scanned) plenty of times when I afk-autopilot with an empty or low-value cargohold. But not once have I been shot at in high sec.
It all comes to one of the unwritten rules of EVE: don't haul more than 20 million ISK worth of goods in an untanked T1 hauler. If you want to haul expensive goods, then pick the right tool for the right job.
Got expensive officer mods to haul? Move them in a heavy tanked battlecruiser and don't AFK autopilot. Expensive BPOs? haul them in a cov ops ship. Technetium or other expensive bulk materials? Use a blockade runner. Got a billion ISK worth of trit to haul? Use a freighter. So on and so forth.
On the other hand, I *REALLY* don't like it when I hear about suicide gankers who gank "for the lulz". It's one thing if you gank for profit or for revenge, or because you want to drive the competition away. But it's another thing entirely when you can just go around blowing up people's relatively expensive ships at little/no cost to yourself.
However, there are better ways for CCP to fix this "problem" (if it really exists) than messing with insurance. They could start banning people who recycle alts (CCP could EASILY cross reference a character biomassing with the number of times they have attracted CONCORD's ire in the last month, for example). They could give miners a tankier ship to mine with, which would still be better than a Covetor. They could create some sort of intel gathering tool (which would finally give CCP an excuse to remove local in 0.0) so that miners can detect when someone is warping in on them without having to flood the server with d-scan requests.
So many ways that CCP could fix this problem without applying the sledge hammer to crack the walnut.
That being said, we have a saying in EVE, that isn't said often enough IMO:
Adapt or die.
However EVE evolves is the way EVE evolves and the players will just have to adapt to these changes regardless over whether the changes hurt carebears, null sec alliances, mercs, pirates or whoever. |