Fire Hawk
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Posted - 2006.05.15 10:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Leandro Salazar
I think the biggest problem with the suicide ganking (aside from the sociopathic aspects of (ab)using what I would call a loophole rather than an exploit) is that there is NO WARNING whatsoever about it anywhere in the game. So unless you are a forum *****, usually the only warning you get that this can happen is first hand experience. From all I can tell, the game at every point makes you believe high sec is indeed safe even in a T1 hauler.
Add to that the totally ridiculous facts that the perpetrator even gets insurance payout for sacrificing his ship in a criminal act, and that his buddy/alt gets to pick up the victims loot right under the nose of the police, and you get a lot of victims of this quitting simply because it goes 100% against any kind of common sense.
Imho the tutorial definitely needs a chapter about suicide gankers now that there are almost more of them than there are real pirates, and that chapter should pop up for every player once when it is introduced. If and when suicide ganks still happen then, it will be truly and only the victims fault, either for disregarding the warning or for not RTFT ;)
The security status loss for a ship kill in a high secure space is high. Starting from -2.5 (excluded), you are KOS to concord/customs in 1.0, so people cant do it indefinitly. Add that you need patience, organisation (scan, scout etc), and risk of loosing your suicide ship and get an agress penality for nothing - so there is a work to get your cargo.
IMHO, this doesnt concern new players. It concerns players that have valuable stuff to move, if u aware how to earn money/stuff, you must be aware how to move it safetly. Use cans, use courrier missions, use insta's, use Freighter services corporations, use your brain, ... to avoid incidents.
Then you have a kill right, havent ya ? Use it to disturb his suicide ganks, take a ship (even a frig) and try to jam him on sight. You may die again, but u'll not loose as he will, as security status isnt buyable or insured 
Dont point it as "exploit", as clearly CCP never lied : "High Secure Space", afaik, "high" doesnt mean "invulnerable" and no bug is exploited for this. And Game mecanisms limit this activity with security status system. Well done CCP, all this sounds balanced to me, please dont ask for the nerfbat 
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