This thread is now about portraits. Take that carebears.

Guess solo mining (especially by new players) is a playstyle considered 'unwanted' by CCP.

and you are not understanding what I mean by 'anti-ganking'.

ganking starts by the ganker deciding to attack a miner whom he is very certain he can kill. In high sec, he must be quick enough to do this before concord arrives, but otherwise, the ganker will reign supreme (unless the miner has friends in bound when the ganker appears).

To me, "anti-ganking" means the ganker THINKS he's going after a miner, but has attacked a warship. This means the target is NOT a miner (he can NOT mine at all). The target is a ship that LOOKS like a miner, but is armed and equipped to fight.

This is NOT a ship that "does everything" as you said. The ship has given up the ability to mine for another function. It is a ship that does one thing and one thing only... turn the tables on gankers who have gotten careless.

A dedicated combat hull can not do this because the ganker will not attack a warship. The ganker would leave the warship alone.

The ganker WOULD go after the 'anti-ganker' because it looks like his chosen prey. It looks like a meal, not hell-in-space.

but that option's no longer available, is it?

...because I'm not allowed to mount weapons.

Yes it is. The new exhumers and barges do exactly that, and in some mining ships you can pack a bit of bite of your own.

My point is more towards the idea of GÇ£conveying the impression of a soft target with limited tanking skillsGÇ¥ GÇö that impression was shattered in the old days by using a scanner, same as it is today. If you could pull of that deception back then, you can do it now GÇö being in a squishy harvesting ship rather enhances the image than being in a combat shipGǪ

Something which should make you PvPers happy.

I've decided to stay off the forum until I've had a chance to test Kronos with my newest character.

Since that character is still drastically underskilled for the hostile enviorment I perceive High sec now is for solo miners, that will be at least 2 months.

That is not true for High. The 1-0.8 Systems are quite save. 0.5 System are completly different. I have seen people looseing 30k eHP Procurers there. I think the gain is not worth the risk today.

So most miners simply do not take fun in an enemy they not realy want and nobody is realy takeing care of gankers. There is no balance.

3) No safe areas in high security for criminals that destroyed too many ships or people that don't fight back.

I know the game mechanics lol I am saying it needs to be addressed its to easy eve is not suppose to be easy like that

how many freighters are taken down at a gate or station with concord right there :) seen that happen more than once

Point being that the idea is to end our play style.

117 pages & this thread has, as predicted, gone nowhere & provided very little in the way of meaningful content. No "Abloobloobloo, thing being ganked after changes" is not meaningful content. As the OP & his or her angry highsec followers have failed to provide content at any point during the last 117 pages, I propose that this thread be locked.

A second minor change would benefit miners, miner bumpers, gankers and gankees. There are no criminal effects until shields are depleted. In other words until you can show the officer damage he will not show up to write a ticket (or blow you up).

Unless you are a suicide ganker, and thats what this thread is about. Suicide gankers aren't playing the same game as the rest of us.

The reality is that sucide gankers are typically afraid of losing in real pvp and that is why they chose to sit on high sec gates preying on noobs and casuals who aren't familiar with concord response times. Instead of looking for challenging opponents that would be much more satisfying to put down, they chose to prey on the weakest of players who usually have no recourse. There is no reason CCP needs to continue enabling these extremely risk-averse players who somehow feel entitled to screw with random noobs and casuals within the comfort of high sec.

These are the types of people who always get **** on in PVP games and have been reduced to suicide ganking in EVE for a reason. They are not people who you can respect and they do not deserve any special treatment in EVE.

Other game companies would realize by now that it is a bad idea to let the toxic sociopaths exploit newer and casual players whose only crime is not being familiar with concord response times. Suicide gankers do not benefit the game whatsoever, they take away from it. I'm personally disgusted that such a low-risk, low-cost, high-profit mechanic exists in EVE at all, the fact that it primarily targets newer/casual players for exploitation makes it even worse. It makes EVE feel unfair and like a disgusting game where the most pathetic of sociopaths get to have their cake and eat it too and don't have to play by the same rules as the rest of us. Fixing can flipping and creating crime watch were a step in the right direction and now something needs to be done to fix suicide ganking which more risk-averse players are flocking to everyday. These things don't seem to be a problem for CCP untill more people start doing it. It is only a matter of time before the head gets removed from where the sun don't shine. I'm confident of that. Nobody is asking for an end so high-sec pvp or some ridiculous thing like that. Suicide ganking is just completely broken and imbalanced and every intelligent person knows it.

I'm not going to leave a rookie alone just because they're a rookie... how are they supposed to learn?

That said, I don't go out of my way to target rookies. At least with suicide ganks, all non-compliant miners are fair game.

With other things I do I try to avoid going after young players.