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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 18:20:00 -
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This is not a rant about CODE or other similar suicide gankers. Although I do not (usually) participate in that particular style of gameplay and I can understand why some people would consider it a form of griefing, I think it's perfectly valid and in some ways even useful. They've unified a group of people behind a cause and are proving to be very effective at implementing it. I call that a success story.
I say kudos to them.
No, this post is about the people ranting about suicide gankers. For all the uproar you read here and see in local, you'd figure that someone would have organized a movement against CODE by now to slow down their wave of suicide ganks. Unless said movement is very quiet about their actions, I've seen no sign of it's existence. This could be partly because the most basic counters to a CODE-esque gank are best carried out by individual pilots, not organizations:
Don't autopilot.
Don't make yourself an expensive target by:
Hauling goods worth more than it would cost to gank you.
Flying expensive ships with paper-thin tanks without proper support.
People could go beyond these basic measures, yet few, if any do. Why haven't all these people complaining about suicide ganks banded together and:
Started flying cheap ECM fleets to jam gankers?
Started flying cheap logistics fleets to rep miners/haulers?
Scanning down gank fleets and pre-emptively ganking them?
I am not the person to organize such a movement; I have neither the time nor the inclination. But I do think it would be interesting to see it happen and I'd love to watch it in action.
If you really don't like the impact that suicide gankers are having on your gameplay, try standing up and doing something about it instead of complaining that they ganked your expensive ship.
This is EvE. You are never safe here. Get used to it and take steps to protect yourself.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 19:46:00 -
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Haedonism Bot wrote:The main reason that every anti-Code movement fails before it gets off the ground is because all of them, to date, are based on a sense of entitlement, and a hatred of players who they perceive as being bad people in real life. By contrast, the New Order is based on fun video game content. You aren't going to attract and retain a group of gamers if your cause isn't fun. I always figured that the only way that an anti-New Order movement could have a chance of persisting is if they embrace the same tactics that the New Order uses - ganking, AWOXing, etc. The
Even then, the odds are slim that they could ever match the New Order at that game. The special genius that James 315 has is that he keeps this fun every day, even after all this time. That's why you see so many people who start out fighting us end up on our side.
Interesting. I totally get what you're saying about entitlement, that's one of the underlying roots of most good whiny rants.
Given how paper-thin gank-fit ships are, I'm surprised that more people haven't tried stepping up to gank the gankers. If not to protect miners/haulers out of s sense of entitlement, then just for the entertainment value. Kind of a Red vs Blue kind of situation, but with gankers and anti-gankers.
But if, as you say, they all seem to end up ganking alongside you instead of ganking you. Why gank each other when you can gank more together, right?
This makes sense.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.16 22:07:00 -
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DJentropy Ovaert wrote:came expecting anti-ganker tears
left happy
I don't like whines or tears. I prefer wines or beers.
Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.17 13:18:00 -
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Reading this thread, I think I'm beginning to understand why there hasn't been a successful Counter-CODE movement, and why there likely won't ever be one.
Ima Wreckyou wrote:Join the anti-ganking channel with an alt and you will find it out for yourself.
There's an anti-ganking channel? This I have to see.
Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.17 18:32:00 -
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BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie wrote:Bronson Hughes wrote:There's an anti-ganking channel? This I have to see. Be very careful joining that channel. There are some things the human mind should not be exposed to.
What is it? I am curious to see if what I've concluded from this thread is true there.
Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.17 18:34:00 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:Anti-ganking is the name of the channel.
No points for creativity....
Reading Comprehension: a skill so important it deserves it's own skillbook.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.24 11:02:00 -
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Purity by Fire wrote:Also why has your treasury balance dropped to 23 bill from 68 bill in only a month?
Surely the freighter ganking is providing a decent income?
Some of the freighters they have been killing in Aufay have been empty. They're not doing it for profit, they're doing it for the Code.
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Bronson Hughes
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Posted - 2014.06.24 13:45:00 -
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Jove Eden wrote:I would like some clarification on this CODE as well if possible.
As noted from actually reading what CODE are going on about there are a couple of things I would like to clarify.
There is a Q/A thread with a CODE. diplomat here. You may want to consider directing your inquiry there.
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