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parabellum88
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:40:00 -
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last nite i got blown out of the sky in my ferox wit only 50 percent insurance on it (that was all i could afford)by 2 battleships gate camping in a 0.4. i no this is a unsecure spot but stil why would they do that. no ransom no threats just blowing people up. and then they podded me but thats not that big of a deal i didnt have important implants or anything. but the point of this is why gatecamp. why just blow other ppl up for no reason and have a sec lvl of -7.6 in like 15 mins. i dont see the point.
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Dave White
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:41:00 -
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*sigh*
Boredom? Fun?
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AlexCA
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:41:00 -
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It earns a living?
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5hakey
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:43:00 -
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Cus they wanna?
Cus they find it fun?
Cus it earns them isk?
Cus they like to make ppl whine?
Cus theres always people who ignore the blatent map warnings?
Cus its only a game and they treat it as such?
Theres a few points, pick your favourite.
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Dave White
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:46:00 -
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Edited by: Dave White on 21/06/2006 16:48:24
Edited by: Dave White on 21/06/2006 16:46:38
 Originally by: parabellum88
i understand all but one of those points. they dont earn isk they just blow ppl up. they dont try to ransom them. they dont blow up ppl wit only bounties. idk about other ppls ships but nothing dropped from mine so they didnt earn anything from killing me.
Loot. Not everyone may have good loot, but it's not like their going to scan ships and leave those with T1 stuff alone
Edit: Not smart to buy ships that you cant fully insure and replace if you lose it.
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parabellum88
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:46:00 -
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i understand all but one of those points. they dont earn isk they just blow ppl up. they dont try to ransom them. they dont blow up ppl wit only bounties. idk about other ppls ships but nothing dropped from mine so they didnt earn anything from killing me.
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Dave White
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:46:00 -
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Originally by: 5hakey
Cus they wanna?
Cus they find it fun?
Cus it earns them isk?
Cus they like to make ppl whine?
Cus theres always people who ignore the blatent map warnings?
Cus its only a game and they treat it as such?
Theres a few points, pick your favourite.
qft.
They do it to teach newbs also.
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Yelao
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:47:00 -
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Originally by: AlexCA
It earns a living?
And dont you hate it when people make their signature look like part of their post?
I actually wondered a moment on the meaning of that second line...
To the OP: fun, boredom, ISK, and so they can read messages like these on the boards afterwards 
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parabellum88
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:49:00 -
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well if there are legidamite reasons for doing so then i guess i just have to deal with it
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Nicocat
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:51:00 -
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Never, ever run to Lowsec without a scout, possibly an escort, especially with an uninsured ship (anything less that plat insurance is uninsured)
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Lisento Slaven
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Posted - 2006.06.21 16:52:00 -
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If they're legit reasons?
Here's a legit reason - 0.4 - 0.0 is PVP space. Go there expecting to die =P
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gfldex
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:02:00 -
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They provide the risk that is ment to be in low sec.
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MuffinsRevenger
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:05:00 -
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Kind of slightly evil siting at the jump from safe to unsafe though :>
more targets there i supose, but yeah, but they could atleast have been giving people a chance to get their feet in before you cut their legs of i supose
allthough as people said, you can do everything you want to in eve, thats the whole point :P
Originally by: The Wizz117
jeez those guyz @ ccp talk like sweedish nobody will take u seriouse with that cind of accent.
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Leandro Salazar
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:06:00 -
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It enlarges their epeen. That is very important to some people.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:06:00 -
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Originally by: Lisento Slaven
If they're legit reasons?
Here's a legit reason - 0.4 - 0.0 is PVP space. Go there expecting to die =P
qft
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turnschuh
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:07:00 -
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Originally by: gfldex
They provide the risk that is ment to be in low sec.
yeah its like negative-concord, they shoot everything but when aggressed they run.
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:08:00 -
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Originally by: parabellum88
well if there are legidamite reasons for doing so then i guess i just have to deal with it
Yeah, thats the right attitude to this game actually. You will encounter some tactics you dont really like or understand the fun of, but everybody plays the game their way. 
Some low sec is pretty dangerous, specially near mission areas. Get instant bookmarks if you are in a slow ship like the ferox. I tanked 2 of those gate snipers in my rupture, at least for the 10 seconds it took to MWD to the gate. 
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Motley Spacefarer
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:18:00 -
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the sad answer is because they can
some ppl aparently like sitting by a gate shooting at everything that moves knowing that they are completely safe and cant get killed (because they are aligned and ready to warp out should anyone get to close)
IMO gate campers are the lowest of low in eve but they are unfortunatlly part of life in eve as for why they do it its anyone's guess
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Fester Addams
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:27:00 -
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The most commonly camped gates are the ones closest to high sec, and of them the most commonly camped are the ones that happen to be a route.
The way eve is designed is based on chokepoints, if you wish to travel more than 3 jumps you will be hard pressed to find alternate routes that are reasonably close in number of jumps and thus high traffic gates are created.
Camping a gate is deathly dull and for that reason you want to camp a high traffic gate with no concorde response and that is usually a 0.4 system right outside on high sec space.
As for why you gate camp... there is a multitude of reasons for it but in reality it boils down to three possibilities.
#1: Isk. plenty of players make their isk from camping gates.
#2: Fun. Plenty of people consider it to be alot of fun to blow up another player.
#3: EGO. Plenty of people have low selfasteem and get back the whoever they feel they have to get back at by blowing off steam in EvE.
Now usually its a combination of two or three that is the real reason but any excuse you put before me I bet I can boil down to thise three.
Ganking newbies for example will usually be #3 possibly with a smidge of #2.
Killing haulers is easilly #1 but in all probability some #2 aswell.
I can go on but I doubt there is any need.
Personally I dont have much problem with camps, most empire camps can be avoided or waited out however I think its sad that there is in reality not all that much you can do about them.
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Cadela Fria
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:34:00 -
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Edited by: Cadela Fria on 21/06/2006 17:35:00
1. There is no "legitimate" reason for this, cause you don't need one
2. People do it cause they can
3. People also do it cause they think it's fun. Are you trying to tell me you're doing things in EVE BECAUSE they're boring, annoying or tedious?. I understand some things have to be done now and then thats not fun..but you don't do it because it's not fun.
4. Loot
5. People also do it to **** other people off..again, part of the whole fun aspect. I for one, back when I was pirating, loved it when people got upset about me killing them. If I was still pirating..well, same thing.
6. Because it's a game, no moral implications to worry about! (great stuff)
7. Did I say, because they can?
8. Oh yeah, and because they can.
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Sennlloy Wolf
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:35:00 -
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Originally by: 5hakey
Cus theres always people who ignore the blatent map warnings?
Actually, the map is not always acurate. A few hours before downtime (realy early morning for me), I was trying to get from 0.0 into empire though 7q. the map showed 1 person in system in the past 30 minutes, no ship kills in the past hour, no pod kills in the past hour.
I jumped into 7q and noticed 8 other people. Said - "what the heck" and warped to my BM for the other gate and got stuck in a bubble. Lost my shuttle and then my pod. Opps. Knew I should have logged and tried later. My mistake.
However, people coming the other way would have no way of knowing other than by using a scout.
Why where they there? Why else - to give me a fun heart thumping couple of seconds as I hoped to reach the gate in at least my pod Man they locked me fast!
Anyway - fly safe
Sennlloy.
kill or be killed - if you outlawed ships, only outlaws can be pirates
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Xendie
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:52:00 -
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Originally by: parabellum88
last nite i got blown out of the sky in my ferox wit only 50 percent insurance on it (that was all i could afford)by 2 battleships gate camping in a 0.4. i no this is a unsecure spot but stil why would they do that. no ransom no threats just blowing people up. and then they podded me but thats not that big of a deal i didnt have important implants or anything. but the point of this is why gatecamp. why just blow other ppl up for no reason and have a sec lvl of -7.6 in like 15 mins. i dont see the point.
Moved from General Discussion -Suvetar
NBLI
Originally by: F'nog
This would be great, because lag is not at all a problem currently.
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Lodhi
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Posted - 2006.06.21 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: parabellum88
last nite i got blown out of the sky in my ferox wit only 50 percent insurance on it (that was all i could afford)by 2 battleships gate camping in a 0.4. i no this is a unsecure spot but stil why would they do that. no ransom no threats just blowing people up. and then they podded me but thats not that big of a deal i didnt have important implants or anything. but the point of this is why gatecamp. why just blow other ppl up for no reason and have a sec lvl of -7.6 in like 15 mins. i dont see the point.
Moved from General Discussion -Suvetar
We do this since we can.
And mining is booring..
Simple as that.
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operated
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Posted - 2006.06.21 18:08:00 -
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Reason why i camp gates is because i ran out of money and im so bored of npcing and missions , if i blow up ppl i get interaction , and i sometimes get cool fights , occasional ganksqauds i get to , so basicly you cant complain outlaws get ganked to . Basicly outlaws are sitting ducks , especially when they gategank (meaning they tank sentries) . Outlaws like the risk i guess , and i basicly do it for isk , interaction , thrills , and i get pvp whole time im on .
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Kahor
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Posted - 2006.06.21 18:41:00 -
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Originally by: Motley Spacefarer
the sad answer is because they can
some ppl aparently like sitting by a gate shooting at everything that moves knowing that they are completely safe and cant get killed (because they are aligned and ready to warp out should anyone get to close)
IMO gate campers are the lowest of low in eve but they are unfortunatlly part of life in eve as for why they do it its anyone's guess
It's far from being risk free.
An eye for an eye make a whole world blind.
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Gift
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Posted - 2006.06.21 18:54:00 -
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Edited by: Gift on 21/06/2006 18:59:32
I camp gates because of the current criminal flagging system that limits my gameplay if I try & pirate any onther way.
EDIT- atleast that was my logic when I actually played the game.
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Shamis Orzoz
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Posted - 2006.06.21 19:05:00 -
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In empire, interdictors are not allowed, and interceptors get owned by sentries. So unless you have a fairly large group of players who are collectively tanking sentries and warp scrambling, there really is no option to ransom at a gate in empire.
So you shouldn't blame the pirate that killed you, you should blame the sentries that make it difficult to ransom.
shamis
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TheKoolEagle
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Posted - 2006.06.21 20:04:00 -
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Originally by: turnschuh
Originally by: gfldex
They provide the risk that is ment to be in low sec.
yeah its like negative-concord, they shoot everything but when aggressed they run.
thats funny, i seem to remember one of my favorite fights came from being agressed at a gate.
me and my corp mate were sniping, and a vagabond started hanging around the gate, making instas to our sniping spots.
so we knew what he was doing, so we fitted for close combat.
I warped in on the obvious one and acted like i couldnt warp out when he approached...
a pilgrim uncloaks and the vaga and pilgrim started attacking me, but unfortunately for them i was in a close combat uber tank setup, then the domi warped in 
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Jacques Archambault
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Posted - 2006.06.21 20:05:00 -
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They do it for the "squish" sound when you blow up a pod. 
But tbh, belt piracy can be a lot more fun instead of sitting at a gate. The joy of the hunt 4tw.
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Psycarne
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Posted - 2006.06.21 20:15:00 -
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