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Posted - 2014.08.08 15:31:00 -
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Personally I don't see any issues with ganking freighters, haulers, miners, even shuttles and noob ships.
In null or low sec it is a no brainer assuming the target is not blue to the ganker. A certain level of skill and/or luck is required on the part of the ganker to find and kill the target, coupled with the decision on the part of the target to place his vessel in the hostile environment in the first place.
In high sec it can be justified, when the benefit outweighs the expected losses. I'm thinking an operation where a freighter is scanned to find a valuable cargo and then a suicide gank is carried out with a hauler being brought in to scoop the loot and the expected haul to more than cover the cost of the lost suicided ships.
I take my hat off to people that manage this. I've even done it a couple of times. The fact that I don't do it more is because it isn't as easy as it sounds. Requires patience and a sec status which I just can't be bothered to maintain or pay for. That's assuming that the purpose of said gank, has a 'real' objective. I say this because there is no skill on the part of the ganker, or luck involved, or bad play on the part of the target.
And there is the rub that I think most people have with Code and other parties that do what they do. What is their objective?
Looking at Code's Killboard, it clearly isn't profit. It appears to be Killboard padding. Now in my opinion killboard padding is a valid objective. However, if you are going for killboard padding, you have to be honest. It seems these people are exploiting the fact that their losses to Concord are not pulled to the killboard, so they are getting these great killboard stats and isk efficiencies while just pretending that they didn't lose anything and we haven't even got onto the very real and significant additional cost of buying back your sec status.
In short they are trading Isk via a flawed mechanic for killmails so that they can pretend to be leet PvPers.
They will of course say, it is about the tears etc, but I think this bitter comment was very telling.
DJentropy Ovaert wrote:Of course, those on the other side of the fight who manage to do 1% damage against a catalyst in high-sec while concord does the other 99% is a honorable warrior who scored a "real" kill and should be praised, right?
It is clear that the real sting for the author here is that the 1% damage from another player, resulted in the killmail getting pulled by the killboards.
Guys, if it is killboard padding you want and you can't be honest about it. A more efficient method would be to just post fake mails. But I guess the popular independent killboards take measures to stop that sort of thing. It's just not fair is it?
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