This is tough, how many times do i need to says its a lot easier today to not feel the consequence. gank someone in high sec 5 years ago and you're out in null sec ratting for 5 days to make the isk back, now you run incursions, run a few level 5's in a carrier that you can also afford. If anything Gankers are just as guilty at being lazy. It's nothing to do with smart game play.

The difference is that you never had a large group of players with a significant SRP who sit in highsec all day, every day, suicide ganking people. It's not the mechanics that have changed, it's the desire of a large swath of the nullsec playerbase to try and make highsec uninhabitable for new/casual players.

You dont know what your talking about, macrointel was the organisation that preceded code way back in 2006 and our brutix's and fittings were paid for by nullsec alliances/t2 BPO holders.

I know...it's crazy....he wants to make them able to generate income in highsec without blowing up as much....there is nothing more likely to drive them into bankruptcy and out of the game. I guess he is just one of those Goon alts who wants to squash any potential competition. Lucky we have others, like CODE, who do everything the can to make the game enjoyable for new players and encourage them to stay in the game.

Which, remember, only the already rich can really gain from.

Yeah, he wants to ruin the lives of new players.

It makes buying a PLEX for sale pretty much mandatory, which means more money for CCP...

Sorry, was laughing too hard at this part. I believe that reasoned discourse is an important part of Eve, and debated CODE on their in game minerbumping channel until they banned, and until a couple of weeks ago was on the in game BU channel until Arden banned me for refusing to join/support CODE. 90% of the time there was spent either watching people engaged in petty fights in chat with each other, or suspect baiting mission runners, etc... The idea that they have either the manpower or the resources to light highsec on fire is, quite simply, laughable.

lolz...punishing criminals by putting them in jail is a form of protection for society as it prevents them from committing more crimes. The GCC timer protects all of highsec from the ganker...duh.

Because the only way to ensure ship loss was to force the guy to sit for 15 minutes not for 2 minutes . Come on.

It would be trivial to code things to make evading CONCORD an exploit

haha becoming to safe that's a joke empire has more lost ships per day then all of low sec and nullie combined
safe space is 0.0

if the content includes continuing humiliation of other players and try to force them to aggressive behaviour. (griefing) is not content that any gaming platform requires. The game might be a sandbox, but that is not an invitation to some players to poo into the sandbox, because this small group thinks this is funny and to make poo in a sandbox is only natural.

So other players might feel disgusted, even when they never fell into this poo and want a stop to this kind of behaviour.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, bull. Consequences is something EVE seriously lacks in a lot of aspects. Ganking is definitely one of those aspects.

Counter ganking efforts are ridiculed because there is no good way to execute them. There is absolutely nothing you can do to a ganker to disrupt them because the whole character is effectively disposable.

As for chasing their donators, if you can find ones that aren't just alts, it's unlikely you'd be able to do much to disrupt anything. Chances are you would spend more time and isk than they ever have on their handful of cheap catalysts.

300m is pocket change, you can make that by breakfast, and compared the the masses of grinding that used to be required, it's barely a shadow of the effort that it used to take. That's to completely take yourself from career ganker to flying without even a red highlight on your name.

Except that the killboards are full of players getting ganked, especially new/casual players, and many respond by just quitting the game because they don't enjoy getting curbstomped. Much like the awoxxing mechanics, the easy proliferation of suicide ganking in highsec materially harms player retention.

Quite like this post that everyone seems to have dodged.

Blah, blah, more name calling and immaturity...time to go back to grade school?

Awoxxing serves as a perfect example of CCP's thinking here, and attempt to improve the game for EVERYONE, not just the 2% of the playerbase that gets its highs ganking and turning eve into Grand Theft Auto.

Why should CCP provide protection for your haulage in high sec?

CONCORD offer a level of deterrent just the same as any law enforcement agency, but as with any police for they're reactive and punitive rather than proactive.

If you want your haulage to be safer, bring the guns. If you don't have any guns, sacrifice some of your profit margin and hire someone who has them to escort you.

Welcome to New Eden, you just learned a very valuable lesson in being prepared and covering your back.

Smile

I have been ganked, and survived at least one other gank attempt. Stop spouting falsehoods. I don't haul because of the risk of ganking. My playstyle is affected by CONCORD's weak kneed law enforcement. I am quite familiar with the game mechanics, have studied the issue carefully, and am obviously entitled to my (overwhelmingly correct) opinion. I didn't realize CCP put you in charge of deciding who is allowed to post on the forums.