Oh yes, it's that kind of post.

Since the punishments that CCP and put in place for gankers with a -10.0 security status doesn't seem to deter them at all, I have a couple of ideas.

So let's do a review of the current system. The ganker already loses their ship in the gank. They are in fact prepared for this and have factored this in. The ganker already loses security status in the gank. This doesn't matter because many are already at -10.0 standing. Because of this, there is no incentive for the ganker to not pod another player because they are losing their ship anyways.

My idea is the following: Implement an eye-for-an-eye system above and beyond what is currently implemented. Since clone grades have been eliminated, the only loss to getting podded these days are the implants. With that in mind, if the ganker actually pods another player, then CONCORD will pod them in return. The counter to this is that gankers would use jump clones to gank in. But the penalty for this is that they have to wait the 24-hours (modified by skills) to jump back into their implant clone.

This leads to my second idea.

Players and NPCs with low security status are considered criminals in game. At -5.0 and lower, they are free targets for every player in all space. So why are they allowed to dock in stations in highsec systems? Since they are criminals, treat them as criminals. They want to dock in a station, they can do it in lowsec. If they want to dock in highsec, then they need to do it at a POS. Something that we can wardec and shoot at instead of playing station games. The security status of the ganker verses the security status of the system would determine if they can dock at stations in that system. The scenario would change to the following:

<-2.00: Can't enter or dock in 1.0 systems.
<-2.50: Can't enter or dock in 0.9 systems.
<-3.00: Can't enter or dock in 0.8 systems.
<-3.50: Can't enter or dock in 0.7 systems.
<-4.00: Can't enter or dock in 0.6 systems.
<-4.50: Can't enter or dock in 0.5 systems.
<-5.00: Free target

If the ganker loses security status such that he/she can't dock at a station where his/her assets are located, then that is too bad for them. Also, if they have a jump clone in a station that they can't dock in, then they should be able to get to that clone, board a ship, and undock. But they won't be able to dock. So get the security status back up so you can access it. Since it has been clearly demonstrated that increasing security status penalties for hostile actions isn't working, as alot of gankers are <-5.00 security status now, let's try increasing the penalties for having a negative security status.

NOTE: I'm not saying we should get rid of suicide ganking, just make the penalties more severe. So those individuals who want to participate in that type of gameplay can still do so, but their will now be more stiff penalties they will have to deal with.

Oh I already know that I'm going to get alot of hate mail from suicide gankers, especially those C**D. guys, but I'm already expecting that.

I do agree that the highsec asteroid belts do need stronger rats as of right now, only 2-3 frigate/destroyer rats spawn. Throw a cruiser in there once in a while to make things a little uncomfortable.