EVE Search - HighSec Ganking and Appropriate Punishment

Dracvlad wrote:

Ima Wreckyou wrote:

Dracvlad wrote:

In terms of the concept too easy, its true that you guys have been very organised and very good at it, however more and more people are ganking which is creating an inbalance in the game. Many people on our side feel that the penalties applied to the gankers are no deterrence at all, this is not so much a question of easy, but more to do with a balance that makes people think about whether to do this or not, this is why many of us suggest a slight adjustment to the penalties in hisec. Like many I am not against ganking as such, but I feel that the deterrence provided by the Empires and CONCORD are not enough to create the right balance in game.

This is not NPC content where you can balance it by adjusting the loot table. This is player content that gets balanced by the game mechanics and this is what CCP is doing for over 12 years. They continuously nerfed ganking and the result is a more secure Highsec which in turn leads to fatter Freighters because people feel safe.

So if you think it is too rewarding to gank Freighters, wait until Highsec gets even safer. Go two years back and tell someone that carebears autopilot Freighters with 12B ISK on a daily basis and no one will believe you.

There will always be someone who steps up the game if you nerf ganking even more because at some point the Freighters will get so fat it will pay for the losses. But the more you nerf the more people will be required and you will have whole alliances centred around this fountain of wealth which is the careless carebear (this is already happening as you may have noticed).

The "balance" is where do you want to have that fat freighter ISK wise. Is 12bil ok or should it be more? Maybe you are happy if we kill only 100bil ISK Freighters? Or should we go back to 2bil ISK Freighters again and enable the whole Freighter ganking profession for smaller groups in the process.

My comments are aimed more at the penalties which are applied as part of the CONCORD reaction to ganking, I think they need to be adjusted so add back a bit more deterrence but without making it too difficult, the issue is that CCP tend to over compensate..

In truth I think that freighters are a bit too easy, you quite often kill those which are carrying nothing, but then again you guys have got very organised to kill them which of course makes it look easy, credit to you chaps there for your gameplay, in effect I am not so focussed on the value of the freighter, 2bn as a cross over point seems reasonable to me, but stil the tank on a Charon is rather naff.