That "no apparent reason" was the one thing that kept everyone who runs his ass about "how gankers only sit in station" and how "gankers have it too easy" etc etc away. That's the one big issue when it comes to using a scouting alt. It gives them a ground to complain about how you avoid any meaningfull consequences of your actions.

What they think isn't relevant per se, but literally handing them an argument isn't necessary.


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Besides, sitting in the safety of a station only relying on a scout to find targets makes you look like a coward. Like, holy ****, you guys are worse than carebears avoiding any and all dangers. No, 30 seconds of actual gameplay can't be considered any danger whatsoever! You're horrible players and you should be ashamed of yourselves for dragging ganking into the mud like this! And the bullshit about the faction police, like WTF, they're the only thing making ganking actually fun because all these useless wastes of bandwidth don't engage anyone anyway!!!111oneoneone

Heh, good times. ;)

thank you. :)

Objectively not? Subjectively ... yeah, i agree with that wholeheartedly.

Proof:

When I went out there day in and day out, for months there was always someone there seeing me.
I wasn't active on the forums and /r/eve wasn't a thing to me at all, if it even was one at all.

Still, due to the former glory of Hek it was easy getting exposed to hundreds of people per day.

People see me.
People notice me.
People talk to me without insulting me.
People respect me for what i'm doing.

You know, public approval was extremely important for me.
And i had all i needed to get them on my side, too! :)

The visibility, the theme/topic most agree with and the behaviour to make noise.

I've received around four billion isk in money and ships over a few months not counting free stuff. I didn't plex my account, but back then the plex was much cheaper than now.

People gave me ships for free when i asked around in local.
People helped me drive gate gankers out of Hek.
People asked me to fight them, because it was fun bouncing around getting shot at.

i was reckless! :) With three dozen bookmarks around the station my thrasher never killed anyone serious ...
... but i scared off battleships, battlecruisers from the station when they dared engaging me. :)

back then we didn't have a "lawfull behaviour" limited engagement timer of five minutes ...
... back then i had full fifteen minutes of time to keep his sorry ass docked at the station.

And i am NOT exaggerating! :)


My point is not to brag. Public recognition important ...
... and will only work if you give them something they will respect.

Being outside as -10 on a crowded undock gains you that respect.

When people "love" you, they have something to talk about; care about you; log in because you provide entertainment; etc.

I can assure you that there is objectively spoken nothing wrong with playing a suicide ganker my way.
You might not like it, but all in all is it a more beneficial and challenging (if you're into ot) way to play it.

It causes immersion and gives the people a sense of community.

And it's less boring than sitting in space.
I really loved bouncing around playing with locals. :)


And only less than a handfull of all ganked ever complained about me, because of my first rule:


Don't gank miners!


Which also was enough of proof (clean killboard) for many (!) to make them understand that i am trustworthy. :)


So, to get back again to what you said, regarding "objectively an idiot":

Are you sure about that? it rather looks like you just prove me right with what i wrote in the op.
Maybe you indeed are selfish, uncreative and too spoiled by the pseudo "authority" that you think you possess.



I enjoyed this. Thank you so much! :)

I did a quite more than just that before others "realized". ^_^
Thank you for your post!

GC here pretty much admitted that he has no response whatsoever,
because he's completely full of himself and doesn't care about anyone...