Originally by: Ituralde

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Total fail by the OP.

It's very simple, it's like ratting but everything is an officer spawn. Sure, you have to split the loot a few ways but in the end you all have a pleasant payout from a group activity.

Now, we've all played the early game of EVE where we were mining or missioning for our first cruisers and battleships. Making ISK in EVE isn't really easy particularly when just starting out. I've got nothing but sympathy for new players trying to make it in this rough universe.

However, that's not who we are ganking.

Don't fool yourselves, we aren't attacking EVE's proletariat. These aren't your players who are struggling to get by, these are players with multiple billions of ISK. These are the most upper of the upper class, the bourgeoisie of EVE, with their faction vessels with officer modules.

Yes, they are still innocent carebears we are brutally murdering for fun and profit but they aren't exactly the downtrodden lower classes either. Like in real life their excessive displays of wealth make them targets for those interested in ill-gotten gains. These are the EVE-equivalents of people in real life who have multimillion-dollar purses and wris****ches, not to mention whatever monstrosity of an overpriced vehicle they are driving. Hell, some of these ships have better kits than some supercaps that have gone down over the past year or so.

I guess I should feel guilty for preying on people in safe space, but it's really a bit like feeling sorry for someone who got their brand-new $100k+ Mercedes lifted in Detroit's east side because they left it on the streets there for a day with the windows down. Yes, there are theoretically police about to theoretically prevent such things, and most often they do end up finding the vehicle, but not after all the expensive goodies have long since been fenced.

Maybe if those people were less extravagant with their ship fits and invested in getting some friends - say, a pair of logistics ships in the form of - *gasp* - corpmates (who knew) in exchange for, say, giving up a touch of their multibillions of profits, then they wouldn't have anything to worry about on the suicide ganking front.

In short, yes, we are evil, mean, greifing, criminal bastards that loot, pilliage, plunder etc. the hard-earned ISKs of the upper classes. We needn't have any illusions otherwise. But hey, if people who can afford multibillion ISK ravens don't bother to use their resources to take necessary precautions to stay safe, then their own greed is as much to blame.

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