Suicide ganking improvements
August 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments
The high-sec space of Eve Online was allways ment to be secure for the players, but lately we have seen more and more suicide ganking, especially in the lower security of high security, in 0.5 and 0.6. CCP are now working with new tweaks to improve the experience for the players and make it harder for the suicide gankers.
One of the biggest problems is that CONCORD has been too slow to actually save people in high sec, but this will now improve. CONCORD will arrive quicker if you are attacked, with a basic fleet of two frigates and one battleship. The frigs will lock the aggressor down quickly, while the battleships starts up it’s guns and you can wave goodbye.
The other improvement CCP is planning is the security hit gankers get. So far the security penalty for podding a fellow player has been flat across all space except 0.0, but this will change to encourage fighting PvP in low security space where it belongs. If you pod someone in 1.0 it will take give you a lot larger hit on your security rating than if you do it in 0.1. So far it is not known when these changes will be implemented and go live.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am (#)
In my honest opinion, the new eve concord response is a severe down fall. consider this, before this patch was released the cost of ice was fairly consistent at 150,000 isk, immediately after the patch, the concord response to high sec gank pirates eliminated all fear miners had of pirates essentially. there for having your entire crew there to mine/haul and protect was no longer necessary. macro miners now have the run of the land so to speak. Any one who mined ice before the patch knows that a good tank skill would hold off pirates till concord appeared, but nothing was better then having your crew there to protect you as in 0.0 or low sec, but with less equipment and skill required. At the moment I simply cannot justify spending my time on 60-75k per block. Pirates made ice mining worth while and rewarding, Pirates also brought corps together in opps for the ice/ore doing what so many other endeavors can’t do.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:41 pm (#)
i asked why the game wont play on my pc cause every time i bubble click it goes to the main menu of the game and i put my password and id log in name and a popup says that a new round will start at 11. 5th and says that i cant get on it. so whats wrong with it
February 9th, 2009 at 9:14 pm (#)
I have never been suicide ganked so no idea if this is as helpful as it may seem. I cannot see how its harmful.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 am (#)
i think it vill help but probelly not in the long run since gankers may come en large fleet liike pirate does in a near by system i live in im a ganker too when im bored from time to time so im not that happy about it. :/