I am very strongly of the opinion that Blocking aught to be reserved to COMMS ONLY.
Someone's language offends you, you aught not be forced to hear it.
Someone's gameplay offends you, it is just too bad.
Or even better, the much spoken by the wise, most massively maligned by the weak, yet most true 2 words in this game : "Git Gud".
Then you wont have to block people. You will have a toolset both in ship loadout and knowhow to handle all of these situations.
And you need to accept the fact also, that sometimes you just wont be able to do certain things, from time-to-time you WILL lose a ship. Its Elite: Dangerous not Elite:Carebear.
Instancing aught not be affected at all. Not fair for anyone. People who want to blockade a system have as much right to that as people who want to pass the blockade. For BGS/PP this is even more important that a CG.
And there have been a lot of things Frontier have done to exacerbate ganking situation. Never used to be really bad, many traders told tales of ne'er seeing a gank ship at CGs.
Lets look at these :
Nerfing of Eravate by introduction of "Noob" systems. People who would otherwise seal club need to go somewhere else. Also destroyed Adle's Armada reason for existence, without even a single word to us, though one of the oldest PG in the game. Thanks Frontier. Whole game area round there is now a wasteland whereas before totally thriving area. Anyway all the folks who used to go there need to go somewhere else and options are rather more limited now. Making Trade CGs an attractive target.
Lack of Weekly CGs. No reason we cant have that in parallel with interstellar initiatives. Was good to tour the galaxy to a new place most weeks. No weekly CG focuses the PvP onto Shinrarta and Deciat making the experience for a lot of players much "sharper".
Lack of Combat-Focused CGs. Hunters often prefer attack BH rather than traders. Where are the combat CGs ?
Lack of any updates this year for Veteran Players. No new ships, no new challenges. Nothing to do but to go ganking. Would it REALLY have been so much trouble to have artist and dev spend a month making a new ship for us, or 2? Something good for veteran players, doesn't need to be massive. Or even let us know the Fleet Carrier will be and have us spend the time doing some grinding for that rather than vaporizing scrubs. Just have something for Veterans to work towards.
Signing off,
CMDR Gavin786