In case you wonder why you get ganked in open
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Dont be mean. He's got a friend on a Discord who's a murder bot.
I like the rush. I also love the feeling of escaping a gank. It's kinda like Jeremy Clarkson doing his "loser" to Richard and James when he passes them in a faster car.
After switching to PC, I loved flying around in my unengineered Cobra with my mostly harmless combat rank and escaping every gank attempt on me. It's also a great way to earn respect in the ganking community.
I mean, G4NK have completely stopped trying to gank me because they've failed every single time.
Did I understand that people get ganked because reasons? Then complain that people play solo/pg as a result? Am I missing something?
That's a good summary I think.
People should be glad really. You can roleplay a competitive edgelord in Elite Dangerous as well. Proof it's a great sandbox.
I've thought of a nice name for these threads we're getting lately:For the harvesting of griefer tears of course .
Modium Chloride.
So what's the point of griefing 'cuz toys'? The one and only time I get griefed, was rocking a python with zero weapons (mining lasers don't count), all I had was limpets (going to mine) and was interdicted as soon as I got to Borann. Message asked for 32 T of cargo (clearly had no manifest scanner, no human interdicts for limpets, no even NPCs do) and proceeded to shoot. I jumped back into SC only to get interdicted again where I immediately "clogged" if that's what you want to call it.
In short, not sure how a defenseless ship made for a good challenge or as the OP put it, make their 'own toys".
In short, not sure how a defenseless ship made for a good challenge or as the OP put it, make their 'own toys".
"In case you wonder why you get ganked in open"
I don't. I don't wonder. I don't get ganked. I fly around in a tiny ship, at Deciat/Felicity with the ship ID being "GANKME". I bump into plasma FDLs flying in wings and wiggle my tail in front of them. Nothing happens. What does it take to be ganked? I used to get ganked back when I started playing the game. Is it because I've become too good at defending myself? Is it because I'm no longer a baby seal? Can I assume that a clean FDL hanging above Felicity's hangout is a ganker I can kill? Not really. So what do I do?
I don't. I don't wonder. I don't get ganked. I fly around in a tiny ship, at Deciat/Felicity with the ship ID being "GANKME". I bump into plasma FDLs flying in wings and wiggle my tail in front of them. Nothing happens. What does it take to be ganked? I used to get ganked back when I started playing the game. Is it because I've become too good at defending myself? Is it because I'm no longer a baby seal? Can I assume that a clean FDL hanging above Felicity's hangout is a ganker I can kill? Not really. So what do I do?
I don't hear this very often: escaping a gank earns respect from gankers. I thought it was a way to trigger them, which is another reason I play in open.
Many "gankers" aren't looking for a challenge so much as cheap thrills through neutralizing weaker human opponents.
Same could be said of bullies IRL.
My cap's off to role-playing pirates and PvP players seeking actual in-game challenges, rare as those might be.
Plenty of inhabited systems that are out of the powerplay bubble. I've been mucking around in a little cluster of systems that seem to get zero traffic whatsoever for days on end, including some nice relatively high-population ones. sure, it's a 60ly trip to the nearest high-tech economy if a mission wants me to source consumer technology or nonlethal weapons or whatever, but I've just taken to keeping a stash of those on my carrier.
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