Hi
Not that I think gankstering should be banned from open or anything.
Na!...it adds a touch of danger, but is easily avoided once you've gotten accustomed to where the gangsters usually hang out in open, and there's always solo or pg.
In a way it's self regulating imho, the more the gankers frequent certain areas the more some players turn to solo in those areas....they eventually starve themselves to death!.

I
sometimes do some open play just to test out my skills at evasion in some systems, I'm not always successful though.

... I
do sometimes play in open when out exploring, but I've never usually seen another player in those areas, at least in open. I think it's only been once that I've seen a players carrier in one of those areas I've been exploring in though.
Just a note...my 'forays' into the bubble the other day on a curiosity self imposed mission (sort of)...I wanted to find out
why the system Core System Sector IR-W C1-25 hadn't been claimed by anybody. It's quite close relatively speaking to SOL, all the systems (in a large area) around SOL have been claimed, it's just this one that stands out from the rest on the galactic map due to it's singular position when looking at the map in 'unclaimed' mode.
Anyway, I landed at a couple of claimed / inhabited systems in close proximity to this system and tried to claim it (a few times) just out of curiosity, the menus etc. all started to work as usual until the final claim system showed up, but it wouldn't let you proceed any further. I'm not sure why as the system shows up as unclaimed initially, and leads one to think it's possible to claim it.
I wonder why?...it could be a bugged system and Frontier haven't perhaps fixed it...or some other reason that I just haven't figured out yet!
If anybody knows the real reason why this system is unclaimable perhaps you'd let us know, it would at least solve this 'mystery'.
What I'm doing Today...collecting some commodities for my 'hub' but only if they happen to turn up at stations I'm doing some missions for. So I'm mission running at the moment, I might drop into Shinrarta and get that Corsair (or at least buy it with arx from there) but there's a couple of my ships I also want to upgrade with various modules really.
I'm still 'cleaning out' unwanted (at the moment) commodities in my carrier, so I might also look around on the galactic map for player stations still needing stuff for their builds, and get rid of some items that way.
Unrelated to the game...we ate some mangetout peas and potatoes grown in our veggie plots yesterday, lovely!

Tomatoes in the greenhouse are growing great but none ready to pick yet, also courgettes growing well, cucumbers, lettuce, spring onions and runner beans should be ready in a few weeks time.
It's taking a lot of effort keeping them watered though, so I'm having to top up the water butts weekly....we need a few days of gentle steady rain!
These are my arch enemy's at the moment!....

...
Jack
