Ganking

[Jihadjoe]

I tend to prefer making fights close, if possible. This is because I like the tension of it. If the fight is a foregone conclusion in either direction, I get extremely bored and tend to wander off.

If there is no risk of losing, what's the point in participating? And by the same token, if there's no hope of winning, what purpose does fighting serve?

In previous versions of the mod skill was an equalising factor to numbers. The frequency of instakills was higher. "I will kill this guy" had the emphasis on "I" and could be done in the middle of a furball, if you had sufficient skill to do so.

Removing unwelcome interlopers took a matter of seconds, rather than spending twenty minutes whitling them down, only to watch them dock on a junker base (again).

With the various instakill weapons removed or made less effective, and caps more able to shoot at snubs than they previously had been (gunboats getting auto-aim for example), the balance has been tipped in favour of large numbers of large ships.

This leads to me getting bored as hell. However there are some situation in which I think it's justified. Defending capital planets for eample. There are situations in which I think it is not justified too, for example when you're on the offensive.

I would rather not get bored. I would rather feel that every fight is one I can potentially lose, or potentially win. I'm pretty certain that most people would agree that without risk or hope, it's boring.

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