(01-13-2025, 08:35 AM)Culbrelai Wrote: Good clarification, there's a been sort of chilling effect on pvp of late due to the threat of gank sanctions.
Here's another case to consider.
A pirate cruiser comes upon a transport. Transport refuses to pay. Cruiser attacks. Three allied bombers show up to defend the transport. Or two gunboats and a bomber, etcetera. Is that a gank? If they do not all attack, the transport will likely die regardless of what it is (except perhaps barge, lol). And the transport probably will die anyway with three bombers fighting the cruiser if the cruiser focuses the transport.
This isn't an official position, but I'd personally say that we've been aiming to avoid sanctioning cases that are so close that some guy could pull off winning - gank is subjective enough without trying to split hairs. We also consider who was doing the flying on both sides, and what each side knew about the other - for example, say that Haste, Wesker, and Antonio were in the bombers and decided to bully me (a very below average cruiser guy), or god forbid some completely new player that just bought a cool new cruiser - and they knew it but decided to proceed to no-damage 100% disrespect speedrun, that would be a very compelling factor in trying to determine if it's a problem (intentional abuse of newbies is an entirely different and also very undesirable thing). Conversely, if the bombers were completely new, and the Cruiser was flown by some super awesome ace, we wouldn't consider that to be a gank at all. Thankfully, these cases will be pretty rare and escorts will either be nearby or already with the transport - so the pirate will know the risks.
