One little question

[Drake]

Ganking is never fun for the ganked side (and, in my opinion, not as much fun for the gankers). That there is major overkill... However, Keepers/nomads should expect odds to be somewhat against them at times (that is, 4 vs. 3, or 8 vs. 6, not 12 vs. 4 or anything like that, that's just absurdly gankish). They should also expect people to KoS them, often with little in the way of RP interaction... For example, many of my characters (and many characters in general) wouldn't try to communicate with nomads, period, never ever ever. They're to be run from, or they're to be killed.

All that also goes to similar factions, like Phantoms and Wilde. Lack of chatting and slightly unequal odds (though the nomad ships, at least, are somewhat buffed, IIRC, specifically because the devs expected unequal odds in many situations) is just something you have to deal with if you play a character in those factions.

Still, multiple capships and swarms of smaller ships versus just a few fighters is atrociously bad form.