The way you are

[Benjamin]

Gotta say, this problem might actually be more localised than you think. I've never ganked someone to my knowledge, and never been ganked (except for when my hessian goes to gamma, but I'm pretty sure the point of going to gamma IS to get ganked, and see how long you can stay alive for). I've sat out of fights to balance them, but it's never been a 'jeez guys way to go overboard!' thing, it always comes out of a discussion in group or something, where we decide however many of us should sit it out.
But I think the main reason for this is that I don't have an Outcast, Corsair, Bounty Hunter, Order or Liberty char. Not exactly sure why stuff localises around those guys like it does, but there you go.

It can also be a problem RP wise. I mean, the concept of not ganking, whilst I definitely approve of it, is oorp. I mean it's okay for a cap to be all "Five minutes of fuel from me costs more than that entire ship" or whatever, but if you're in 7 fighters and you run in to 3, it can be pretty hard to make convincing excuses after the first few times, when you know that realistically you should all be engaging.
That said, it does tend to be the people who care the least about RP that jump in on the ganks, so I guess that's not really a problem.

But yeah, some players will just do anything to win. Gank, cherry pick guns with, at best, cursory respect to RP, shoot wings off their ships, whatever. Bad eggs. They know who they are and they know what they're doing. We can show new players that that's not a good way to be, but feels like you can't get the ones who are choosing to be like that.

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