Most bears (Grizzly, Polar, European Brown) run faster than a man. So if you are in the range of a hungry bear, you are out of luck. This is the fatalist approach of the miners who are aware of the existence of Damage Control II module but refuse to use it. "If someone wants to gank me, he will succeed."
Both statements are equally true. However we know the saying "you don't need to outrun the bear, only the slowest man around". The bear doesn't want to eat you, it just wants to eat. It won't make the extra effort to catch you if there is an easier prey or closer threat.
There are lot of situations where the above is naturally applied. Does seatbelt protects from all accidents? No, but it saves from many, so it's better to use it. Does washing your hands before eating stops every bacteria from entering your body? No, but it stops a lot. Someone claiming "I don't wash my hands because bacteria can get in anyway" would be laughed.
However social people see a huge difference where there is none: between the human opponent and the bear or bacteria. They implicitly assume that the human opponent is after them. As an active ganker and member of the New Order, I can guarantee that we can't care less about your name - unless you walked an extra mile to make us care, like Moonsong Miner. We are ganking barges, not people. If it is not on the list on the permit holder (set to blue) the scout approaches. If it doesn't warp off (hard when the player is AFK), it will be ganked.
How does tank comes to the picture? Simple: if you have a tanked Retriever, solo gankers can't gank you. Can they form a fleet and gank you? Can they upgrade to a Vexor? Yes they can. Will they when the next belt has an untanked Hulk, two Retrievers and an 3 bot Covetors filling and Orca? Kidding?
Gank fleets can indeed destroy targets at will. But will a 5-man fleet bother with a T1 barge when it can hit T2 exhumers? The chance of your Retriever be hit by a fleet is the same as PL hotdroping supers on your frigate roam. Finally, Procurer/skiff is out of range even for fleets. While I can imagine some extremely obnoxious New Order hater be ganked in a Skiff, I've yet to see a single Skiff kill.
I see that I avoid most traps simply by not being social. For me a ganking catalyst is no different from an equal DPS belt rat. If I can tank it, I do, if I can't, I don't go there.
Both statements are equally true. However we know the saying "you don't need to outrun the bear, only the slowest man around". The bear doesn't want to eat you, it just wants to eat. It won't make the extra effort to catch you if there is an easier prey or closer threat.
There are lot of situations where the above is naturally applied. Does seatbelt protects from all accidents? No, but it saves from many, so it's better to use it. Does washing your hands before eating stops every bacteria from entering your body? No, but it stops a lot. Someone claiming "I don't wash my hands because bacteria can get in anyway" would be laughed.
However social people see a huge difference where there is none: between the human opponent and the bear or bacteria. They implicitly assume that the human opponent is after them. As an active ganker and member of the New Order, I can guarantee that we can't care less about your name - unless you walked an extra mile to make us care, like Moonsong Miner. We are ganking barges, not people. If it is not on the list on the permit holder (set to blue) the scout approaches. If it doesn't warp off (hard when the player is AFK), it will be ganked.
How does tank comes to the picture? Simple: if you have a tanked Retriever, solo gankers can't gank you. Can they form a fleet and gank you? Can they upgrade to a Vexor? Yes they can. Will they when the next belt has an untanked Hulk, two Retrievers and an 3 bot Covetors filling and Orca? Kidding?
Gank fleets can indeed destroy targets at will. But will a 5-man fleet bother with a T1 barge when it can hit T2 exhumers? The chance of your Retriever be hit by a fleet is the same as PL hotdroping supers on your frigate roam. Finally, Procurer/skiff is out of range even for fleets. While I can imagine some extremely obnoxious New Order hater be ganked in a Skiff, I've yet to see a single Skiff kill.
I see that I avoid most traps simply by not being social. For me a ganking catalyst is no different from an equal DPS belt rat. If I can tank it, I do, if I can't, I don't go there.
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