This has been a long time coming. CCP is proposing changes to the infamous tactic known as suicide ganking. For those of you who do not know what this tactic is all about, let me explain.
Put simply, a group of people will fit out a gang of T1 ships and attempt to destroy a target in high security space before Concord will destroy them. As it would happen, mining barges, freighters and general hauling ships are the preferred targets and the contents of the ships would be worth more that the lost ships on the gank gang. The gank gang would recover their losses from the insurance payouts as well as the loot. As you can see, this can be very profitable.
The proposed changes will result in safer high security systems. I would recommend that you read the entire dev blog for more information, both carebears and suicide gankers alike. I myself have read the blog and I welcome the changes as it balances the risk versus rewards concept that EVE entails.
You can read the entire dev blog here:
http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=577
That being said, I guess I will be spending more time reading about these changes and the forums drama as it unfolds this week. Damn, and I thought I was getting caught up on my forums reading.
