It looks like CCP have turned their eye to EVE security, meaning CONCORD response and standings hits. There’s a lot of changes that they’re looking at, but one that caught my eye:
In addition, the highly requested feature of removal of insurance in CONCORD related events will be implemented in the near future.
Most people who play EVE will probably know exactly what type of player that change is going to affect the most. Click here for the full dev blog contents.
Winterblink 
Yay, I’m all for Suicide ganking and whatnot in 0.0 and low sec 🙂
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And the sky is falling crowd is yelling ‘OMG Eve is turning into wow’ :-).
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Yeah, General Discussions has been pretty entertaining today. 🙂
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I’m in favor of all the changes CCP described, even having been one of “those kind of players” . I’m not convinced the changes will eliminate suicide ganking–it depends on how much faster Concord’s response is. It seems that it’s going to force them to take a much bigger risk of loss and be far more discriminating about their targets, though.
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Mynxee, agreed that suicide ganking will not disappear, nor should it in my view. The proposed system would create a scenario where ganks won’t be so random and haphazard, they’ll need more preparation, more thought behind the acts. At least I hope that will be the case.
Some big changes announced in the game lately. Interesting times.
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Oh I’m in no way hoping this eradicates suicide ganking. It definitely keeps things from being AFK Online. I may not be one of those kinds of players, but I’m sure as hell not hoping they disappear from the game.
Risk vs Reward, as James says they’ll definitely have to plan ahead and pick their battles instead of going for the easy random gank.
But as with any proposed change, it’ll be interesting to see how players adapt down the road.
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I come by on a tangent. To say hello!
Hi!
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Agreed I DO NOT want people to think that AFk is the way to fly through empire. What I do see is an evolving pattern whereby pilots HAVE to pay attention. If your in FW, nowhere is safe, If you are in 0.0 or low sec same thing. Just the random attacks against new players sucks, and if we get more players the fun continues.
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So is this going to be the end of Jihadswarm or do you think they’ll still do it sometimes on principle? … Come to think of it, is Jihadswarm even going on anymore? (Not a miner.)
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I doubt it’ll be the end of jihadswarm (hell I had no idea it was still going really). There will still be suicide ganking, people will just be picking their targets better to maximize profit.
Regardless of what people think of it, it definitely adds a certain flavor to EVE that you won’t find in a lot of MMOs out there 😀
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