08-14-2008, 04:12 PM
Hi,
I have a simpler criterion: if the sole purpose of an action is to irritate another player, then that action is ganking. A trivial example: a player is fishing. You're bored, so you place your avatar on top of that player's float every time he casts, thus preventing him from getting the visual feedback of a strike. Your actions have absolutely no rational within the context of the game, you're simply being an asshole. That is ganking.
As to the RL examples some people have given, face-to-face ganking will often result in fist-to-face reply. There are few who have the guts for that. But online, it's easy to have big balls.
--Pete
Quote:I think we are meaning different things by "ganking".Well said over all. Even attacks by enemies many level higher do not, IMO, constitute ganking.
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I have a simpler criterion: if the sole purpose of an action is to irritate another player, then that action is ganking. A trivial example: a player is fishing. You're bored, so you place your avatar on top of that player's float every time he casts, thus preventing him from getting the visual feedback of a strike. Your actions have absolutely no rational within the context of the game, you're simply being an asshole. That is ganking.
As to the RL examples some people have given, face-to-face ganking will often result in fist-to-face reply. There are few who have the guts for that. But online, it's easy to have big balls.
--Pete
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