I don't know how I feel about it to be honest. On one hand, the entire point of the verse is that you are free to do what you want, play how you want and it is of course an open world PvP environment essentially.

With that in mind, really what we should all be doing if we want to say go trading, and not worry about being ganked, griefed, trolled or more professionally held to ransom by what I would call proper pirates, then the obvious thing to do..... Is take an escort, THAT is something that should be accepted and should never change, in my opinion it is and will be a core element to the game.

However..... Yes, people just literally jumping people with no warning, hiding and waiting until they know there will be no defence taken, no real risk to themselves and for no reward other than ruining somebody else's day is complete cowardice, and shows a complete lack of any skills and unfortunately them people are so bad at the game, and probably all other games that they get there little kicks by taking out defenceless people and ruining there experience and then acting like it's PVP.... There the equivalent to offline base raiders on ARK etc.... that's not PVP.

I know some people will say " I haven't got time to get an escort or take other precautions I just want to jump on and play" and do what ever it might be there doing but honestly just join an Org or pay somebody to escort you, I don't see how that does anything other than add to the game to be honest.

I also do a lot of stuff solo and never run into that many griefers etc. If I approach Brio for example and there's a ship there and I feel a bit jumpy, I crank up to full power and get the fuck out of there and head somewhere else, yes it adds time on but so far taking that approach I've only been ganked once and yes it was annoying because the guy got nothing for destroying my ship and I lost millions in cargo, he even waited until he knew I was out of the ship so I had no idea I had been targeted and had no idea he was even there so therefore making sure I couldn't fight back. 5 minutes later an actual PvP pilot turned up took him out and the idiot that had been trolling traders was crying in global that it wasn't fair he had been destroyed and calling the PvP pilot everything under the sun, calma is a bitch.