Board vets ruin the experience

Edit; has the rant flair for a reason please don’t take this post too seriously.

Obviously this is a salt rant but seriously sometimes I feel like the old heads in this game are jaded and board af and so they have nothing else to do but farm the spectacle of ships blowing up regardless of effort or escalation.

I lost a bit under 100M today to two low sec gate camps coming out of Jita. Wanted to move a mining barge into a little WH setup so I figured id buy the barge, fly through high sec to the system containing our WH chain and head home. Both attempts I landed in two separate gate camps.

I get it, open world pvp game, nothing is safe and all that etc etc.

But geez man, Im certain that my barges didn't mean anything to those gankers isk wise. The value was so low. What I was most frustraited about was being sent back to home station and having to re-reoute to come all the way back out to jita, only to be gate ganked on a different route on the way out.

Again, i know its the name of the game but honestly that shit is just lame. It's not gameplay its griefing. I could see if I was flying an expensive ship, or I had expensive cargo, or I was in sov space etc.

Nah, this is a game where its literally ok to camp the trade hub with impunity, so basically if you are a low isk pilot or new at all you have this tangible barrier for progression that exist for no other reason than because some player who has been around longer than you has run out of content and has nothing else better to do than to sit on a gate and gank ships that literally cant fight back.

You are not a cool space pirate for popping miners coming and going, you are not boba fett because you gank non combat ships just for the sake of it. At least target ships that actually have valuable loot. Instead you are getting rocks off JUST PURELY off of causing a set back in another player.

I like EvE, will keep playing, im sure it wont be the last time I die to a gate camp.
KoS ganking anything that moves just for the fuck of it even if its not profitable is griefing, especially when its happening outside of a trade hub that you mostly cant avoid. Some games aren't newb friendly, and thats fine. But eve is actively newb hostile, I can't ever convince any of my friends to play this game and they all look at me like some sort of masochist for liking it.