I never ranked in civilized, never had a long spat of eq-hunting of civilized, etc. My only civilized activities are using the roads (not hunting on them, but a beeline from A to B) and spending time in cabals, whether it's raiding or retrieving.

I don't see why not counting the cabal spaces against rangers is a non-starter. I'm not talking about any civilized, just specifically about cabal spaces.