Ships & Modules

If you put Damage Control II and Reinforced Bulkhead II on a Covetor then you have 11,586 EHP and about 90% the mining rate of a Hulk.

For something like a tenth the price? (Last time I looked, ship prices are all over the place.)

Plus the Covetor pays out semi-decent insurance.

WHY are people using Hulks?

They are next to worthless unless you only lose one for every, well, more than 1 billion ISK mined.

Covetors still get ganked.

Honestly, I don't know why people take part in Hulkageddon when it's blatantly an attempt at market manipulation, and both the miners and the gankers suffer a loss.

I'm not even a bloody miner and I agree with this. Why is a mining ship more expensive than a battleship when it's not even capable of pulling in the same isk/hour (as running missions/incursions)? Isk/hour is a hulk's supposed purpose, while combat is a battleship's supposed purpose.

Even I need to admit this is a better option with the upcoming patch considerations.. then again I also noticed that they jumped in price about $10 million isk since this morning. The BPO was floating around 2.2 billion last I saw.

Good question.

The answer is to pay several months real world money ot CCP to fly a hulk, only to be tied down to an asteroid belt like a goat waiting to die (the scene in Jurrasic Park comes to mind) and generate a killmail for some other risk adverse dude flying super cheap gank boats (lol 2 destroyers = zero loss even without insurance) . AKA, your only purpose is to generate killmails in a poorly designed over priced ship doing the most boring profession in game.

Best way to balance it out since no one wants to see the hulk get a buff (that is, non miners) is to bring the freighters and jump freighters down to the effective hitpoint level of a hulk since non-combant ships are not ment to have them. If a ship that cannot even fit modules gets a thicker buffer, then why should the hulk even be required to fit modules to get a better buffer? Bring it down to require at least 2 destroyers for a freighter and 6 for a JF, balances everything out.

Oh, and reduce the current tank on the barges / exhumers to at least 1/10th its current total. This is to force people to stop mining, gankers get their killmails and in the process shoot themselves in the foot since no one will be able to mine minerals. You know that theory, about having too many predators in a given area will eventually kill off the prey...yeah that is EVE precisely since everyone wants to be the wolf who consider the miners to be chickens and sheep.

And an interesting thing to also think about, the basic thought is that a miner should use their brain and be proactive to keep themselves alive...means the pilot should take the necessary steps and CCP doesn't need to buff hulks. Since so many people are using that line of thought...un-nerf titans since the whiners can't cope and use their own brains to counter Titans. They didn't need a nerf, since the pilots in sub cap ships can't figure out how to counter them just as much as a miner needs to counter getting ganked themselves...in both cases CCP doesn't need to step in at all. Logic! Un-nerf Titans and let the players deal with the issues...plus the whines it generates are just erotic to listen to

Because it will effortlessly pay itself back so the miners think it's more than worth the extra cost, and because you're comparing apples and carburettors — the Hulk cannot run missions and incursions, and the mission-BS cannot mine. They aren't really opposed by default.

The Hulk has superior headlights.

There's your answer.

Using a Covetor would only be more profitable if you regularly get ganked, and if that is the case then the player in question needs to rethink how they play the game.

Miners, trolled by CCP for years.

And there it is.

There it ******* is.

Miners want to engage in riskless activity to grow their wallets while they are AFK.

This does not come down to personal playstyle choices. It comes down to laziness, greed, and risk aversion of sickening proportions.