EVE General Discussion

I Believe its pretty rational for a miner to not mine when people are out looking to gank them.

It's been suggested by the same people that have been saying miners want to be risk free.

All the interesting my aversion is bigger than your aversion aside, I have not had any of the gankers try to gank me mining with my Rokh. Unlike they did when I was in an unarmed Covetor. I shouted out even saying "Look at me I'm mining in HiSec!". If the issue is HiSec mining then this says more of the gankers aversion to risk or anything else.

Goon 101. Next comes the claim that he never intended to make sense.

No.

Re-read your compadre's blurb. You risk nothing but loss. It's like saying you can be purple without being a color.

The fact of the matter is that highsec miners are driven solely by their risk-averse nature. Unwilling to accept any sort of risk, unwilling to factor risk into their business plans, they engage in an activity that cannot create a real loss of isk (merely an opportunity cost) without intervention from other players. As a result, one can herd them like sheep merely by demonstrating the potential for loss: hulkageddon works because as highsec miners a are risk-averse they are unable to process the likelihood of a risk, and we see that constantly. Trying to explain to a highsec miner how he can reduce his risk of being ganked is often like trying to teach a dog calculus: it simply won't process it. The highsec miner will be told he can buffer tank - but will respond it is still possible to gank him therefore the buffer tank offers no advantage.

We see forms of this argument constantly. It doesn't matter to a highsec miner if he can easily make it so it requires three catalysts (or more) to gank him: since it's possible, it's the same as only needing one catalyst to gank him. To the thinking man, of course, these are different: you may have, on any particular day, a 5% chance of a loss of 300m if you are untanked while a .5% chance of a similar loss if you are, meaning your daily loss to ganking is reduced from 15m to 1.5m - an absolutely huge increase. However, to the highsec miner, all that they see is "300m loss". They can't deal with this, and therefore bleat that it must be made impossible to gank them. Now, many have processed this is unacceptable in this game, but the thrust of their argument is clear: they should not be exposed to risk and anything that does expose them to anything more than "asteroid hitting earth tomorrow" levels of risk is unacceptable. If it's reduced to that, well, they're willing to compromise.