EVE General Discussion

Yes this is another High sec miner post but from a miners point of view. Us miners don’t get a lot of tears from other players unless it’s a failed gank and the gankers cry in local that its not fair that concord blew them up but it happens. One other way we get to feed on tears is the forum oh the awesome forum posts of characters like James 312 or something like that....... I wonder if all the players who post on these forums realize that when they cry about high sec miners they are actually feeding us tears while we laugh at them from our cozy little space guarded by concord.I am actually writing this as I mine since AFK mining is the way to go IMO.


Lets see I usually play another game or finish some financials from work or even play with my daughters while I mine but in the end I make bank no matter what happens to my ship :) I recently commented on a post about miners and ganking and I agree with some of the comments such as hoping that all the miners ragequit. That would be awesome as that just leaves more roids for us AFK miners because the damn belts were empty last night so I had to go mine ice. In all honesty hulkageddon has been great for sales keep blowing up those ships some of us are actually making a profit.

I see only 2 reasons for the hate towards miners.
1. jealousy This is simple, there is a group of players who make alot of isk with no risk and its perfectly legal so ganker says thats not fair I should be able to do that also...well guess what you can and most likely do but dont tell anyone that you do.

2. Boredom Low and null sec has become blob heaven or just too much risk for a solo miner.

I would discuss bots but I dont use them and those that do take the ultimate risk IMO because they risk getting banned (how many PVPers would still PVP if the ban hammer was hanging over them but they could make a ton of isk and a generally short time period hmmmm.).

In conclusion you can troll this post make fun of my grammar and typos or touch yourself I dont really care and thats what everyone needs to understand, Miners dont give a flying monkeys ass if you cry about them its like standing in the middle of the forest all by yourself and yelling I hate everyone. who gives a @#$%. Keep buying our stuff on the market though please we do appreciate your business.

Please continue to cry about miners on the forums its great reading when im stuck at work.

They see us minin', they be hatin'

you missed the main reason: profit

goons did the math and its profitable for them, and so they contract out the legwork.

Emergent gameplay.

That is one stated reason the Goons are funding ganking, and ganking high sec miners is to further the ends of the Goons leadership in terms of economic reasons. The hate and vitriol is the method the Goon leadership is using to foster the drive for people to go out and gank. That and some ISK.

They've also expanded hulkageddon to include mining barges.

All of which was discussed in When does all the ganking make mining worth it? about there <--.

There we go, fixed it for you. We'll just pretend you did!

Yes, very probable. I don't pretend to understand what the Goons are doing, or anyone else is, in terms of all these grand schemes and plans. It's all way over my head!

I can process enough minerals to meet my needs, so I haven't really looked at mineral prices.

i have a theory, but i won't share it because it's both baseless and very likely wrong.
some thing tells me there's more than goons at work perhaps, the pyerite spike today seems a bit odd but i'll leave that one to be puzzled out by better men than myself.

Protip: You aren't making a lot of money, just more than you should be for the risk involved and the "skill" required.

With gank ships being cheap, and on top of that being paid back and more, combined with the potential of high value salvage providing plenty of incentive to gank these ships, further evidenced by the number of people doing so, how do you conclude that the risk is too low for the reward?