EVE General Discussion

Embrace user generated content - have fun with gankers is better than running a dungeon.

My fellow miners, I think we should see this as an opportunity. Lets not begrudge those who are participating in this crusade against miners. If you are a miner take a hulk, tank it well get a friend to remote rep you and go mine.

Take into consideration that gankers are bad at math and will still try to attack your lone hulk with only a couple of cruisers, this will result in a hilarious concordoken. One thing that you must always remember is that a good tank does not mean shield boosters. You want buffer and resistances. You want small shield extenders and invulnerability fields.

I know that this works because there are several people doing it and many gankers have died in the process. I think killboard links are not allowed in the forum, but if you google "Test Alliance's killboard" you will see one system in the campaign against ice miners that has a 30% efficiency. The reason for the low efficiency is that there was some resistance in that system. I would mention the Goon killboard, but that is a horribly designed killboard, and they are missing a lot more deaths than Test Alliance is. One of the problems with Concord is that they kill gankers so fast is hard to get in the killmail.

If you do decide to do this remember that anything can be killed in high sec. No matter how much buffer you get, how high your resistances get or how many people you get to rep you. However, there are two other characteristics of a ganker that work on your favor. Gankers are not only bad at math, they are also lazy {if they realize it takes having to put together battlecruisers or heaven forbid a battleship, they will probably leave you alone}. The last factor working for you is that gankers are disorganized. I have had a couple of battleships die while trying to gank me because the second battleship started to shoot 5 seconds after the first and allowed the reps to cycle.

So far 19 gankers have died and my little hulk is still mining ice. My guess is that now that I am posting in the Eve Forums, I have just painted a target on the hulk and will find a fleet of a dozen tempests waiting for me next time I take it out. That would be fun for me. As much as I have been trying to get them to attack me the last two nights that I have been out mining, they are now refusing to engage, which of course makes me sad.

Sup Druidrider heard you were fitting strip miners on your hulk c/d

Badposting at k.com just wasn't enough for you was it

Oh shoot. You've upset 'em Iceminer....

Must be quite the effective bunny. +1

Yes. It would be quite funny. Not sure I'd use them on ice miners though. A bit wasteful.

I'd probably find targets of relevance and importance. I dunno, G**ns?

Just saying.

No you didn't....

Very impressive. But, um, what kind of productivity do you have? You had to have ganked it to hell. You're using a Hulk for ice mining when it should be a Mack so your productivity is already poor. How many ice mining lasers are you using now? 2? You can't be mining much ice. And that's really Goon's goal, preventing the mining of ice, isn't it. So either way they win due to the current stat of barges. Then again, maybe that's the whole reason they're doing it so that they can get CCP to beef up barges so that Goon can fortify their bots.

True story: When deadspace stuff was released CCP themselves called them dungeons.

So there you go!

at OP: It always feels good to have someone fail while they are trying to kill you in EVE. Good job!

This escalation might be fun to watch...

If only iceminers would like....cooperate?

I love floating over with my damaged Mac to scrape up whats left of gankers tears/ship after they fail at being a douche