Crime & Punishment

The problem is once Hulkageddon starts, the Hulk pilots will simply switch to Covetors or super-slow-mining Industrials to mitigate their loses. Therefore, it's not like the gankers have any choice in the matter. Although, ganking a bunch of freighters with tons of goodies will become more common now that we have tier 3 battlecruisers with battleship DPS.

Also, I agree with your post that there are too many miners out there that simply dump their minerals into the market carelessly and in mass. This reduces the value of the minerals (which is already added to the list of **** that we already know). If more miners were to simply (at least voluntarily) dump less minerals into the market at prices that are higher than the regional average (and not at the first available buy order they see) then we can see prices go up. But unfortunately, too many miners have become impatient and wouldn't want to wait a single week to wait for a sell order to clear out and they just continuously dump the minerals in mass with no control.

As for me, I have control. I am careful not to sell too many minerals in my local market and I sell them with the highest price tolerable. But for now, since Hulkageddon is coming this February (based on the forums discussions), I have been focusing my minerals in the production of Destroyers and their respective modules. Now that Dessies no longer suffer the pains of the RoF penalty, I expect to see gankers lining up for these things. And if I want to buy minerals for production, then I am careful not to price my buy orders too low because I like to give a little more to the miners who put in effort to get them.

That is why you need to do it year round...

Wow so wrong.

Why would a Hulk need a cap recharger. It could easily mine a full cargo hold with 3 Invul feilds going the whole time. That is if you have the basic energy managment skills. Even then unless you are in some really deep **** you don't need need all three.

Trit was at 11.40 to 12.15 when I started palying, want to bet it goes past that?

Too bad I make my own gankboats, br0. Also, who said concord? Just join an indy corp (any corp that's spamming invites) and get some nice green on green action going

also I don't think people care about min prices, hulkageddon will have bounties funded by mittens' 76 tek moons as does the ice interdiction. You lose.

Most people aren't going to waste the time or sec. Whether it's a dedicated character or not. Suiciding barges/exhumers in empire is hardly a reason for most spinners to bother undocking and/or logging on a trash alt. Effort vs. reward (in isk or tears) is just not there. But it's cute to see it continue.

Goonswarm's Ice Interdiction is focused primarily on mackinaws mining blue ice in Gallente Hi-sec, it has however managed to snag quite a few Hulks as collateral damage:

https://killboard.goonfleet.com/shrugged.html

As you can see, in the two months the Ice Interdiction has been active, over 600 hulks have been destroyed, as well as 1400 mackinaws. Now imagine if Hulkageddon is on-going while Ice Interdiction is active.

There are several factors that may make this Hulkageddon one to remember, interdiction's impact is just one of them.

And as you can see, Interdiction is alive and well despite the removal of insurance from Concord kills... just like I said it would.

Yes, the destroyer buff makes anyone who isn't lower than -5.0 a gank machine at very little cost. There are Catalyst gank fits that can do about 683 dps.

CCP also upped the amount of salvage that drops off of player wrecks, providing another source of income.

Historically, most gankers are taking out high value targets with the potential payout far greater than their ship value. Removing insurance generally is still going to leave the balance on the side of the ganker, it's just that the few "isk conscious" gankers have to take that into account now.

"Xenuria" THE failure of the EVE Community.

Fixed the title for you.