Crime & Punishment

Like many other ways of living reasonably safely in Highsec, the purchase of a Permit is a no-brainer. You won't be ganked by the New Order - if you remain Code-compliant - and you may considerably lower your risk of being ganked by others if you follow the advice given out by many of my comrades-in-arms.

It staggers me that, no matter how much information and how many tools CCP and others provide, some citizens of Highsec just refuse to take any of it on board. And these are typically the folks who shout the loudest when the inevitable happens.

Despite the old NPE being a sort of 'Extreme Vetting' process, they still got through, but I think we all did it, because it was all there was! Now it's easier, and I suspect many of the Isk-grinding rabble will simply ignore most of it because there are plenty of guides out there about how to maximise your AFK-mining skills while being completely oblivious to the rest of the game.

Such people always remind me of race horses wearing blinkers (Am. blinders), except that race horses have a nobility about their bearing which is entirely absent from that of the Highsec miner.

I don't mine or gank them, so I have no dog it this fight. However, it seems to me that a measured response could be to re-balance the defensive capability of mining ships.

Allow miners to fly ships that up the cost for suicide ganking to a significant ratio of the cost of the mining ship. This would mean mining capability is sacrificed of course. Maybe this ends up costing more than the protection money. That should be an option in the game imo.

By a happy coincidence this has already been done in the form of the Procurer and Skiff.

Minittor, it isn't the game or its mechanics that need to change; it's the bloody miners.

But what about the dank ticks?

You'd spend all that on a barge and forgo a measly 10 million for a Permit? That's Isk-grubbing miserliness right there, miner.

I know it's going to be difficult for you to understand, but I tell you that there will be more rejoicing in MinerBumping over one miner who repents than over 99 Code compliants who've no need of repentance.

It's not about the money, miner; it's about the Code.

Sure you're not a miner.

They never are.

As for if anybody would gank it, for CODE cost isn't an issue.

They kill Skiffs routinely, you see.


There is a formula to determine how much DPS to bring to a hit, but that's Super Duper Top Secret.

The answer, tho, tends to be Lots.

See below

Well some miners dont think the permit stops you from ganking them. There is always excuse to gank a miner. Fit thats not correct, mining like a bot whatever. Your permit would be okay and worth the 10mil if it would prevent future ganks, but however as it does not many thinks it isnt worth paying for

That just shows how poor miners, and I guess humans more generally (when the miner is actually a human that is), are at judging risk. 10M ISK is a neglible amount of money for anyone but the greenest of pilots. Even if it has only a small percent chance of staving-off a black-swan event like the loss of a exhumer, a permit is worth it.

But they are right of course - a permit doesn't prevent future ganks. It is only part of the process of mining compliantly as outlined in the Code. I will assure you though that all permit holders get the benefit of the doubt from me because of the goodwill they are demonstrating by having a permit in thier bio and what that says about that miner's views on making highsec a better place. I will always attempt to engage them is conversation before I initiate an enforcement action and usually I am rewarded with some good natured banter with a like-minded player, an act of mercy I do not always offer unpermited miners. But if need be, and the permit holder is botting, AFK mining, not recognizing The Mittani as the rightful head of the CSM or is in violation of any other of the principles spelled out in the Code, I will reluctantly gank them. It is my sworn duty as an Agent of the Code and Knight of the New Order to do so.

You get more bees with honey, and miners who play along with the fun and get on board with the New Order and follow the Code are much less likely to suffer catastrophic and sudden disintegration of their mining equipment. But if you want to rebel, or claim that you are too "principled" to get a permit, well you will eventually become our content and be left impotently shaking your fist at us while we warp off with your hard earned loot and/or free flowing tears. Either way, the Code wins like it always does.