EVE General Discussion

Yeah all those miners should be jumping with glee! Go mine like crazy for a few weeks and then stop for Hulkageddon. About half way through sell your minerals - make money. Really its almost worth stock piling your minerals for a year and wait toll the 'geggen comes round. I certainly am hoping to profit from a combination of destroyer/hulk and mineral sales.

24th of April right after Jita gets burned to the ground (apparently).

Or on the other side of the coin they've planned it to be exactly at that point straight after the gunmining nerf and Jita burn when mineral prices are expected to spike upward as people live off their depleting reserves.

The logical response would be to go out and mine, the logical counter would be host Hulkageddon right there and then for maximum tears/exposure/internets fame and attentions. The latter of which certain people seem to constantly be whoring themselves out for.


So dock your barges, take a couple of weeks off, scout out your new mining homes and plan for your large scale post HG ops where you can cash in on the mineral prices. Laugh at the idiots who didn't listen and got their shiny barges blown up by Thrasher fleets and be safe knowing some guys are roaming around frustrated they didn't get to harvest your tears*.


To answer your question, yes, it's very logical from their perspective.




*No really, the amount of tears Carebears can harvest by denying people kills is extraordinary.

I shall now explain it in one sentence: The people doing the killing are not the people that care about cheap prices on ships, etc.

In a world full of pirates robbing each other every second it's completely logical to remove the farmers sowing the seeds and harvesting the crops, 'cause it's so cool to hate them.

I hope I am around to see the last hulk burned by laser fire, only to notice people starting to mine in frigates and battleships again.

Don't know about the rest of you but I already made money off of the burn Jita and hulkagedon people before it started .

It is right after "Burn Jita", but I think that's on 28th April, as it's a Saturday. CBA to go C&P to confirm

I used my Mack for the first time in a year yesterday, then went AFK for 4 hours in space.. still got the Mack, so Tolle seems safe enough. AFK mining ftw..

To the OP,

There is undeniable logic behind Hulkageddon. You have to think about it for a while to see it. Hulkageddon offers rewards in many forms for those to achieve certain types of kills and number of kills, so there is incentive to kill mining ships even at the expense of a sec-hit. There is also the loot that is dropped whenever a Hulk is killed that are later sold to the market. And that is not including the salvage that comes from the wreck. Some Hulk pilots fit faction mods on their ships like ORE Strip Miners and others which grab the attention of seasoned gankers who scan their targets for profitable loot.

Then there is the fact that not all gankers are strictly pvp-focused pilots. A number of them are also miners themselves who want to drive prices back up for minerals and ultimately ships so that they can profit more. After all, they are gathering the minerals to either sell direct or use them to manufacture the ships needed to gank miners.

In regards to the sec status, it doesn't matter to be honest. All you need is a ganker alt that will definitely be a -10 character pretty soon. You then use your main to deliver the gank ship to a safespot in the system where your target is located and then swap ship with the ganker alt. Just remember that as soon as your -10 character boards the ship, you will need to haul ass and warp to your target before the local faction police arrives. No, your warp capabilities will not be disabled until you actually provoke Concord by ganking someone. Once you ganked someone, warp to safespot or dock up and wait for GCC timer to expire in 15 minutes. Rinse. Repeat. Profit.

Oh, don't forget to use your main character to pick up and salvage the loot left behind.

I can speculate as to why people think Hulkageddon may not have had a serious impact on the economy. Perhaps it already did and we didn't notice it because we have grown so accustomed to Hulkageddon and those who gank outside the event all year round that the prices have adjusted accordingly before anyone realized it and now we have this impression that Hulkageddon didn't make an impact. It's like the reverse form of when the media says that crime seems to increase during a full moon at night but experts point out that it's just the fact that the light from the moon just illuminates what was already there but didn't notice before.

That is not a risk (where the consequence is chance-based), it is a certainty, though.

Retards in abundance.