Wormholes

Anyone ever experience an extra amount of traffic during Hulkageddon? Seems WHs would be a pretty decent target.

They aren't already? It takes just as long to find miners before and after miners during Hulkageddon. Only a dumbass would waste time looking for hulks in wspace when they can gank one by warping to the top belt in any highsec.

You're kidding, right? WH's are a horrible target. You bring a few ships in hulk-hunting, there's a very good chance they'll never make it back to high sec.

And just to echo the above, this doesn't affect us. At all. I literally could not care less what happens in high sec. If every high sec ship in the game spontaneously combusted tomorrow, I'd probably lol.

I'd dance a jig! Especially the mission fit and pvp t3's! You know how much that would push the prices up for our parts!?!

This man speak the truth

Yeah. The only reason I was asking is because I do find myself only checking d-scan every 3-5 minutes while mining Gravs. I'm in a C1 with lowsec static so I don't get a lot of visitors.

I figured I couldn't be the only one letting my guard down on occasion. Of course I would still probably see the probes before they actually pinned me down though. Hopefully.

Lies.

You are quite safe mining in WH space. Keep doing it! Don't listen to the haters.

100% truth we respect minier and thier part of keep the economy run.

I can confirm, mining in a WH is safe.. i have yet to loose a hulk to a suicide ganker in a destroyer.. even after the buff to their damage.

ppl may make semi-sarcastic "w-space mining is safe" comments but, IMO, it **is** safer than highsec mining ... providing you do it properly.

If you're in a grav site then probes are needed to find you – either at the time or to locate the site beforehand.

If your intending attacker scans down the sites beforehand and waits or comes back then there’s not an awful lot you can do about that except be aligned, watchful, and cautious … and a stationary miner is not highly likely to get into warp before a covops frig gets a point on him (except if said frig is piloted by an incompetent like me). OFC DS-spamming is all you have to protect you against the incoming non-covops and even the most cautious miner will have trouble maintaining adequate frequency of DS checks for the long time you spend harvesting that high-end ore.

If your attacker has not pre-scanned the sites he does not need to have probes within your DS detection range for an awful long time. So, again your main protector is DS-spamming.

OFC, another element of “doing it properly” is the management of your wormholes. I usually mined when I had a very secure system. I would collapse the static and not activate the new one, and I would have no other active wormholes in-system. While mining I always had my scanner-dood cloaked with a max-range DS probe deployed … looking for new wormholes spawning and / or unexpected ships in system. If a new sig appeared I’d keep mining and he’d scan the sig to see if it was a new wormhole … all the while keeping a watch for any ships coming thru it. If an unexpected ship appeared, without a new WH spawning, it’d be everyone heading back to the POS right away … coz we got ourselves a camper.

My other observation, from my last few weeks of intensively hunting through low-end w-space, is that not an awful lot of w-space mining is going on out there. When I find an active system the activity is sleeper-killing 90+% of the time. The vast majority of the rest is industry / PI and twice they were harvesting gas. Only once, out of a hundred or so systems recently visited, have I found mining ships in space … and they packed up and logged just as I located the grav site

So, as for Hulkageddon impacting w-space miners - ROFL! Any w-space miner who gets caught is prolly dead anyways, whether or not hulkageddon is happening. The majority of ppl who do hulkageddon (rawrrr, moar, & yo ho ho) are usually not up to coping with w-space dynamics and I reckon the likelihood of them getting themselves killed, rather than their intended targets, is prolly pretty high. Yawn!!