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Maybe a slight exaggeration by using the word 'massive', but there's not all that many entities in game capable of buying up 30-50b ISK worth of a single hull type. I'm pretty sure we're looking at that level based on the price hike.

There might be a thousand individual players that *could* afford that, a hundred that regularly carry enough ISK to do it without hurting badly, and a much smaller number of alliances.

Maybe a slight exaggeration by using the word 'massive', but there's not all that many entities in game capable of buying up 30-50b ISK worth of a single hull type. I'm pretty sure we're looking at that level based on the price hike.

There might be a thousand individual players that *could* afford that, a hundred that regularly carry enough ISK to do it without hurting badly, and a much smaller number of alliances.

Maybe a slight exaggeration by using the word 'massive', but there's not all that many entities in game capable of buying up 30-50b ISK worth of a single hull type. I'm pretty sure we're looking at that level based on the price hike.

There might be a thousand individual players that *could* afford that, a hundred that regularly carry enough ISK to do it without hurting badly, and a much smaller number of alliances.

I only have one question to you Goons.

Why do you kill independent real players in the Caldari ice belts. but leave the botting fleets with the freighters behind them alone?


Seriously, I just don't get it. If you want to destroy EVE as a game, you only need to keep on targeting normal players for long enough. There is the saying don't fly what you can't afford to lose, but let's get real here - most veterans many years ago stopped having any real risk at all in pvp, because the ship cost nothing, the implants cost nothing, and if you lose everything so what, plenty more in the hangar. The same does not go for new players, particularly miners in their first barge or their first ever exhumer. When you gank those people, you risk them quitting the game - I know it, I've seen it, and I miss my friends who walked out of EVE never to return. You may well say "good riddance plenty more" ... but that's the problem, there simply are not that many people interested in an old game where there are precious few powerblocks, where you can't fly the big ships for years, and newbie ships mean nothing in sov warfare. A thousand rifters really can't hurt a nyx.

So by all means go have fun, mess with ice prices. But come on ... use your brains. If someone is obviously new or a highsec carebear ... give them a pass. Gank the bots fleets ... unless, of course you approve of bots. I don't. But then again, if enough real players who like mining quit, we'll need bots or all the capitals in the game will be grounded.

Your post made me sad because it gave me hope that nitropes were back over 1k/unit, since that's where all my orders actually are.