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The Great Ice Mining Interdiction: Not so Great

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Ludi Burek
Exit-Strategy
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#41 - 2013-08-19 08:31:03 UTC
I beg to differ. Suicide ganking is quiet honourable and of immense benefit to eve.

To take it a step further, ganking of ice miners is most honourable of all ganking and especially that of scum Caldari ice miners. Gankers are comparable to Zemnar.
Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#42 - 2013-08-19 08:45:10 UTC
I don't normally mine ice but when I do, it goes in my whisky Arrow
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#43 - 2013-08-19 08:45:38 UTC
A bit dissapointed ! Not the chaos that I expected.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#44 - 2013-08-19 08:48:06 UTC
We arn't even past day one.
Logical Chaos
Very Italian People
The Initiative.
#45 - 2013-08-19 09:39:44 UTC
Eram Fidard wrote:
You're assuming that ice is actually moving at the increased prices. No trade volume = no profit.


There is probably no other product where people will still buy at a much higher price than ice. POS going offline? Hell No. Not jumping your Cap? Yeah sure.
Shasz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#46 - 2013-08-19 15:05:16 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
We arn't even past day one.


Having a ball with this ice interdiction thing, I look forward to more.

You might pass it down the line to the FCs of the bigger ganks to have the fleet turn off auto-target-back. The last thing you want to have happen is some guy with his guns primed accidentally lock that Ishtar that pre-locked him and blow his wad early.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#47 - 2013-08-19 15:11:17 UTC
Shasz wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
We arn't even past day one.


Having a ball with this ice interdiction thing, I look forward to more.

You might pass it down the line to the FCs of the bigger ganks to have the fleet turn off auto-target-back. The last thing you want to have happen is some guy with his guns primed accidentally lock that Ishtar that pre-locked him and blow his wad early.





Sounds like fun, why would I not let them do that?
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#48 - 2013-08-19 15:38:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Arduemont
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Lt Manshield wrote:
Arduemont wrote:


Lowest? Ha, gate camp says hi.


Yea, not so much. Gate camping may be pretty low on the list, but nowhere near suicide ganking. At least gate campers take the risk of people being able to PvP them back, and kill people who are mostly at their keyboard.



I'm sorry, did we hurt your e-honoure ~ ?


You mistake me. Gate campers are my prey of choice. Hence, why I like them better than suicide gankers. Although it has to be said, I am a little insulted that you thought I was a gate camper.

Tippia wrote:
It's not as if gank victims can't PvP the gankers right back and be at their keyboards.


I very rarely disagree with you Tippia, but here I have to. In the vast majority of cases, you don't have time to shoot a suicide ganker back, and even if you did it wouldn't help. If a decent group of suicide gankers wants one of your ships dead there is literally nothing you can do about it. It is the only area in Eve where someone gets to PvP risk free.

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Dominion.
DECOY
#49 - 2013-08-19 17:05:16 UTC
Gealbhan wrote:
I don't normally mine ice but when I do, it goes in my whisky Arrow

Ice in a good single malt == sacrilege! Just a wee splash of water to open it up.

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Rhes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#50 - 2013-08-19 18:08:53 UTC
Arduemont wrote:
If a decent group of suicide gankers wants one of your ships dead there is literally nothing you can do about it. It is the only area in Eve where someone gets to PvP risk free.


Except for that whole part where they lose their ships to CONCORD. Roll

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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#51 - 2013-08-19 18:21:49 UTC
Rhes wrote:
Arduemont wrote:
If a decent group of suicide gankers wants one of your ships dead there is literally nothing you can do about it. It is the only area in Eve where someone gets to PvP risk free.


Except for that whole part where they lose their ships to CONCORD. Roll


If you wish to make people understand that, you are in for a hell of a long time arguing before anyone agree to that.
E-2C Hawkeye
HOW to PEG SAFETY
#52 - 2013-08-19 18:31:41 UTC
I Love Boobies wrote:
Hey OP... instead of whining because people aren't killing them, you grow some balls and you and your friends do the killing. Or aren't you man enough? Blink

ugggh lol yea bc killing miners is REAL pvp.
Georgina Parmala
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#53 - 2013-08-19 18:35:51 UTC
Arduemont wrote:

I very rarely disagree with you Tippia, but here I have to. In the vast majority of cases, you don't have time to shoot a suicide ganker back, and even if you did it wouldn't help. If a decent group of suicide gankers wants one of your ships dead there is literally nothing you can do about it. It is the only area in Eve where someone gets to PvP risk free.

Never seen someone warp in to rain on the ganker's parade? Seen the looter caught by an interceptor? Seen the pods caught?

You are risking that the gank will fail. You are risking the loot ship. You are risking the pod. You are at the mercy of the loot fairy to brake even, let alone make profit.

I know a group of people that get kicks from popping cats mid gank. Read: try to kill the cat(s) to save the barge, not whoring on a concord mail. Then trying to catch the looter/pods. Then ask the barge for a donation if it lived. Then gank it themselves if the pilot is an exceptional ass and deserved it.

It's funny how often a ganker will warp the pod to a safe spot and afk, oblivious to probes. The most entertaining part of the process is that they sometimes produce some good tears, not unlike the miners themselves. I guess clone costs add up when you don't use a throwaway alt.

Risk free? No more so than jumping in a blank clone and 100 mil throwaway ship and heading out on a solo roam. If anything, of the two, ganking is the one that is more prone to unexpected results. Leading to losing more than you intended. ie: Risk.

You're looking at ganking as "Ganker vs Victim" pvp. Not "Ganker vs ~Players~". From the Orca with resist boosts, to the scythes/blackbirds I've occasionally seen hang out in belts, to people as above who find screwing with others to be an entertaining pastime.

As Tippia said, they have every opportunity to be at the keyboard and fight back. That statement just means more than "Auto-target-back and F1".

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#54 - 2013-08-19 18:43:04 UTC
Altrue wrote:
A bit dissapointed ! Not the chaos that I expected.


Various killboards offer quite a different angle on the whole issue, here in the opening hours of what will likely be (at least) a month of gratuitous carnage. Pirate


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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#55 - 2013-08-19 19:22:42 UTC
Arduemont wrote:
I very rarely disagree with you Tippia, but here I have to. In the vast majority of cases, you don't have time to shoot a suicide ganker back, and even if you did it wouldn't help. If a decent group of suicide gankers wants one of your ships dead there is literally nothing you can do about it. It is the only area in Eve where someone gets to PvP risk free.


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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2013-08-19 19:27:41 UTC
E-2C Hawkeye wrote:
I Love Boobies wrote:
Hey OP... instead of whining because people aren't killing them, you grow some balls and you and your friends do the killing. Or aren't you man enough? Blink

ugggh lol yea bc killing miners is REAL pvp.

dude, even the forums are pvp grounds in this game.

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Georgina Parmala
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#57 - 2013-08-19 20:13:31 UTC
Grimpak wrote:

dude, even the forums are pvp grounds in this game.

Sometimes your contest against other players starts at the character selection screen, should you log out in a certain system.

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Psychedelic Faynin
Doomheim
#58 - 2013-08-19 20:45:38 UTC
Goons were getting spanked.

They refused to come up to the ice belts after a while.

L O S E R S
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#59 - 2013-08-19 20:51:17 UTC
Psychedelic Faynin wrote:
Goons were getting spanked.

They refused to come up to the ice belts after a while.

L O S E R S


look at you talking trash hiding behind an npc alt

lol

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Psychedelic Faynin
Doomheim
#60 - 2013-08-19 21:04:03 UTC
Andski wrote:
Psychedelic Faynin wrote:
Goons were getting spanked.

They refused to come up to the ice belts after a while.

L O S E R S


look at you talking trash hiding behind an npc alt

lol


Sorry, this is my main lamer. I was up in Osmon most of the weekend along with you goonpussies. Just ask the ones that were there.