EVE General Discussion

Depending on how you fit your Mack, you where either unlucky or made yourself a prime target. Or both.

Fit for maximum tankage.

This bears repeating.

I'm afraid this was your first mistake. Mackinaws aren't very sturdy mining ships and are vulnerable to being ganked by cheap, cost-efficient destroyers. If you intend on mining in a Mackinaw, Retriever, Hulk or Coveter I recommend paying more attention to the local chat channel and your directional scanner for content creators seeking to bring some excitement to your mining session. In short, AFK'ing is not good for the health of one's mining ship.

In the time you have been away from New Eden a wise man by the name of James 315 has begun a revolution in Highsec. A revolution to create content and bring danger back into the "safe" part of space. The New Order of Highsec aims to rid New Eden of bot-aspirancy, AFK mining, AFK freighting and AFK mission running and create a more exciting, dangerous and all-around better experience in high security space for everyone. As a result of this effort highsec content creation and miner ganking is now a regular, everyday occurrence.

In the future I would also recommend purchasing a Mining Permit. Contact your local New Order of Highsec Agent for details.

As others have suggested, a Well tanked Procuror or even a Skiff. They can be very sturdy ships when setup correctly.

Procurers are awesome. I've flown them into low sec PvP, scored kills with them, and even survived (sometimes).

Also: Just become the Ganker! But if not, fly a Procurer.

Fly something that's less tasty as a target. Flashy T2 Exhumers like the Mackinaw make a tasty killmail and people will shoot at them on that basis alone.

The humble T1 Procurer is, imho, the best option in most circumstances, with the sole exception of Gas harvesting, where the mighty Venture reigns supreme.

A properly tanked Procurer requires a significant number of gank Catalysts to pop and is far less of a target for that reason. Even better is being in your humble Procurer, surrounded by Hulks or Mackinaws. Any Gank Squad worth it's salt won't be coming after you first.

There are TONS of things you can do to reduce the risk of getting ganked.

The biggest thing, in my opinion, is just not becoming a target in the first place. Use dotlan to find a very quiet system to go mine in. The fewer people that spend any time in the system or pass through it (hint, systems down dead ends), the lower your chance of even being seen by a ganker let alone ending up as that ganker's target.

Beyond that, paying attention is the next best bet. But of course not everyone wants to watch dscan and mine aligned all the time or whatever. No worries though. Peruse a killboard and look for everyone who dies to concord while in a catalyst. Set those corps/alliances to bad standing so you have help watching local. Being in a more quiet system helps here too, cause it makes it easier to keep tabs on local when you're normally the only one there.

Then there's your fit and system security. A tougher tank and a faster Concord response time (from a higher sec system) both mean the ganker(s) will need more skills, more expensive mods, and/or more accounts involved in order to kill you. Even a covetor can stand up to a few catalysts without dying if you're mining in a .9 and rocking the best tank you can fit, let alone a procurer with just a DCU II as its only tank in a .9. Other options: ECM mids and/or ECM drones; it's pretty easy to jam a catalyst, and that is probably all it will take to ensure Concord kills them before they kill you. The higher sec system ores are just as good as the .5 ones nowadays (I think?), so the only con to the MUCH faster concord response times is that the asteroids are a bit smaller and pop quicker.

There's a ton of other tricks, but these are most of what I've employed when I've mined in high sec to never even be targetted by a ganker, let alone actually killed by one.

Just find somewhere quiet.

If your really paranoid, AFK cloak in the system for like 3 weeks so any regulars get used to seeing you in local and give up bothering to scan you down.

Preparation goes a long way when starting to mine in a new location. Next time you should probably ask your fellow compliant miners first "who owns this place?" and "what is the local law if I want to mine here?". Obviously in your case the answers are: "James 315 and the New Order of Highsec" and "follow the New Halaima Code of Conduct and get a minjng permit".

She looks familiar to that one with the agenda, that constantly posts about ganking.

I'll report her just so it's noted and checked..