In-Game Events and Gatherings

You can mine in high-sec. Well, people that don't advertise themselves as miners, can mine in high-sec.

I'd recommend not using hulks, staying well away from, well, pretty much everyone, and keeping a very close eye on local, staying aligned, and warping out at the first sign of trouble, but it's doable.

If you try mining, all fat and happy like most people, you're going to lose ships and pods.

Have fun :)

As if mineral prices are not high enough already, lets keep them climbing.

It really sux that the gank ships needed for HULKAGEDDON are so much more expensive right now.

Although I am a miner I truly believe HULKAGEDDON is actually good for the EVE economy as a whole. It gives the market a nice little boost every year which usually takes a few months to subside.

However this year with the timing coinciding with the big BOT purge, and the Drone alloys nerf, we may be in for quite the roller coaster ride yet before the prices get any where near stable.

Just a note for all the avid PVPers out there. Miners will now be the primary source of minerals in EVE, no more gun mining or drone alloys to drive prices down. The more unsafe miners feel the higher the prices will get. Just keep that in mind when you are paying over a bil for a ship you could buy for a few hundred mil a few months ago.

Gankers have been harvesting tiers from miners for a long time now. But it is now time for the miners to harvest the teirs of those same gankers crying about the price of their ships.

Let the games begin...

Now is the time for Miners to rise up, We need to flex our power and Gank mineral prices, If Anyopne can impact and influence the Game, its the Miners raise your prices and dont sell cheap.

The main thing to remember is be smart when you're mining. dont go afk, always align, and watch local. theres no reason if youre paying attention that you'll get ganked. when i mined in the past i would always mine out my missions i could pick up an easy 10-mil or more doing that. Katja was right. most gankers wont take the time to scan you down. we just run the belts.

Hulkageddon is good for CCP. As the bots cleaning was good for CCP the same way.
Wiping off miners and making ships more expensive is good for CCP because PVP'ers won't cry and complain because ships have become more expensive, they'll simply buy more PLEXes.

Which is all of this about.

Cheers,

Vechtor

For once in a very long time, mining will become a profitable and respectable profession. It will be worth the risk of mining with gankers in the vicinity once mineral prices go up.

And much better ore

Hulkageddon is a Joke. I mean, I can appreciate the concept and like when there are large-scale player-created events. But Hulkageddon is getting old.

There are really three problems with it. Two major, one minor.

First, the minor problem: It is old and not very original. It really needs some changing up to keep it interesting. But this is a minor issue.

The major issues are this:
1) Gankers abound and pretty much kill hulks all the time, everywhere. So you would be very hard pressed to find things to be all that differrent during Hulkageddon than before it started. So this really makes it feel like a non-event. Good miners are used to always being on the lookout for ganks. Now, this could be at least partly remedied except for the second major issue:

2) Hulkageddon is scheduled for too long a period. Four weeks is far too long. Now, there's no real sense of urgency for anyone participating. A participant can figure, "well, I have a whole month, so I'll just get around to ganking whenever it is convenient" - which spreads it out and dilutes it to the point that, even if there were increased activity over regular ganking (see issue 1 above), it will be diluted over 4 weeks so as to be drowned out by the bankground noise of regular ganking.

If the event were concentrated - over a single weekend, or say 4 days at most, then it would feed a sense of urgency and would really be noticable. Sort of like the burn Jita event - which is for a day or so at most - looking at the kill list, it is definitely noticeable.

As it stands, though, Hulkgeddon is a tired, old thing, spread out over too long a time, such that I doubt anyone will notice much difference from the 24/7 gankfest that is normal Eve mining.

We have had about 14 accounts in our alliance unsubbed for the next month or two, I hardly see this event as being good for CCP. It doesn't effect me personally as I don't mine, but it bothers me to see people not being able to log on and play because of big bad wussies wanting to mass scale pvp non combat ships. If it were just a week long thing I doubt anyone would not have resubbed.

What miners need to do is to gang up as well. Miners should have a concurrent event like Hulkocalypse, where they support each other.

Great time for mining corps, who can organize "safe" mining ops. Heh heh.