EVE General Discussion

I once had four extra accounts for mining, three of them were closed last month and the last one is being closed as of this month with a permanent announcement of Hulkageddon.

Since taking my Tengu into WH's is more profitable and less risky than high sec mining, you can understand why I'd do this. Also I only need one account, my main account.

So CCP lost 4 of my 5 subscriptions and a rather robust source of tritanium. Many others with alt mining accounts have followed through with what I have done. I'm I'm going to be forced to watch my screen endlessly, I may as well do something enjoyable and more profitable like WH's.

Look at you, it's almost like you don't realize that Burn Jita and Hulkageddon were planned before fanfest.

mining is completely dictated by player-driven supply and demand. If you in a retriever was low profit, it was because hundreds if not thousands of users in max-yield hulks afk mining away drove the price down/

This literally made me laugh out loud. No one and I mean no one is forcing you to watch your screen. But to have the belief that you can not pay attention and at the same time not be in danger is ludicrous. Furthermore, doing something more enjoyable is kind of the point. You are essentially stating that mining and paying attention to the space around you is not enjoyable. I commend you on finding something more enjoyable and profitable.

Good for you.

Seriously, mining for trit is something you do in tutorial missions. With the 1 man fleet you were running there, you took it about as far as it could go.

As you've found out for yourself though, Eve has a lot more than highsec veldspar, and pretty much all of it is better isk than the most common mineral in the game. You might want to resub those accounts and get them trained up to support your new found sources of wealth.

Then you can be the one to laugh as you make bank supplying nullsec with materials for the Tengu fleets they love to throw around.

I disagree sorry. Mining is great, sitting in a super tanked hulk just waiting for someone to try and kill you is as funny as hell and you get to make money when your not being entertained.

I have tried Ganking its fun, but its even more fun watching people trying to gank you.

and there is not one ******* shred of evidence that this assertion is true. it is just pulled-out-of-one's-ass propaganda. and the occasional whiner who really wants this is held up as evidence that this assertion is true. it's a load of bullshit.



and this is another idiot feverish paranoid dream of the moronic



goons want to force everyone to play the game their way.. and that's just stupid as not all of eve can be "l33t pvpers" shitting in nullsec all day. someone has to supply the minerals for the ships we use to shoot each other with. raging on the industrialists is just shooting ourselves in the foot.



and THIS is really why they're doing it.. everything else is a smoke screen.




don't forget the failpvpers who couldn't shoot a ship that can fight back and live.

you really are a bloody idiot with no understanding of the eve economy. i hope you enjoy inflation because idiots like you are the single biggest cause of it in eve - forget incursions.. ******* up the mineral economy is the fastest way to raise prices in eve across the board.

I'm sure increasing the earnings on the tech is part of the reason, but by making it indefinite I would say it is rather clear it isn't the mean reason. Since unless a miner is reasonably certain they earn back the price of the hulk and extra before being ganked they will simply stop flying it reducing demand for tech and as such earnings for the cartel.

As some people are already saying the event will increase mineral prices and through them almost every item in game which could make the game as a whole less attractive, many might be wiling to bear with 4-6 hours on boredom per week to be able to pvp the rest of the time but if it becomes more it might be a different story. Especially for anyone that doesn't play 4+ hours per day. In the end this can make the game overall less attractive to new players, how many do you think will enjoy having to grind for a day to recover their first few loses, and reduce the retaining of new players.

An other issue is how driving up these mineral prices will affect gathering resources to set up a large offensive making it considerably harder and since goons are controlling most tech they are the ones that will probably feel this the least and this is without the fact that it is most likely that their stockpiles are the largest in game already. Unless you think it would be a mistake to assume that the largest alliance that actually set up an event that increases the prices would have made sure to stockpile everything they need before rumors even started.

Both these factors mean that this continued hulkageddon only purpose is to consolidate the goons' position:
- reducing new players will limit possible new recruits for alliances, but at the same time they can rely on external forums to keep a healthy influx of new members
- increasing the cost of warfare will make it harder for smaller alliances to catch up or new alliances to grow which should reduce the number of groups that could become a threat to them

Personally I would say goonswarm made a rather clever move by sponsoring this event making sure that even those forces in new eden that could become a threat will help them consolidate their powerbase. Or is it just that the rest of alliance leaders are just that stupid.

It's not much of a smoke screen when we're been openly saying this the whole time.