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figured they'd give a percentage to protect their investments by hiring corps for protection. or are they all that greedy that they'd rather eat the loss of a hulk?

How do you protect against alpha? I think high sec ganking is awesome, but you can't really protect from alpha besides fitting a tank (which many are too stupid to do). I think low sec mining with a fleet guarding the operation would be cool as hell and stimulate pvp, but miners are too carebearish to venture there.

Did, did she ... just ask that ??????

Tal

Im able to use multiple logistic in my multile accounts. as hulk protector, well skiled all to lvl 5, but here is problem, im old player, i wont waste like 5 hour to protect one hulk who mining veldspar who can made 10mil profit per hour... while im able to earn 4x more on lvl 4 mission, to my point, you think miners can aford protectors? and even if they can, they cant survive multiple alpha even they got logistic support.

Hi.

You look like a night elf.

That is all.

Genius, please tell me you offer such useful services.

... expecially when those "few hundred millions for a week of work" are more than they earn even with the increased prices.




Too bad for you, sometimes I fleet up with protection mercs who get miners jobs all the time.
They don't ask for hundred millions a week though.

Let's see...Any single person I play with has the capacity to run some incursions, or go into a wormhole, and make at the minimum 100 million ISK per hour.

Alternatively, for a standard high-sec war contract, the fee is usually 400-600 million weekly. In my experience, asking for more simply removes all chance of sealing a contract, unless you're being hired by a strong entity with specific goals. I mean, I've done contracts worth 2-3 billion a week, and I rarely bring more than 4-5 people on a job.

Let's assume four people actively take part in the contract. That's 150 million, at most, per person. Each of these people puts in at least double-digit hours every week chasing/camping/fighting war targets. How much is that per hour now? Now, let's add on the additional risk of losing ships in combat...

So, how much should we charge a carebear outfit per hour to guard a mining op that consists of, say, four Hulks and an Orca? Or are you also saying we should do this for free, because since we're pvpers, staring at the screen and doing nothing productive while guarding some whiny roid-suckers is its own reward?

Edit: keep in mind, we're not 2-month-old players in frigates learning the ropes. We actually ensure success for our employers. Sure, you might hire some local players to sit around in some cruisers, and fail miserably when they are unable to take out even one hostile destroyer before CONCORD does. I am talking about multiple T2 logistics, links, dedicated ECM burst Blackbirds, instant-lock 1400 Tornados, et cetera.

Thanks to Hulkageddon and raising mineral prices Hulks print money now thus protection isn't critical.

A couple more weeks of hulkageddon and mining will become most profitable activity in the game.

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