EVE General Discussion

Tractor beam, dump the roid scanner. A real miner mines everything to the last drop.

The thing is not to make it 'easy' for the gankers, so always spread out.
But, meh, what I've seen no-one does this, so cluster up and give the gankers an easy big lump of targets all in the same tidy spot.

My Orca sits around 280k EHP, if someone wants to gank it, they'll need to bring more than a couple catalysts. If they go through that much trouble, more power to them.

Or you can use a meta resist amp.

Volkswagon going 120 kp/h slams into the side of a Semi truck sitting at a stop light.... what happens to the volkswagon???
If you bump a ship with a ship 1/4 its size said ship should explode on impact.

As previously pointed out, you should always be aligned at 3/4 speed for instant warp out ability. Mining/strip lasers have different ranges for a reason, and it isn't for being able to reach more roids while sitting still.

Warping out has always been your best defense, particularly if you use your ability to set standings and share intel so that you can make educated decisions on when this action would be necessary.

If you do have to warp out, and are sure an attempt was made, set your standings and share the information. You do have an intel channel for mining right? RIGHT?

If known gankers/bumpers come into your system, go to another system.

Every other ship in the game must make these same decisions, regardless of size. The Carrier in an anom, the battleship ratting in a belt, mission runners scanned out while running their missions... if someone suspicious warps to your location you must make a decision as to the level of threat and decide if it is wise to warp out so as not to be trapped and overwhelmed by the hostiles friends.

Miners are being asked to follow the game mechanic realities that every other player in the game faces.

Soon you will have even more options for survivability. However if you fail to take the simple steps already available to you, it is doubtful that the new mining barges will change the situation significantly.

They Decloak 2500m off of you. The fastest they can be doing is like 600m/s before they decloak. You'll have plenty of time to warp out.

Shh, he'll come gank us in his 80k EHP cruisers (He still owes us 6 fits).

I think It would be funny to be exiting warp at a gate and see an explosion and a pod show up on overview only to find out someone MWD'd an inty into my freighter.

Negative, picking inty parts out of the engine intakes. but I guess that is what my crew is for.

…also, let's talk about that mythical smartbomb gank.

A full rack of large T2 smartbombs does 2400 damage per pulse. In the 20 seconds it takes for CONCORD to respond in the deepest 0.5-sec, you can get off 3 or maaaaybe 4 such pulses, for a total of 7,200 / 9,600 damage (in 0.7–0.6, that third and pulse are pretty much impossible, and above 0.7, it's questionable if the ganker will get off more than one or two). If the ganker wants to keep pulsing after CONCORD arrives, he will have to fit pretty much every last midslot with cap boosters and be very precise in his timing, at which point he might be able to get two more pulses in there for a total of 12,000–14,400 damage.

A completely unfitted Hulk stands a fair chance of surviving such an attack— that's how dangerous it is.

This means you need at least two or three such suicide smartbombers to have a fair chance of taking out… well… anything, really. Two problems immediately arise from this: you must manage to warp all ships in precisely enough to cover the same ships with their piddling 6km range and yet not bump each other out of position. Oh, and if pyfa is to be believed (which, admittedly, is doubtful), each such ship will set you back close to 250M ISK. Congratulations — the gank costs three times more than the victim's loss and the chances of catching more than one ship is slim (and requires the victims to be pretty darn stupid to begin with)… oh, and you're still not assured of destroying even one of the miners.

I can see it now... tractor beam repulsion module... lol