EVE General Discussion

... Especially with this new bounty system! What does it all mean?

Well, after having repeatedly done too many ganking-risk calculations, and explaining over why you will be fine mining in your Mackinaw, or why your newbie missioning ship won't get blapped because of the jerk who put a bounty on you, or... you get the gist.

I have had a couple of posts on how bounties work, but I wanted something more definitive to be able to just throw at people for them to solve their own problems, or to give them a feel for if what they're doing is risky and stupid.

So, I present to you, the Ganking Risk Estimation Tool! Give it your ship/module/cargo's worth, your bounty, your hit points, and about how long before CONCORD shows up, and it will tell you about your chances of dying a fiery death at the hands of gankers.

It works for tons of stuff, like:

• Is my freighter safe carrying 1.5 billion ISK? Yeah, watch out for big ganker camps.
• What if I do it with a 500 million ISK bounty on my head? Now you need to watch out for Tornado camps too.
• What about my untanked Mackinaw? Yeah, that's on the risky side.
• But, what if I tank it? Nope.
• What does a 40m bounty change for my Mack? Risky again!
• What about... if I flew a Condor full of PLEX through Jita? Heh.

Hope you find this useful! Also, that it will reduce the number of "my hisec is so unsafe" complaints. Enjoy!

A bountied exhumer pays out 30-40 mil ISK more than an un-bountied one. Considering that pays for 8-10 destroyers, that is a very good reason to care about it affecting ganking. Saying that it doesn't affect ganks is naive and not looking at the numbers.

A group of determined gankers could still kill a Skiff for under its cost, albeit not at a profit. Note the Thrasher entry.

Regardless, that is not the point here. The point is "you don't have to do a whole page of calculations to figure out if you're asking to get blown up or not", which is a difficulty that a large number of people on the forums are having. Please stop trying to turn this into a "you're going down, miners!" thing. It's not.

Thank you Petrus, you have confirmed that my Maller is not a profitable gank, even with a sizable bounty on my head.

E: Also, isn't insurance counted into the bounty calculation somehow? Anyway, fun toy you made.

Hmm... Forgot about that. Will include it now. Ed: Done. 40% insurance is applied to all ship values now. (Not coding in T1/T2/Faction differences because I'm lazy)

Ah don't worry, Bat Country will make great use of your work as it helps us a great deal. Also you provided a nice flow chart to boot and as everyone knows, we EVE players just love our charts, graphs and numbers.

Nice one, Petrus. +1 Space points

Don't worry, it could go worse and you could get banned for having created an helpful thread.

Thanks for this tool! It's vindicated my decision to liquidate my freighter after somebody put a billion ISK bounty on me. I made a 600 million ISK net profit overall!

it was an old freighter, from the days when they only cost 900 million. It has served well, but the choice was to either let it sit mothballed in my hangar until I work off a billion ISK bounty (which will take a while, I'm a highsec industrialist) or keep using it and probably wind up getting ganked.

All in all, I feel the decision to sell it at a profit has been vindicated