Crime & Punishment

So if I read this right you go to a belt with suspect flag and then the miners leave and come back with combat ships and engage you? If so I am going to have to try this.

Killing people anywhere should make one feel good about oneself. But killing people with a false entitlement of safety and drinking the outrage afterwards makes it sweeter.

I sell permits which allow you to mine without a mining permit. Sort of a get out of jail free card!! Send me 25 million isk and make sure you put the system(s) you like to mine in for the comments section.

Thanks.

Took the words right out of my mouth. You silver tongued devil.
I cringe anytime someone lets that one loose.

To the OP though, i'd suggest minerbumping and the new order guys. I don't personally endorse them but until you have means to run your own system lockdown - better learn the ropes and get some isk or friends behind you.

I think the defending rocks is more ironic/sarcastic when used as a rationale. And I should think that for the truly hardcore rock crunchers that they are already mostly dead inside to sit afk with a dozen clients all for the sake of isk.

I think I like the novel way the OP is getting his fights. He doesn't seem to be in direct conflict of any kind other than goading silly people into a bit deeper water than they realize.

Fit up a battle barge or exhumer, find the nearest active ice anom, camp it. For some strange reason, people have gone back to jet can mining in ice anoms. My guess, they are too cheap or anti-social to get an orca support pilot. instead, they use a quickly trained itty v alt to fly out, pick from the can, while they keep mining.

And I say battle barge because you will need something that can hold the ice.

There is not one single person in EVE who is ever forced to carebear if they don't want to. Characters with low SP, especially, will find that their isk/hour can be much better by taking up highsec piracy than it could be mining in a venture or grubbung out level 1 and 2 missions.

I should add to this that you can implement protection racketeering in EVE based on more than the stick.

The "carrot and stick" approach might work even better.

For example, in the case of miners then those who buy a "permit" also get access to orca bonuses and ship reimbursements for drive by shootings.

Those who don't pay (a) don't get bonuses and (b) are subject to getting war dec'd and/or suicided.

if you're *smart* then you'll also have contacts with local bad guys who you can work with.

Your working arrangement is thus: *your* blues don't get suicided because they've paid the mining fee... ie, they have your protection. However, you give intel to the gankers about neutrals. They get all the loot you pay them a cut of your profits to sweeten the pot and reimburse them for war decs. make an alliance to coordinate who is blue and who is not.

That's a win/win. the gankers get kills, tears, loot and isk and actually profit from their actions. *You* can exploit the mining permit system to cover costs and make a profit for basically doing nothing.

Once you get a grip on one system then you can expand it to a constellation and further. IMO there is good money to be made with this scheme provided (a) you are ruthless about non compliance and (b) you are organized and big enough.

I feel sorry for anyone who breaks a sweat sitting at the computer.

No need for mining permits!!