Crime & Punishment

Nothing can efficiently kill procurors solo, because they can tank very easily.

If you want to gank them for under the cost of their ship you will need multiple gankers in meta 3 catalysts. Keep the cost down to 3 mill per cat, and scoop the blue loot for reuse.

Some quick searches online came up with 60-70K ehp on a procurer. In 0.5 space with pre-pulled concord, a t2 catalyst deals around 14000 damage. You're looking at 5 ships costing 10-12 mill a piece for that. After drops the price drops to around 7 mill a piece, but even so, 35 mill to gank a 15-20 mill ship doesn't look so good. I'll have to get the numbers for meta cats later, but it should be around 15 mill to gank a procurer with them, so hope for that much in module drops in yellow loot.

Whatever you use make sure to have at least +3% hardwiring implants, or +5%'s if your confident in your ability to avoid white knights. For procurer ganking you will need nearly perfect skills.

Finally, keep in mind that ship scanning can reveal resist holes. If you find explosive or EM holes consider reshipping to a autocannon thrasher. EFT the size of the hole first to see if the dps drop is worth it.

thank you very much for your answers!

I suggest going bowling instead.

You can bump them thirty kilometers with a Stabber with a 100MN MWD.

A, more or less, properly fitted Procurer with decent skills should have around 60,000 EHP. If we assume you have 20 seconds before CONCORD kills you, that means you'd require 3000 dps. A badly fitted Procurer with 30k EHP would require 1500 dps.

Because someone said Tornadoes might work, and I gave the numbers on how they won't.

"I want you gone, idiot" is a perfectly valid reason to kill things.

You really can't gank a procurer solo, unless you're using high-alpha/expensive tornados.

However, it is possible. A 1400mm arty-fitted tornado can do the job in a 0.6 or 0.5 system. 1 shot can possibly bring down the shields to a critical level, and you can a second shot if you overheat the guns and have several gyrostabilizers fitted, that second shot would do the job, and just in time before you get CONCORDOKKEN.

Suicide ganking & 'miner bumping' are legal activities whereas bot mining is illegal under the EULA. Most gankers and/or bumpers have legitimate in-game reasons for doing what they do. Some changes due in the summer update such as increased sub-warp speed and increased drone damage on certain mining vessels will make it more difficult. But if pilots wish to 'police' depletion of asteroid belts to increase sustainable behaviour I believe it is a legitimate activity. Unlike what E1 did which was totally out of order.

In most cases it is not financially viable to try to suicide gank Procurers. To my mind Procurers should be a much more expensive craft to build as they have battleship characteristics but I'm just one voice.

It sounds like you have a problem with large scale depletion of asteroid belts by AFK/ISBoxer style mining fleets although you don't mention these details. I would offer my assistance but I am a small operation with a small number of sub-contractors so I cannot assist you.

I suggest the following methods:

1) Procurer pilots quite often use the jet-can method of mining nowadays. If you time it right you can make some ISK as well as 'encourage' the problem miners to relocate to other systems. Use a Miasmos and fill the lows with WCS and fit some tank such as shield extenders in the mids. Put an MWD in the mids as well to enable a faster getaway. You can empty more than two jet-cans into a Miasmos. Open the ore hold screen and the jet-cans screens and switch the ore manually due to a hold bug within the game client.
2) 'Miner-bumping'. Do this as well as emptying their jet-cans or if they are not using the jet-can method go straight to this option. You will need a cruiser with a MWD fitted. A good fitting can be found on the miner-bumping site run by James 315 using a stabber or make your own up if you can't fly Minmatar. Changes planned by CCP for the summer expansion are going to make this more difficult but it will still be possible to do post 3rd June.
3) If neither of the above is working either war-dec them yourself or employ a merc corp to do it for you. If they are in NPC corps you are a bit shafted on this one and will have to go back to options one and two above.

I am contracted to 'police' one system and have 'encouraged' quite a few corporations to move on. There are many other systems they can mine of course. Unfortunately there are always more 'AFK/ISboxer type appearing on the scene so it keeps me busy. I have even managed to 'move' corporations who cannot apparently speak any English so anything is possible. I encourage you to have a go at sorting it out yourself if this is the problem you face. Good luck.