Catalyst: 1.4m
Light Neutron Blaster II: 1.3m*8=10.4m
Gunnery Mods: 3 million
Everything Else: ~ a few hundred thousand

Total Value: 15 million
Surviving Mods: 6.8 million, assuming 50% survival rate for modules
Sunk Cost: 8.2 million per Catalyst

We are at war?

Anyhow, a guy with that much time on his hands would be useful to any organization.

Please inquire for a job at Kor-Azor Prime, Moon Griklaeum, Ishukone Corporation Factory, we still need someone to count our minerals (doing something useful for a achange).

We would hope so, the less unwanted competitors the better. We can already feel the higher minerals prices in our wallet. Though I still see to many competitors where we operate.

I'm waiting...

... still ...

... perhaps some of those fabled Hulkageddon gankers would care to show up one day?

You're doing it wrong. Switching from T2 to T1 means you can use 2 catalysts for this job, and afford an Orca full of Catalysts for the same price as those guns of yours.

Now factor in the salvage and loot from the Hulk or Mackinaw you just killed.

It's really not that hard to do it right.

You're doing it wrong. Switching from T2 to T1 means you can use 2 catalysts for this job, and afford an Orca full of Catalysts for the same price as those guns of yours.

Now factor in the salvage and loot from the Hulk or Mackinaw you just killed.

It's really not that hard to do it right.

I once sat next to a miner in my tengu and it warped out. When i told him that i was not going to gank him in my ship he said that he could not be sure.

Which adds evidence that miners have the least knowledge about this game than any other profession.

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My own observations, corroborated by the dedicated bot-watchers in Crime & Punishment, have actually seen a proportionate increase in botting of late; a new network of easily-identified botters is crawling over the belts in highsec as we speak.

What's happened is that the human miners, unlike the bots, became aware of Hulkageddon and have ceased mining. When humans abandoned the belts, the bots became a larger percentage of those left behind, and they stand out more. For example, a new type of ice-mining bot, very common today, flocks in the ice fields. They use an identical ship name scheme (a space before the ship name, easy to spot groups of them using your D-scanner), and they warp out one-by-one if you lock them. I have cleared out entire ice fields with a frigate just by locking up the bots, because there are no humans left mining there.

The drop in mining has been disproportionately--perhaps entirely--caused by a decline in the number of human miners, not bots. Thus, the decrease in mining among humans in highsec is greater than 45.53%. We don't have official statistics on what percentage of the total mining in highsec is done by bots, but by all accounts it's a hefty amount. Therefore, this is the bottom line:

The majority of human highsec miners have quit mining.
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Yes, and another account is free of charge, right? Not to mention the time inefficiency and increased risk factor of using multiple accounts.

I'd just like to add that if a large, null-sec alliance REALLY needed minerals, and it was impossible to procure them through normal means, its leadership would probably coordinate with allies, schedule a fleet, send some pings, and lo and behold, next thing you know there would be a multifaceted operation with 100 exhumers, 30 logistics, 15 orcas, 10 rorquals and a couple titans to bridge everyone around, plus 200 armor hacs w/ support on patrol spewing bubbles everywhere to protect the fleet, plus 25 carriers and 15 supercarriers on standby within jump range, a wing of stealth bombers patrolling the region, and rifterswarms guarding all the gates. And the entire constellation would probably be clear of ore within a few hours.

Perhaps people should make some friends, come to nullsec and start playing the real game.

These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green goons, walking New Eden with guns. These people we wasted here this month are the finest miners we will ever know. After we rotate back to Deklein, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting.

Whilst it is commendable that miners are trying ganking, your appear to have missed one vital thing. If no-one is mining, and the bots are all banned, then how do you expect to pay for your ships in a years time when a cruiser costs 600mil? Or when you have to go out mining to build it....oh wait, you can't do that because you will just get blown up.

Perhaps OP could explain the drop in mineral prices? And the fact that whole areas of Eve Highsec seem to have tons of miners...?

Perhaps OP could explain the drop in mineral prices? And the fact that whole areas of Eve Highsec seem to have tons of miners...?

Two weeks ago, I wrote a Manifesto II in which I called upon the people of EVE to put a stop to all mining in highsec. Most people probably thought it was crazy to even consider such a thing possible. Not anymore. We're already more than halfway there!

Granted, some miners will return to the belts once Hulkageddon ends. But many will not. 1 Having been forced to adapt and try out other professions, and having found them more rewarding, they will leave mining for good. 2 As the miners' numbers diminish, so does their power and influence over CCP.

inb4 the same people who think pvp is the entire game complains that a cruiser costs as much as a plex.

I hope every single high-sec miner rage-quits in tears. Until they do, I'll be upping my ransom prices on T1 hulls, which are finally worth something.