False. I concede it is not the only reason.

Yet you must agree with me that all activities can be looked at from a isk/hour perspective and a balanced game is possible only if the isk/hour - risk/reward scales accordingly.

The problem is that, the way the game is actually set up, they're wrong, and that by doing so, they will never be effective because they will always be lagging behind in the two things that really matters: experience and support.

So hating the players who fool them into believing such nonsense is rather appropriate.

The latter might at least have an excuse, not knowing better and allGǪ the former is just malicious.

In essence, you can make a Hulk survive a gank. Alternatively, you can just go for the long haul, skip that, and include the occasional Hulk loss as the cost of doing business as a highsec miner. Either way, the risk is manageable.

Quite elementary, really.

It's not if you lose 2-3 Hulks per week. It's manageable if you can mine enough ore to cover that loss before you lose next ship.

Or get high enough income from other sources, like market.

Your thread is built upon a lie and false premises.

Your questions are unlikely to have ever produced any usable statistics or data as it fails to take in to account those people who fall partly outside your narrow definitions of a high sec dweller. The reason I say it is based upon a lie is that judging from not only your reaction to certain posters, but your leading questions following on from their responses, that this thread is really a stealth "nerf high sec" whine thread.

Only instance where the other MMOs have content not subject to competition, is when you get an instance and exclusively pick up stuff that is player bound on pick up, which is an extremely rare occurrance.

All the other times you get out with something tradable and thus you are subject to competition.


On the other side, in EvE you can achieve something quite close to "such escape" you describe.
Mine and make your ships and ammo without selling anything, then do L4 missions for the bounties. It's as close to playing a PvE game as it gets, plenty possible and also often done. Many (their bad of course) don't even bother converting the LPs and only recently looting became sort of worthwhile again (if you fly a marauder with tractor beam).