Does anyone else think that the devs didn't think this through too well?

It's already apparent what effect this is having on the ice market. If the trend continues, soon the only people mining ice will be bots and afk alts.

A quarter the amount counts as Gǣnot far belowGǥ these days? WowGǪ

Maybe you mean 55% extra yield with orca pilot skills and gank modules?
And that is for every ship in the fleet. And you are for some reason keep forgetting the cycle losses from having to go back to the station.

2 hulks+orca = 4 machinaws give or take.

It's assumed that if you're using an orca to boost the hulks then you would be using an orca to boost the macks. 2 max yield hulks + orca is only 9% more yield than 2 max yield macks + orca.

The biggest difference is macks hold more than 4 times the ore, far less effort is needed and in paticular when mining ice this far outweighs any benefit you gain from the 9% more yield the hulk setup would give. You can literally leave your computer alone for half an hour while you fill up on ore, allowing you put out far longer mining sessions than you could in a hulk.

CCP wanted to do away with there being one best barge, before that was the hulk. All they've achieved is making the mackinkaw the new king barge and entirely crashed the ice market at the same time. The market prices of the hulk and mackinkaw reflect this, their prices have been completely reversed. The new mackinkaw costs the same amount as the old hulk, the new hulk costs the same amount as the old mackinkaw. The market doesn't lie. The majority are mining in Mackinkaws.

You realize they could just be - ignoring you, right? Ahh no, vanity.

LOL I love how miners come to forums an cry to CCP that they are above the rule set an should be hand held. CCP listen an give them that immunity they feel they deserve. Amusing. As for the trolls "trying" to score points... irrelevant. facts are facts, CCP always listen to the ones who complain the most. EG Miners/botters

This is a fact

Jihad they screamed an ranted that waaa we deserve to have our hands held.
CCP listened an bang! Concord boost was given.

Forward 3 years, Miners cry an rave that they alone deserve to be protected, it isn't fair they shouldn't have to use their brain cel an actually think to protect themselves....
CCP listens....

After all god forbid, a miner had to NOT mine in high pop systems
After all god forbid a miner actually mined in mission belts
After all god forbid a Miner actually used Dscan
After all god forbid a miner actually talked to others to find out who gankers are an -10 them, so they could see em coming.

After all....oh **** it lol Basically miners dont want self responsibility, they "demand" CCP protect em... :)

100$ says Mission runners will be next, they will work out that miners got what they demanded, an they will say "it isnt fair, we want to be free to mission anywhere we choose in 10b fittings without any risk... lol

As for my little self, I enjoy going after Viators an haulers in general. dont give a damn about loot, kills for tears is payment enough.

I agree that they over reacted, the moment they released the first changes on Sisi the were insane, they had to nerf them a few times on Sisi. It's really hard to understand their line of thinking with the mackinkaws ridiculous ore hold size, how could they not see that they were creating an even bigger problem?

It makes all the other ships useless, Last night 1 hulk in over 30 macks in 3 hours I found, an today those macks are still botting away an not one single hulk.... That alone says volumes. Naturally enough CCP will say its a feature, because they dont like to be wrong. So they will say Mack was designed to be the new ship of choice for aspirating botters everywhere.