The barges/exhumers needed more hit points, they were far to low for what the ships cost. Exhumers should have always had high ehp as they are the highest end ships you can get for mining.

Most miners (not all) are the poster child for the risk adverse. In my experience with the game they also are the scrubs (whining for mechanics changing without using the options already provided to them in game).

Due to this, in certain groups, pure miners have a stigma of being horrible for the game. We in that group tend to mess with them when possible. If the miners are not what we have stereotyped them to be, they would fight back in someway shape or form; however most do not, they simply run and hide and complain about it. Hence proving they are the scrubs we believe them to be.

Awesome! More stupid assumptions and invalid points! How is a miner supposed to fight back? Last time I checked mining lasers dont do any damage to a ship. Do you want them to reship and come at you in a BC? What a brilliant idea for pure industrial toons, dont waste time training industry skills, stop that nonsense and train up combat skills even though that is not what you want to do in the game. Go hire a merc corp and pay hundreds of millions to war dec the gankers corp. Maybe if you get lucky they might actually get to kill the one tough guy who blew up your defenseless mining barge. All that for a few hundred million, what a bargain!

The bottom line is, it makes James and friends mad that they can attack a miner and then be ignored. They dont understand that not everyone wants to train up combat skills and participate in blob warfare. They dont understand that it is far cheaper to replace a mining barge than it is to wardec and pay mercs. They dont understand that many miners have spent time in null and found it was simply not for them. In the end, it is a lack of understanding that starts most conflicts, both in Eve and in the real world.

What is people's obsession with miners? I've only been playing ten days and all I hear about on here is miners.

What is people's obsession with miners? I've only been playing ten days and all I hear about on here is miners.

What is people's obsession with miners? I've only been playing ten days and all I hear about on here is miners.

Of course you would, you both whine more than anyone else in EVE and think it makes a difference if you do it enough.

People just need to find a mining op going on in highsec somewhere with a ton of exhumers sitting around, warp in with a BS with smartbombs fit, and just get their rage out already.

I'd be surprised if you can't still blow up a couple of exhumers with a smartbomb BS.... just have to man up and take the sec hit.