Alexia page
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Posted - 2011.07.04 21:28:00 -
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Edited by: Alexia page on 04/07/2011 21:32:46
I am primarily a miner. I live in high sec and I have been through two hulk Hulkageddon's. It is only a week long not months. Although some of the gankers take weeks to stop after it is over. However this is not near as bad as many here are saying.
I would much rather have all the gankers get together and pop hulks, orcas, and other mining and hauling ships for 1 week per year, then have the gankers just attack at any time. True there are high sec gankers around all year, buy I firmly believe if not for hulkageddon it would be far worse. It allows most part time gankers to get their fix and then have to spend the next few months rebuilding their sec status.(even during hulkageddon they do lose sec status attacking you in high sec.) and leave you alone for the rest of the year. Most of the gankers get it out of their system, and then don't gank miners until the next hulkageddon.
Look at it as an opportunity to gank the gankers. A hulk can fit a dam good tank if you are not actually worried about your mining yield. Most hulkageddon gankers are team up with 1-2 friends. It is very rare to get caught by a huge gank squad. Have a few alts/corp mates cloaked nearby in PVP ships and fleeted with the Hulk, or better yet add a logi to rep the hulk when it gets attacked. When the gankers show up pretend to be AFK until they aggro you then decloak and tackle them. Generally at first they ignore your fleet mates thinking they are just there to gank the hulk by coincidence at the same time. By the time they realize it was a trap you got them tackled, your hulk is hopefully still alive, And you have the upper hand. You will not always win but it makes Hulkageddon much more fun.
I thought about joining the gankers to thin out the competition a little but I spend way to much time building my sec status to throw it away ganking hulks. I much prefer the gank trap, if you don't want to lose a hulk then use a cheap retriever, they will still attack it, you just have no chance of a retriever surviving. It may sound ridiculous or pointless but believe me it is fun, and really is nice to have a killmail with a hulk on the winning side, especially during hulkageddon.
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