Far more effective to blow them up, pod them and then report them.

You don't report bots. You want to keep them in the game for easy isk farming.

Far more effective to blow them up, pod them and then report them.

so it's your choice to kill, pod, whatever. It is not needed but "far more effective".

And you want it to be profitable too?

He want the stupid miner who does not tank his exhuer to be profitable. Not the one who used his braincell to tank it. Well it would make sense that way. If even the tanked one is profitable to gank, then **** this ****...

Last thing I want is for barges to be profitable to kill no matter what you do.

Miner tanks his ship -> "Don't fit tank mods. It's not a combat ship!"

You do it to teach people.

Miner tanks his ship -> "Don't fit tank mods. It's not a combat ship!"
Miner doesn't tank his ship -> "L2tank"

GǪexcept that no-one has ever told miners not to fit tank mods.

All best known gankers keep saying I shouldn't be able tank my ships since it makes their job more difficult.

No they say your ship should not be tanked just by default. Leaving all slots empty should not meant your exhumer is tanked

Battleships used in L4 missions are also tanked by default againist catalyst (all slots empty). Now are you going to whine that "nerf BS HP because they shouldnt be tanked just by default?

Or maby, just maby, I like the fact that smart miners get the reward and stupid miners get punished. Just like everything else in this game.

THANKS FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL GANKING BUFFS YOU ADDED TO HIGHSEC GREYSCALE

WAIT NO THOSE ARE ALL NERFS

AGAIN

Oh, gankers have been trying to drive Hulks out of hi-sec by killing them in numbers for how long? The chorus has been loud "tanking your exhumer will deter ganking". Well congratulate yourselves gankers, you won - hulks are an endangered species in hi-sec and miners are flying tanked. Mission Accomplished.

What she said. We don't see Hulks anymore, mission accomplished.
Actually mining ships can still be gank but you need a little bit more than a 7YO kid behind the computer flying daddy catalyst and knowing where F1 on the keyboard is and hit it.




But don't worry, there's always Kitty Online for those worderful children.

Update: CCP has once again shat on ganking in order to turn highsec into a risk-free carebear paradise.

The same could be said of every single miner coming back to Eve for Hello Mackinaw online.

"Daddy's macky out in the belty welty press f1 sweetie. No don't worry, you're safe."

Those children apparently belong in Eve high-sec. After all, Hello Kitty Online might be too tough for them.

Risk/reward.

Ganking may have a risk with next expansion, it always had rewards. No buff needed.

Yes please explain us why is free risk and also why you don't move to low/null/WH.
I know why: you actually like to be safe behind actual high sec aggression mechanics and Concord so you don't loose your uber boat.

Well, sorry for you dude. You'll have to adapt or die, eventually ragequit or just assume consequences of your choices from now on.

It was time.

All best known gankers keep saying I shouldn't be able tank my ships since it makes their job more difficult.

I actually live in nullsec, where everyone in Eve is already free to shoot me. However, with these new changes to highsec, if I take something, everyone is free to shoot at me, but I am not free to shoot at everyone.

Battleships used in L4 missions are also tanked by default againist catalyst (all slots empty). Now are you going to whine that "nerf BS HP because they shouldnt be tanked just by default?

My fellow highsec New Edeners,

From the conversation currently ongoing in this particular thread, some of the POD Pilot community would have you believe that our profession, the profession of mining, is now overpowered. That when we get into our barges, we are no longer vulnerable to their wicked ways. My friends, they are laying a trap for us.

This trap is one of the mind. These devious pilots are trying wholeheartedly to get you to drop your guard by saying our ships are too strong and that they can no longer violence our boats because the profit motive has dried up. I assure, they can gank our ships. A quick Battleclinic scan will reveal the truth about what is really happening out there. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide direct links to each gank per forum rules. These evil pilots will of course try to take advantage of this particular forum nerf to convince you "ganking is dieing".

Ganking is not dieing my friends. Tear gathering by the bucketful has been, and always will be, the goal of our nemesis. They will stop at nothing to harvest them and the forum propaganda campaign they are waging will not stop as a result.

Be vigilant. Fly safe. Enjoy our high yields brothers. We will prevail.

Except, Olleybear, your prevalence means ever lower payouts for everyone in your profession. So those higher yields are literally going to ruin your market.

Not so sure I'd be so smug.

What's this GÇ£dieingGÇ¥ people keep talking about?
Some kind of new dice-rolling mechanic for WIS?

Olley your answer doesn't account for the increase in miners due to it being the path of no resistance. You're implying miners attain some equilibrium with their environment.

I don't believe that's a "given" here.