Just have an alt in a gank-fit catalyst standing by. That'll surprise the bumber & no doubt harvest some very tasty tears.

Not afk mining, doing laps around the item being mined does not work and W.O.W.?

My issue is not with the act of bumping but not being able to respond in a way other than pay or leave. To me this has been exploited enough and needs to be fixed.

Will someone at CCP please allow miners defend (destroy) the bumpers ship without Concord intervention. As it is now all miners hands are tied and MUST submit to their extorsion tactics with no means of defense.


P.S. If this should be posted elsewhere please let me know...thanks

Won't anyone think about the asteroids? One day asteroids are going to stop appearing from thin air and then what will we do? We are a society dependent on minerals and when the asteroids are gone, so too will be the minerals. We must consider alternative energy solutions. Quickly, CCP, implement corn farming in PI so I can refine T2 ethanol.

1. In what way am I an "undesirable"?

2. Why is your opinion about my desirability more important than others'?

3. Why should I get a ban if I do not violate the EULA?

4. How am I interrupting others' game play by improving it?

5. Is it "game play" if they're AFK?

Will someone at CCP please allow miners defend (destroy) the bumpers ship without Concord intervention. As it is now all miners hands are tied and MUST submit to their extorsion tactics with no means of defense.

Is this directed at me? If so, I have a few questions.

1. In what way am I an "undesirable"?
2. Why is your opinion about my desirability more important than others'?
3. Why should I get a ban if I do not violate the EULA?
4. How am I interrupting others' game play by improving it?
5. Is it "game play" if they're AFK?

Thanks!

And here is the next demand after they made ganking unprofitable.

Have you considered moving to another system or region?

Or using a pair of webifiers?

[Scorpion, 2x Quad Webber]
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II

Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II

[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I

Have you considered moving to another system or region?

Or using a pair of webifiers? [Industrials work too.]

[Scorpion, 2x Quad Webber]
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II

Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II

[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I

Will someone at CCP please allow miners defend (destroy) the bumpers ship without Concord intervention. As it is now all miners hands are tied and MUST submit to their extorsion tactics with no means of defense.


P.S. If this should be posted elsewhere please let me know...thanks

webifiers are exactly the reason why highsec bumping seems like a problem. webifiers and bumping are two main ways to affect the speed of a hostile ship. webifiers get you concorded in highsec...bumping doesn't. So, your post, while failing in its aims, at least brings up this central inconsistency. If ccp made hostile webifying legal in highsec, I'd cease my opposition to hisec bumping, actually. It would simultaneously remove the inconsistency while providing a means of defense.

You can suicide gank them

After all there are no consequences for doing this, right?

Oh dear well you'd better join a corp then

There's no risk. But there are known consequences,also known as 'costs'.

Nope, the bumper & friends will just get on the Concord killmail when the catalyst pilot goes global, a gank catalyst probably costs more than a bumping cruiser and won't get an insurance payout, the bumper will if the ship is insured which they usually are.

Where are your tears now?

I'm in a corp?

In all seriousness though, there are plenty of ways to defend against bumpers. Go mine in low/null and shoot them.

In all seriousness though, no. They don't want to because they don't want to be interrupted in THEIR game play style. Whether shooting or bumping. Your logic is wrong.

Well then web away! Aggressing a corpmate isn't a CONCORD offence.


(You knew that, right?)

For anyone curious as to what's behind this thread:

http://www.minerbumping.com/

Why should my game play style be interrupted then, pray tell?

Why should my game play style be interrupted then, pray tell?

In all seriousness though, there are plenty of ways to defend against bumpers. Go mine in low/null and shoot them.

Because your game play style was not being interrupted by miners. You're simply annoying people. That's not game play, that's undesirable behavior.

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A flood of low end minerals, keeping high sec prices down, is undesirable. James is helping to curb an economic problem that exists in New Eden. It's just unfortunate that he's not able to have a larger impact, and that the only affordable option CCP allows is bumping. :(

Because your game play style was not being interrupted by miners. You're simply annoying people. That's not game play, that's undesirable behavior.