This whole thing is kind of amusing to me.

Lately I've been living in one of the constellations that's on the Incursion list, and I spent a week there during the last time it had one. As such, I've got a little firsthand experience with Incursions (more specifically with Incursion fleets) that makes the joke actually work. Here, I'll explain it:

An Incursion starts in Constellation X. The Incursion fleets move in, bringing their multibillion-ISK ships with them. So far everything is working as intended. However, rather than finishing the Incursion within a couple of days (we'll say that three days is reasonable, for the sake of argument), the Incursion fleets don't attempt the mom spawn until the very end, keeping the Incursion open for the whole week.

The effect? Miners, missioners, explorers et al, who live in that constellation and have their resources all set up in that area are denied the ability to participate in their regular content. Most people seem to hold their patience and remain understanding about it for a while, approximately those three days I arbitrarily mentioned before. Patience, naturally, only lasts so long however and someone inevitably speaks up. However, when anything is said to the Incursion fleets, that person is told:

• "If we end the Incursion early, we lose ISK."
• "If it bothers you so much, then join an Incursion fleet and participate"
• "Try to gank us then. Otherwise HTFU and deal with it."
• "Pay us [insert amount of ISK] and we'll close the Incursion so you can go back to carebearing."
• "Go mission/mine somewhere else and stop crying that you can't do it here."

The last two items on that list are what really make the joke work, since that's what we've got going on here now with Incursion runners being denied the ability to do what they want where they want to do it and being told to either pay for the ability to continue as normal or go do it somewhere else.


TL;DR - Hisec Incursion fleets hold constellations hostage for their own profit and mock others who are "crying" about it, but when the roles are reversed and sites are held hostage, Incursion runners prove they actually cry louder and harder than anyone else. Hilarious.