No this point has been stated and is common knowledge that if you engage in hi-sec Concord comes and destroys the low cost minimal effort high dps ships used to kill the high value mission fit billion isk ship.

Yes ships should be able to be ganked but they should not yield a profit. The cost should be greater for the ganker as it would still allow to gank for revenge or spite just not profit. Just as it is now with the retriever.

But the retriever is in no way similar to a "high value mission fit billion isk ship". The equivalent is a T2 fit T1 battleship, which are extremely unprofitable to gank. If you want to bling your ship out, of course its going to be profitable to gank.

A ship built for battle and combat is more resilient than a ship built for mining? Surely that must be wrong.

The whole problem with your argument or the other guy's is this.
How is it balance when the gankers risk nothing?

Your various ganking pets, like CODE, don't care about losing isk. Which makes it obvious they are being supplied by the endless moon-goo faucet. When there are no risks to the ganker, and he loses nothing, ganking becomes a meaningless sport, with mostly new players taking the brunt of it.

In the end I made up a ship netting me 100M+ per hour doing L4 while it costed below 1B and it'd cost several billions if I just went the "basic carebear-I-buy-the-bling" way.

Have been scanned several times, nobody ever bothered to gank it despite the multiple deadspace and faction mods.

Given how often mining ships explode, its no wonder ORE retrofit them with more tank.

That's all OP will ever amount to.

Why? Why shouldn't it be possible to profit from robbing people of their valuables?
Also, how on earth are you going to enforce that to make sure that what is required to kill a ship depends entirely on the value of what the victim is carrying, rather than on the stats of what he has fitted?

What you describe is not exactly ISK tanking. ISK tanking would be paying to survive (reactive process)

Putting below 1B on a freighter is a proactive and complimentary process, that is you choose not to enable a fat "Target Painter" on your ship.

Given the amount of whining that occurs when a mining ship explodes you'd think that they were exploding at a prodigious rate, yet CCP have stated that the explosion of mining vessels is at a historical low.

Who remembers the initial version of the Doomsday Device? It was an AoE weapon that wiped out entire subcap fleets.

What did the players do about it? They cried about it.

What did CCP do? No, they did not tell the players to HTFU. They changed it quickly.

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No. The expression "ISK Tanking" describes the relationship of a ship's tank and a ship's cost. This relationship is proportional, non-linear and existent. What it is not is non-existent, anti-proportional, linear or random. And it has got nothing to do with sec. status.

All right, all right.

Who remembers the initial version of the Doomsday Device? It was an AoE weapon that wiped out entire subcap fleets.

What did the players do about it? They cried about it.

What did CCP do? No, they did not tell the players to HTFU. They changed it quickly.

So whatever arguments players might have will crying about it do, too.

I've never seen "ISK Tank' used in a way as to refer to the cost of the ship.

Not really.
It took them a loooong while to change it, and it didn't happen until it was shown to be massively out of line as a result of supercap proliferation, ot the point where chain-DDDs were wiping out capfleets.

Here in EVE have seen it only as such, when players say their ship was expensive and so it should also tank well.

What they say is true. Titans were DDing dread fleets out of the sky, it was impossible to fight them.

that's called "being wrong".

Just because I dropped 200m on a cruiser doesn't mean it should tank like a BS.

Sure it is true. I was not trying to tell a lie. Just making a point after Jonah Gravenstein needed to comment on players' whining. Now he wants me to stay on topic...

Bizarrely enough I was on topic, people whine about suicide ganking and say that it shouldn't be profitable.

Did you actually read the OP with its edited and out of context CCP quote? The OP is a stealth whine from someone who thinks that it shouldn't be.

Freighters are for hauling bulky cargo, not stuffing full of bling that you'd be better off carrying in a blockade runner, transport ship or Orca. In the time it takes a freighter to make one trip another ship will have probably made 3 or 4. The ships required to gank a freighter aren't exactly cheap, given the amount of ships required. A tier 3 BC full fitted and used for ganking is easily double the price of a BC used for PVE, and it's guaranteed to explode, courtesy of Concord.

Whitehouse posting about relevance...the irony is crushing.