What is it with you and ninja mining? There is a mining frig thing, use it. I get getting into people's space and messing with them, but what the stuff, mining? Then what run it all the way back to high sec?

3. Most small entities would not want a Tech moon popping up under their POS. They know it will get taken from them by a bigger entity well before the Tech output covers the value of the POS (if they even notice).

I can't believe you are actually excited about sneaking into someones space and mining. It would be like breaking into a house and stealing a bic pen out of their desk then giving yourself a hug about it.

Yes, steal from the unlimited font of ore available from Industry sites. That'll show them.

By the way, a more effective way to harass people in Nullsec would be to sneak in and take assets from them that have... well... actual value. Like ratting ships.

Take all you want, the real valuable stuff are in the sites and good luck getting in to those without being instagibbed on warpin.

You seem to have some wrong assumptions about the value of mining Technetium. A Tech pos makes 7.2 million ISK per hour. A Mack mining Veldspar in empire makes about 10M/hr last I checked.

100 units per hour. 24 hours a day. Look up market price for yourself and do the math.

Also notice what happened to the largest Tech holding Bloc in the game in your "historical link".

Goonswarm and Goonswarm affiliates (Goonswarm awarding Tech moons to alliances as an incentive for performance). Under the fiscal control of these new, more market savvy owners, Technetium drove higher prices than ever.

After the combined forces of OTEC (CFC, Pandemic Legion and NCDOT) collectively repelled a strike into PL Tech holdings by Against ALL Authorities and assorted southern forces with relative ease, it was decided that Hulkageddon (an event centered around the suicide ganking of Hulks) would go from a prize-based annual event organized by an assortment of suicide gank-loving volunteers to a permanent state of affairs with salaried rewards sorted by programs parsing through automatically generated killmail data. The motives for this were twofold: 1) the heavy amount of Technetium needed to build Hulks meant increased Hulk 'turnover' would send Tech prices through the roof and 2) the sheer infamy from doing such a thing.

By making the act of sucide ganking mining ships directly profitable with no coordination needed, Highsec space became an open hunting ground as hundreds of unaffiliated highsec pirates roamed the belts and jumpgates in disposable, high-damage ships looking for any mining vessel to put in their crosshairs. 'Hulkageddon Infinity', funded by Technetium profits, was by far the largest and most devastating event of its kind in New Eden history, as galactic mineral output as a whole took a massive drop as miners were simply too scared to mine.

In YC 113, in response to-increasing demand for Technetium-based products, manufacturers began mass producing starbase nuclear fusion reactors capable of synthesizing Technetium out of large amounts of Cobalt and Platinum. Normally ORE listened to loud demands of miners and answered by heavily revamping their line of mining ships, including the Procurer, Retriever, Skiff and Mackinaw to the effect of greatly increasing their durability. Just some of countless changes made to New Eden as a result of a once cheap and valueless element.

VFK is => thaddaway. Bring your hisec pubbies and do what needs to be done.

For example to all things that require technetium to make - create alternative reaction that will require something as common as vandanium.

You still have to set up a POS, manage it and collect your moongoo. it's not quite as passive as R&D agents for instance.

You seem to have no understanding of the actual events that that mediocre summary claims to represent.

It's written by volunteers

A blob of one. I'm not entirely sure you really get it.