I believe they call it "The lulz". More paranoid minds will say they have some master plan to rule the ice product market blah blah.
I think... well I think some men just like to watch the world burn.

Or it could be to make money. If you happen to know what type of ice will be hit next (like some goons do) you could buy it up before the price spike, then sell for 2-3x as much. Lets say you started with 10b, and reinvest all you money for each ice type.

10b x 3 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 240b

Not a bad chuck of change. Wish I was on the inside.

Get back at them by forming a cartel of hisec ice miners and severely undercutting the market by selling at insanely low prices. You won't make as much isk, but satisfaction is worth having.

whatever could we do to a cartel of highsec ice miners

also what's this stack of smartbombs, battleships, artillery, blasters, and brutixes doing in my highsec freighter

The Goons are apparently doing a little house cleaning of the botting pieces of **** that seem to over populate high sec ice fields. That, and making a crap ton of ISK in the process. If you're going to mine out there then be ready and accept the chance you're going to get nailed. It should be like this anyway instead of letting botters control the market. In the end we'll thank the goons for stirring the pot.

I believe they call it "The lulz".

anyone know the main reason of goons stopping high sec miners from mining? i know they are trying to slow down supercapital and capital fleets from moving with the oxygen isotope prices. but why gank miners who arent apart of it all?
caldari space and gallenete space is effected will the amarr space be next?

Whilst the ice interdiction worked for oxytopes to some extent, caldari space is largely unaffected and the whole 'widening it out to Caldari space' looks like a hoax thus far.

There was a short spike in white glace based on speculations, but looking at kills in caldari ice-mining systems in dotlan, noone gets killed and mackinaws are still mining by the thousands, just as prices are quickly dropping back to normal levels...

are you really asking why people shoot miners

really

I am though, why kill a miner?

Or it could be to make money. If you happen to know what type of ice will be hit next (like some goons do) you could buy it up before the price spike, then sell for 2-3x as much. Lets say you started with 10b, and reinvest all you money for each ice type.

10b x 3 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 240b

Not a bad chuck of change. Wish I was on the inside.

I am though, why kill a miner?

Oh, please.

The Goons aren't intelligent enough to make enough ISK themselves so they are resorting to extortion, it's no more complicated than that.

The Goons are apparently doing a little house cleaning of the botting pieces of **** that seem to over populate high sec ice fields.

ha, better have another look. Goons don't give a flying crap whether the miner is a bot or not... and honestly there are fewer bots in high sec belts than people exaggeratedly state.

ha, better have another look. Goons don't give a flying crap whether the miner is a bot or not... and honestly there are fewer bots in high sec belts than people exaggeratedly state.