Here's how to make mining enjoyable: a bullet, a gun, your mouth

That would work if you could actually make every single exhumer/mining barge pilot do as such.

But you can't.

Sign me up. ******* off the pirates can only be fun. And if they shoot my Bantams, who cares. I have dozens of those. No literally. I have dozens. Fully T1 Fitted, ready to be sacrificed.

Don't you think that switching from a Hulk to a Bantam is somehow "giving in"?

*points and laughs at the people mining in Bantams*

Why Bantams specifically? There are other really cheap mining vessels, like Ospreys, that wouldn't be worth the sec loss.

The problem with this, is that Eve has a large amount of players, usually the highbears, who do not engage with the game community in any way. They won't read this, and won't get involved.

Worse than that, they won't even know what Hulkaggedon is.

How do I know?

Because the upcoming Hulkageddon is Hulkageddon FIVE. If highbears actually read these forums and read the warnings, it wouldn't have got past Hulkageddon one.

Don't worry. I can build the Bantams I need myself. If it means we can launch a counter-griefing operation against the suicide gankers, I'm fine. I'm currently building a ****load of Bantams and Bursts for no reason other than this. I support this all the way!

Sure. Just seems like not a lot of payoff for the headache.

I wonder who will be laughing in the end when you sit there in your rocklaser frigate, but hey. It's a sandbox, so enjoy it!

*points and laughs at the people mining in Bantams*

Why Bantams specifically? There are other really cheap mining vessels, like Ospreys, that wouldn't be worth the sec loss.

ITT: carebears planning a mining op in bantams "for the lulz"

I'm only trying to make this sound stupid, there are no tears involved good sir.

I'd congratulate you if you get this work, but i'm afraid there will be enough exhumers to go around when hulkageddon starts off.

I'm already having fun just at the thought of this. It needs to be made official within the game! I'll let my corp-mates know of this, so we can possibly get more Bantam-Miners!!!

I don't care if I wind up having 200 losses during Hulkageddon. I don't care about that. I just want to make fun of the ones killing miners.

I certainly seems like it's already starting to work.

You, my good sir, are a genius for coming up with this.

ITT: people who don't realize I started my career in python cartel... A corp where we spent an hour to arrange a carrier hotdrop on a Bantam once.

So, this is what's probably going to happen: Tiger is happily mining in a bantam, and suddenly 3 blinky red catalysts show up on overview and gank a hulk next to Tiger.
Tiger lulz in local, saying: HA! You didn't gank me! Because im in a bantam! LULZ

hmm, no, I think you're underestimating our scouts and overestimating the number of people who will actually be mining in bantams for the duration of this magnificent event.

Sounds good, my smartbombs will love you

Winning EVE by losing? You go girl.

Stop thinking like a scrub and just go out mining in a battleship, or mine in low/null.

A few points are relevant here.

If you mine in a Bantam you will be mining less per cycle but somewhat to a certain extent offsetting the chances of being ganked sure.

However,

The gauged success of an event is sometimes measured by how many people are affected by the said event.

The fact the event will make you choose to mine in a Bantam instead of a Hulk means the event will affect you.

To that extent the fact you will change your modus operandi means regardless of what tears you believe you will extract it is indeed you who will be disadvantaged and at a loss mineral extraction wise.

Lets not kid ourselves here - regardless of what Lulz you think you will experience mining in a Bantam deep down your going to be mad that your yield per cycle and cargo space suck balls.

Go check the yield on a rokh compared to a bantam and a hulk and tell me which one the Rokh is closer too while being significantly less likely to get suicide ganked.

so your plan boils down to not mine during hulkageddon. You'll sure show us!

Every year someone tries to organize the miners to "do something". And every year it fails. Why? Because the miners don't want to do something, that's why they're mining in the first place.

The fact remains that at a psychological level the event is going to make you consciously change your normal style of play through trepidation of being ganked.

Thus regardless of what you do the event will affect you and influencing people to change what they do in a game can be regarded as a measure of success.

Deep down you will be irritated that the actions of others means you feel inclined to play a game in a different way that what normally tickles your fancy.

I don't think you really get who is the loser in this situation but if LOL@U I MIEN IN BANTAM makes you feel empowered then I guess I could treat you to some new crayons too.

Anyway it's obvious you are trolling because no one is that dim but have fun shiptoasting; it's obvious you aren't actually willing to do anything noteworthy.

The impending actions of others have fondled you into action and subsequently you have taken time out of your life to conjure this marvellous devious, scheming and cunning plan.

The fact remains that in a game you pay to play the actions of others are influencing you to change your play style.

The loss is yours.

You want to drink Wine but the threat of your humble mining vessel being violenced means you have to drink Water instead.

It is also moot to suggest explaining this to you is shedding tears.

By these examples it shows you do not know how ganking works. There are certainly ways you can get back at gankers, but the above examples are certainly not it.

PS. i'm of course not telling any of the tricks you can **** us off with :)

what works fine tiger? You think i'm raging at my computer right now? Because you're trolling me so hard and I can't cope with the thought of having only bantams to shoot in januari?

I'm just trying to get a point across - you won't affect Hulkageddon at all.
You know that, and respond with "I'm trolling u guise *grinz*"

facepalm.

Summary of thread.

Hulkageddon isn't just about exploding hulks. Anything that even slightly related to mining is fair game including Orcas if you really want to blow enough ISK with a group of people to take it out of the sky. Industrial ships too. Your bantams just provide people with a very soft target to explode with pretty much anything they have lying around.

I don't see how this is getting back at the people who participate in hulkageddon, the point of which is to make mining ships explode. You have not suggested anything to reduce the number of mining ship explosions.

Where I come from, trolls usually elicit some sort of emotional response from me, even if it's just an "ugh this sort of thing again" one. Reading Tiger Would's posts just makes my brain inform my eyes that they are not worth it, and skip down to the next reply. I think the only reason I read this thread is Singeabooty Raj.

I concur.

Hiding behind his futile words the truth is he is just another angry miner with a bee in his bonet and ants in his pants.

As a member of the Glorious Heretic Army from #1 system in EvE, Amamake.
We will gladly fill our killboard with Bantams, rookie ships, pods.

I have have just checked our killboard and we have only killed 67, Sixty Seven, Bantam's in the history of Heretic Army. We welcome the opportunity to increase this sad statistic.

Thank you

Still, it's a shame you won't post with your main. i'm feeling like ganking something

I enjoy posting in train-wrecks of threads because it sexually pleases me to be an activate participant in the self-driven embarrassment of yet another barely literate carebear.

This is what this thread is.

I fail to see the difference between killing a defenceless Bantam vs killing a defenceless Hulk. The only difference is cost, neither is "more manly" or less pathetic than the other. It's all blowing up people's stuff.

I predict nothing will come of your pathetic attempts to waylay my event. Thousands of hulks will die, and nobody will care about your tryhard spamming of C&P and General discussion.

Move along sonny.

I beg to differ. I say the best way to enjoy the tears is to tank your exhumer as much as possible and mine to your heart's content. If you join fleet with FCs, WCs, and/or SCs that provide bonuses, then your tank will benefit from it.

The reasoning behind this is simple (two fold actually):

First, the stronger your tank, the more alpha it will take to kill your mining vessel. This means more ships needed (if flying anything smaller than a BC), better modules and ammo needed (if solo ganking), or more than one Brutix is required or perhaps a single Tempest or tier 3 BC that is fitted for maximum alpha damage (if it takes this much to kill your ship, you're doing an ok job).

Second, demand for minerals, modules, and ships increase with every ship lost. This means that if you have minerals posted in the sell orders, they will go out quicker as more ships are built to meet the demand. This should make it worthwhile to go out and mine in a Hulk while the event is running.

Of course, some gankers will scan their target for fits ahead of time to see what kind of damage is really needed so that they don't have to blindly gank to gauge their prey. If you find yourself being scanned (which is impossible to tell due to passive targeters unless the scout is stupid) then you have two options: stay and see how long you can survive or just run. More than likely you won't have time to run if you're not aligned and they are already on top of you with their "get-ready-to-be-pwned" gank ships.

This is a bad thing?

Internet spaceships are serious business. I want the people who fly internet spaceships to take me seriously because I too am serious business.

posting to confirm that i will be flying from system to system spreading the word.

so what do you dirty bears do when we extend geddon to 365 days a year?

Fun with hulkageddon:

Mine in groups of properly-tanked hulks. It's a lot more efficient to do this for a group than one-by-one, and having extra EHP makes the difference in whether or not you lose a ship.

Park a cloaked Falcon near your mining fleet. As soon as the gank starts they'll get a criminal tag and your falcon can lock and jam them, spoiling the gank AND getting you a killmail. Troll away, collect any tears that come, and enjoy the highs that come with beating other people in Eve instead of mining rocks.

edit: I gave up mining at all months ago but I do think I'll spend HAG prowling the belts looking for likely targets so that I can ***** some concord killmails and possibly save a few miners. Why? Because it'll be funny as hell.

I think that this is a wonderful idea. I applaud the OP for his inventiveness , it really is nice to see carebears capable of thinking outside the box.

As a participant in the upcoming Hulkageddon the prospect of many bantams mining the belt fills me with joy.

Did I mention that my neutral alt (the one that scans hulks , that I warp to to gank the hulks) will be flying a bantam?

My neutral scanning alt already flies a bantam, amusing isn't it?

I like this one. This would be hilarious as hell, if I had the fitting skills to fly a falcon I'd do this in a second.

How many Bantams would it take to gank a Hulk?

Actually - it would be pretty funny wouldn't it?

This is brilliant, I will be mass producing Bantams as soon as possible.

The fact that so many "PVPers" are raging and crying at the mere prospect of this occurring makes me smile. To get even the organiser of hulkageddon on here crying is brilliant, I applaud you sir!

I shall spread the word!

Yes we are so mad! The tears will flow like a raging river! Build lots of them!

This is brilliant, I will be mass producing Bantams as soon as possible.

The fact that so many "PVPers" are raging and crying at the mere prospect of this occurring makes me smile. To get even the organiser of hulkageddon on here crying is brilliant, I applaud you sir!

I shall spread the word!

Oh you don't need to pull off your brilliant plan to see my face. I'll post it just because I think you're an awesome guy.

This thread gives me ideas....

I think if I'm lucky, I can get my entire corp to jump on this train. If that happens, we're one step closer to achieving our primary objective. Time to produce more Bantams and Miner I's. No need to lose too much on this.

Oh, I'd also suggest that you get a spai to apply to this corp so you can be super-leet in getting intel. I'll even give them a supaspai medal when it's all over if you like.

I do not expect that you not point and laugh Mr.Would, I expect you to die.

The best way to extract tears is to actually FIT YOUR BLOODY SHIPS for the risk. Best laugh I've had was with some failganker that pew'd on my Hulk with a T2 fit Brutix and promptly was rewarded with CONCORDokken. Me? I continued my ice mining, looted his wreck, and made some isk on his fail.

Fit the ships correctly and it won't be the miner's tears that flow.

But we all know that won't happen.

Ooh. We've got Goonswarm's attention now. This day keeps getting better and better.

As I walk in a narrow line with the others, relying on the touch of my comrade's shoulder for guidance due to my night blindness, I come to the realization that life is truly wonderful. I have lost my house, my property. My friends, parents, and cousins have been executed, and my wife reduced to a common *****. I do not know where my children are; I just know that my masters need more soldiers. I also know that they need the ore we extract from the mining shafts they force us to work.

The daily gruel we get is cold and stringy; no surprise, as our shattered microeconomy affords us nothing but the expired leftovers not even suitable for the masters' livestock. We mine not with picks and machinery, but with loose stones and our own bare hands.

So I walk. I walk, and upon hearing another command barked by one of the masters' lieutenants, I turn my head to meet the voice's direction. I smile. My lips are cracked with thirst, and my teeth are loose from the overseers' savage blows, but I smile. I know what true happiness is like. This is the best day of my life.



PS: Tiger Would's and Anshio Tamark's IPs are the same.

IP addresses cannot be shared on the public network that is the internet, you can have duplicates in different networks like local ones as long as the duplicates are on separate subnets but out in the public interbutts at a single moment every address is unique from the other.

But are the mad ravings of a schizophrenic the same person, really? Or, are they multiple broken people all wrapped up in one crazy shell?

*toying with the idea of donating a prize for most mining Bantams destroyed*

You could spend weeks organizing a few people to all dock the hulks up and fly bantams

or - you could tank your hulk . Crazy right. Who woulda thought of it.

Hulkageddon is a good thing for all of some miners even with the gankers. Gankers they lose ships, and miners and industrialists make ships. If anything more ships will be bought because more people will shooting at the miners.

Hm... Looks like I'm actually going to take part in the upcoming Hulkageddon unlike the previous years, where I just docked up and played something else. Please note, gankers, that I'll be cleaning up after your destruction. No need to let your pretty Salvage-loot lie around and gather dust.

Alright, Gollum, or Smeagol, whoever you are.

Yep, we replied, that means you're under our skin. If someone talks about something pertaining to me in the real world, I steadfastly ignore them instead of expending the huge effort of two breaths to talk to them. It's true, we're all really, really mad. That's what a response is, right? getting someone mad? That's social interaction! the huge effort of clicking your thread and then typing a reply is just draining to me. Please, stop, I can't go on.

At least you managed to write something so stupid I actually read it, good effort.

OMG I have make discover. If make post on discussioning forum then great effect of replylt. In world of gaem this make huge impacts and of cry the veteran much.

I like that! And it doesn't need to last any longer than Hulkageddon does.

Yes, it need to be as long as Hulkageddon, but it doesn't need to be longer than Hulkageddon. If Hulkageddon lasts for a week, this needs to last at least a week. If they extend Hulkageddon's duration, this needs to be extended to match Hulkageddon's duration at all times (not necessarily if they somehow decide to shorten Hulkageddon. We'll just keep our new duration)

circlejerk between the same guy's two alts lmao

btw that evemail you got is a canned message, you're still nobody special

The struggle to sound coherent is almost tangible. I don't see any of the people who you have defined as "mad" or have "gotten under the skin of" as you describe. All I see are spectators of an amusing social self-emaciation if you will who comment here and there to get you to keep going. C&P is pretty slow to be feeding so low on the totem pole to be honest, but at least it's better than missions and complexes.

barges will still burn heh

The tears have started and there's still 4 weeks to go. Looks like Hulkageddon V will be the best yet.

OP is there a website or a channel for people to join or do your efforts only go as far as posting on a forum?

You just keep thinking we're the same person. It makes no difference to me. Truth be told, we don't know anything about each other.

When exactly?

I don't think Anshio will be up to helping with this. The quote below is from his corps description:

That said, we do not engage in Capsuleer versus Capsuleer. If that is the path you want to travel, then Avitus Lugus is not the place for you.

It's ok I has locators.

Good idea. We need to spread the word through as many media as possible. Maybe even go as far as to post "recruitment" ads on youtube?

The irony of this thread is that all the hulk pilots are reduced to frigates yet the pvpers lose nothing? Lol this is a pathetic attempt to set up a retaliatory event, in fact all you're doing is submitting to the fact that you're going to get ganked and so have decided to mine in a frig instead. Oh the tears.. just too much..

What happens when the pvpers decide to just ignore all the few and far-between bantams. Lets put it into perspective.. You go out to mine in your shiny fleet of bantams, taking in your pitiful yield whilst laughing and chortling amongst yourselves - "Silly silly pvpers! We've showed them!" 2 days have passed and still no pvpers come to gank you and all you hungry miners get bored. Then what? Then you get back into your hulks and you do what you do best. Thats when the ganking starts.

Funny thing is the op will probably quote me and say "Ahh your tears are delicious *grinz*"

Yes, they are aren't they?

facepalm.

/pats tiger on the head.

Don't think I've ever killed a Bantam before......

I say make an ingame channel and when hulkageddon starts we form a fleet and fill a system with these small mining ships or we could follow the hulkageddon fleets about and warn people that are mining about it

You should go mine the hell out of the Jita belts. That'll learn 'em.

I was kinda hoping you'd help me set up the joke. Now I feel like I'm playing badminton by myself.

*angry face*

Oh, god. The images in my head from this are hilarious.
I can literally see this happening. 5 Hulks in 1 belt, gankers warp in on d-scan, hulks get out and bantams come in.
SURPRISE!!!

How will this be determined? Will it need an out-standing group of people who will judge every single practical joke objectively (as if that's ever gonna happen...), or will it be done exclusively through voting?

Considering he thinks mining in bantams is 'funny' and effective, I wouldn't hold out for any reasonable judgement ))))))

So your idea is to use 11+ accounts to make a guy look like he missed his target?

Who exactly is getting the joke played on them again?

I'd probably just blow you up while you slept.

i like the "hillbillageddon" name

armageddon for the hillbilly types that actually mine in eve lmao

I used to get a lot of comments from Joe and Socratic about how they were all laughing at me, while the rest of C&P were busy laughing at him.

So he is inviting folks of like minds to him, who may find the 'jokes' he has lined up hilarious. Why he would look *here* is beyond me as the assumed majority of folks on here find Hulkageddon hilarious and would find the ideas of his practical jokes at the very best 'interesting' in the same way as a non numismatist would find a fifty year old coin in a handful of change.

Only those people...the joke numismatists of EvE..will get and appreciate his practical jokes.

Maybe they lurk in C&P? Who knows. But those people are his actual audience.

At least he's trying to do something. For most high sec miners, hulkageddon is indeed a pain in the ass and it's pretty annoying to not be able to fight back. I mean, if we shoot back at the gankers with anything, we'll get concorded as well.

I know you will say that going to null sec would be a good option to do that. However, we need a pretty good PVP fleet to conquer a high sec system and have any chance of keeping it and that is'nt an opportunity for my corp or me, atm thus why, i am in high sec.

Oh well, gonna have to mine elsewhere, like in a worm hole for example.

I predict 5 people in barges laughing their asses off while in the rest of eve, barges will burn

also nice prize pool, almost a bil

so you're trying to suggest that suicide gankers are hillbillies, compared to the sophisticates that mine like mere proles

lmao what peasants, you can't even raise a billion

Somewhere along the line......it has been forgotten that EVE is a GAME. This ALL sounds like, on both sides, nothing but a neurotic obsession.

I'm ignoring both (apparently 2 events) this time around , as per usual.

What a load of nonsense it's become.

I'd rather just play the game and make ISK and buy some spaceships to fly. That's it for me.

Now im looking forward to hulkageddon, as a carebear i always take the week off from Eve now i have something to do, fly about in a bantam playing jokes on Hulkageddon people this is going to be fun. Anyone do me a good deal on 20 bantams i plan on losing a few

I find it rather perplexing that those of us who aren't miners, and by extent not industrious leaders of the EVE business community, make enough money to not have to shop around for a discount on less than two dozen low-tier Tech I frigates.

Perhaps you should take another week off, so that you can put in some overtime at your McJob to be able to afford to sell a PLEX for ISK?

Hostile? No. Objective? Yes.

If these people weren't lazy loser degenerates, and actually bothered to apply enough Axe bodyspray to mask their odor for the duration of a job interview, they wouldn't be "economically disparaged."

See, this is exactly why we predators will always be winners, while you, and the foodstamp-collecting ninnies you argue for, will always be losers. It's also the reason you mine in high-sec; lapping up the scraps in an MMO videogame is arguably the last avenue for you to experience the feeling of productivity. The rest of us do well enough that we don't have to put up with the soul-crushing monotony of riskless high-sec grinding. We can buy any ships or modules we want, while you're forced to play solitaire during Hulkageddon, and permanently unsubscribe if, God forbid, you lose your one and only exhumer.

I assure you that I'm not the cause of your wish to vomit. If anything, it's your body's desire to purge itself of the ignorance of your uneducated reasoning. That, or the tree bark you had for dinner, peasant.

See? He called gankers Hillbillies! That's gotta get to you guys!

attn: liars re: this thread

as you can see by the "warp bantams in" "funny idea" this guy's version of "funny" is, well, unique and you should play to the judge with your stories rather than wasting time crafting ones that would be funny to a normal person

I see thousands of Bantam miners grouped together being obliterated by cheap T1 BS with plenty of large smartbombs, and lots of tears.

That's the funny thing here, I don't think he does. As far as I know (and I'm happy to be corrected) he just wants a laugh - preferably at the gankers expense.

I say good on him , I'll be flying for the other side but I can assure you that I'll laugh as loud as these guys if they pull a stunt on me.

Surely it's better than cowering in stations wishing the nasty pi-wates would go away?

Interesting concept... like the idea

Maybe being tackled by a Bantam would be funnier

I'm in

Just to make it worthwhile, I'll match the prizes for documented "pranks" that actually *are* funny. Hell, may even toss up some isk for related stories that are funny.


Also, collecting some stuffs together to donate for "most batman kills" during the main event.

LOL OP thinks gankers target hulks to offset the loss of there own ship

So, make it 3 events: Bantamaggeddon will be starting in January too, in parallel with Hulkaggeddon. I tell you, this will mean a lot of teeeeaaaarrrsss :D


No, seriously, do you think this is ever going to work? You had to reach the hardcore miners for that and 96% of the miners don't even login in the forums or have them ever visited. At least half of them don't even know how to access them.

I don't belong either to the one nor the other side and still I will say, this isn't going to work. There will be Hulks everywhere, more than enough, not just Bantams.

*me prepares my shuttle for mining*

Nice Idea. I had requested the CCP make a killer Hulk that could attack with say it's lasers or my be missiles that would nor be known until it is too later for the attacker.

Davinthan

Now that would be fun. The Killer-Hulks strike back! THAT would be some real surprise to the Hulkageddon fleets. instead of ganking Hulks to being ganked by Hulks lol

Unfortunately, like the mindset of most carebears is you won't get them into that kind of fun. They would prefer to think they are safe by taking "precautions" or just staying docked instead of striking back. Though I had like to see that, would make Hulkageddon itself a more fun event.

Even better would be, to selfdestruct your Hulk when you see the fleet jumping in (you might be dead anyway)... the tears would be on those not getting their killmails and the surprise on their faces every ISK worth lol

@Tiger: Did I catched the spirit of HIllbillageddon? :D

We? You and your imaginary friends aka alts?

"We have discovered EvE-Online about 2 years ago" and this is the first post about Eve ever. Looks like I was right.

Imperial Academy [IAC] from 2011.12.07 12:13 to this day

Pretty hard to take anyone seriously when they are too scared to post on their main.

"If your corporation or alliance feel like further spicing up this prize pool, please contact "Tiger Would" by EvE-mail."
And of course it is an advantage if you want to receive prizes for this "event" :) Good luck!

could someone total up the number of posts in this thread that are not by the OP or mocking the idea

you probably don't need to be able to count very high

This thread is a crime and I think the OP should be punished for it.

As good a place to start as any...



https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=45612&find=unread

Neither do bad posters, but apparently theres no stopping you..

I underlined the part that's worth ridiculing you over.

Hulkageddon counter gank .... with 100 Velators and their single light drone!

Tiger I think you should give consideration to using Tormentors instead of Bantams.

The mere name of that ship akin to what you are trying to achieve will surely help milk more tears.

"EOE group contains 21 members, all real life friends and/or family members. We are all experienced gamers who have played many MMO in a organized fashion, bringing people together. We all have a special place in our hearts for strategic gaming."

Thats right, 21 Bantams are going to ruin Hulkageddon..

This joke thread isn't very funny.

As much as people may be having a go at the OP I think its a fun idea and that everyone arguing for one way or the other is kind of missing the point. No matter how much or how little effect this actually has at the end of the day its still a player taking a situation, making something new and interesting out of it and inviting people to join in, which is something I think should be applauded no matter which side of the fence it comes from.

And for the record I've been a pirate for over 3 years now and I'll be out violencing miners during hulkageddon just like other people, but if they can get me with something like this then I'll just laugh right along with them then get right back to the boat violence.

billy bob looks like we gots us some veldspar

When i found out the name "Hillbillageddon" was not a funny joke but more the actual description from where all the ideas came from i laughed very hard

Way to go m8
Go for it line up all the bantams and see your self and all your pals get blown away by rifters instead.

The only way to stick it to the gankers is make yourself ALOT harder to actually be ganked not easier.
You were already givin the perfect idea how to do it but just dismiss it like its nothing which suits the Hillbilly title i guess.

Just go use the dmn rokh's and actually make it more of a challenge for both sides for a change.

Well there are all sorts of things to do during Hulkageddon in counter to their ploys...but too many of tehm can easily swing back the other way.

Still...

equip every one of the bantam group with jammers or tackling equipment. As soon as they shoot for Hulkaeedon score, your job becomes to makes sure they stay to greet CONCORD. New timers are pretty short.


Bantams are leiglibele to be shot for Hulkageddon scores but best jokes may involve sacrificial Hulk. Or do they?
How about a fleet of reppers? at very close safe point or cloaked. Probably have to have first reppers be something else already onsite, since real reppers will be delayed by flight or uncloak for up to 35 seconds. Or can some of the more creative types figure out how to web 2-3 hulks or Orca and 3-4 Hulks? The idea here is DELAY the Hulk/Orca kill until CONCORD shows. Hey have that Bantam tackling squad show up too.

You know, 8 out of the 17 prior posts on this page alone were by Tiger Would. o_O

I haven't been keeping up with the thread to notice if someone else had already said this.

I usually lump all my responses into a single post. Just right-click the posts you want to directly reply to, select "Open link in new tab/window," and then copy/paste the code from there into your new post.

Saves on internet ink and does our part for the environment, you know?

tl;dr

A travesty.

http://minmatar.eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=65559&m=12&y=2011&scl_id=22

I for one am bumping this delicious thread. OP's inability to understand whats going on here is fun. I liked the part about megalomania. I want to poke it some more. Consider this a free bump to your...cause.

the fact that you refer to yourself as "we" is actually unsettling. But do go on.

yes, total up all the non-you posts that aren't mocking you

hint: this one is mocking you

if there was any 'we' theyd at least be posting with their own sockpuppet accounts

i enjoy this topic i really do.
had alot of tearz of joy while rolling over the floor.

dont even waste isk items what so ever on this event to counter it its all just a waste of time

for industrialist i see oputunity

huks and maki are needed so they will get more expensive ore and mineral market takes a boost
aswell does the ice market.

so let them shoot hulks if your a miner well join hulkageddon yourself make some profit durign t and after the event.
you cant stop it either its organised by goons so this is going to be one hell of a ride i wil lbe enjoying myself during the event thats for sure

i might donate soem prizes for the first few bantam kills ( just for ***** and giggles)

fly safe or drunk and wreckless

Thats a waste of good material there, brah!

If you are able to somehow infiltrate a hulkageddon party you best be using your position to leverage something more damaging than intel.

Ghandi never pulled any 'pranks' and EvE and Ahimsa are, frankly, incompatible.

Just sayin...

OH!
I get it now!
For days I have been reading through this thread, trying to figure out what was happening. The OP kept saying things like "we will sit in our Bantams, laughing at the gankers" and referring to it as a "joke". I have been sitting here thinking, "Wait... aren't jokes funny? Don't you laugh at things that are funny?"

Then it suddenly occurred to me...

Years and years and YEARS ago... (yes, I am old... probably older than most of you)... I saw a kid who went to high school with me getting a "swirly" on a nearly daily basis from a small group of idiotic jocks. They picked on this poor kid because he was lacking in social graces, athletic ability, fashion sense, etc... you know the type.

It was sad, really. I, myself, did not have the social clout to keep this poor kid from getting his head dunked each day, so I was powerless to stop it.

One day, he got a "clever" idea. He started wearing ratty t-shirts and threadbare jeans to school. He would dress in his worst clothes, looking rather ridiculous and... well... bad. Then, after getting his swirly, he would "mock" the guys who did it to him. He would pretend that their efforts were in vain because they were getting his cheapest, worst clothes wet instead of his nice school clothes. It was sad, because as he "laughed" at the jerks doing this to him, you could tell from the cracking of his voice and the shininess of his eyes that he was actually on the verge of crying, but he clung to the "joke" that he "played" on his tormentors as his "clever revenge". He INSISTED that he got one over on those guys, but you could see in his eyes that he was deluding himself. No one else laughed. No one else thought that he won, or that he came out on top. Eventually, I think the jerks felt bad for him, and left him alone.

This has obvious parallels to what is happening in this thread except for the following things:
1) Imaginary spaceships being blown up in a game is not bullying,
2) The guys who blow up the spaceships are not jerks, per se... they are playing a game and not actually hurting anyone.
3) They are not going to feel bad for you, OP, and they are not going to leave you alone.

They don't care that you are wearing your worst clothes (i.e. the Bantams)... and we can hear the tears through your laughter.

Incidentally, I do not take part in hulkageddon. I smile when I see that it is on, amused, and pleased that I play a game where the players make their own content, but I then do things that are profitable and more fun. So if you mark me with the flag "ganker", well... have fun with that. I am merely a passive observer.

Oooohhh the NO U rebuttal. Ok, I admit, you beat me. Time to recover and lick my wounds.

As I said, I am hurt and offended and will now need 2 days to lick my wounds. My saliva isn't very regeneration-inducing. I'm a smoker. Oh and check out Charanista Vaurentas post again, you might even get something out of there.

Read half the thread. OP is an idiot. Basic summary of the thread is this:

OP: Gankers are planning to run around shooting miners in the foot
OP: To grief the gankers, we will amputate our feet so that they cannot be shot!
Ganker 1: Miners are not organised enough to collectively amputate their feet on cue
OP: lol ganker tears!
Ganker 2: You know amputating your foot is worse than having it shot right?
OP: lol ganker tears!

Protip OP: You are not trolling the gankers by effectively giving in to them. They are not crying. You do not know what tears are. Pointing and laughing just makes you look stupid (see: swirly kid story, above).


All that said, the image of a gank fleet warping into a belt expecting to find one or more hulks and instead finding an army of bantams is quite amusing, so I hope some miners actually pull this off and put the fraps on youtube.

To be honest some of the walls of text in this thread make it hard for the illiterate to keep up. Not fair.

OMG DONT CLICK THAT LINK

MY EYES

Show me on the dolly where the goon touched you.

Great idea, however you may as well send me the top prize now, I've already won....


I consider the Goons fail attempt to gank my Navy Geddon last night as the cream of all ganker tears...Nothing can top it...
Although I do have to question the wisdom of bringing only 2 Tornados? Why did the third one fly off?
It wouldn't have helped, but at least you might have gotten me to half armor....


http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Thomas+Abernathy

A few thoughts.

1) to make things fun and laughable . . pretend to join a gank fleet and don't shoot. If the calculated the fleet to pop a ship by just a small margin, a few 'spyz' would make the difference.

2) I think the point is NOT about mining during events, NOT about making isk. Both sides claim moral victory in making FUN of the other side regardless of isk. Given that, the Hill Billies are winning since they are laughing and the 'griefers' are trying so desperately to make it seem like it doesn't matter. To the tune of 20 pages.

Anything that makes the game fun for you is a win

if making the fun hard for other folks is what makes it fun for you . . .so be it

oh and the spam in locals about the upcoming events has already started. The bots don't read the spam but then even the Hill Billies and Mechanoid Kryten agree they do deserve all the ganking that can be brought ot bear on them.

I donated half my Goon created profit from Ice to Griefergeddon, seemed appropriate.

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Yeah, Merry X-Mess and a Happy New Year.

Fly reckless - sort of. ;)

All the best.
Mad

Come across this for the more combat orientated pilots

Anti-Hulkageddon

Fly safe... fight smart

Wow...this thread.

Dude, I don't do hulkageddon, I don't mine either, I pretty much play MY game solo, but damn, this thread :S

You're not upsetting anyone, you're making no tears, you're only embarrassing yourself. I mean really! It started off a bit dodgy but could have had potential but after reading the rest of your posts I'm cringing so bad. It really is embarrassing.

Events no matter what they are are always cool, but you've pretty much killed your own event before it's even started with your childlike attitude. You've brought me all the way back to primary school and the annoying little brats and their way of arguing. Please, for your own sake, stop posting, hell, if you don't believe me, get one of your corp mates to read this and give you their opinion on your posting style.

It's nothing but an embarrassment to yourself.

Jesus, Mary , and Joseph this thread DIED back in December.

Can we just get rid of these idiotic forums please, CCP ??????????????????????????