Okey. Let’s look at the history:
- mining barge rebalance happened on 2012-08-03 dev blog
- zkillboard stats show that since August of 2012 procurer started to have many kills.
I won’t dig deeper into killboard but will look at the blog.
Oh… Just found this quote:
Procurer and Skiff will have good defence.
and this one:
The Procurer and Skiff are made for protection against suicide gank, or NPCs, by giving a large enough buffer to react to incoming attacks, while paying for that with a lower mining yield.
For some reason i feel that your version slightly differs from what CCP presented these changes with… 