It’s slowly happening. I have my three mining toons. Mining mains. I had promised myself this was going to be it. As I’m getting closer to Rorqual on my main and exhumers just finished I found myself actively searching the character bazaar for a 4th… a 5th… actually mathing out the APM needed to manage a mining fleet of 4 hulks and a rorqual. Seeing the nerfs to solo rorqual mining and the buffs to boosting… justification for more exhumer alts. Cheaper skilling into exhumers… Justification.
The anger I get from my mining friends is that they go pop very quickly now. Which in and of itself feels disappointing.
I’d rather see them not have a panic, and instead have their old 3 asb tanks. That way a response fleet can’t just chill and say “relax, we’ve got X minutes until they can even shoot him”. The pilot can tank a solid fleet, but eventually he’ll break if he doesn’t get help.
Now, you look at them sideways and they go into hull. Which just feels like a cheap thrill for the attackers and a disappointing welp for the rorqual pilot.
