I am not saying logistically its easy, however the amount of isk risked to destroy high value targets is far too low.
I will use this example and there are hundreds if not thousands of them on zkillboard, A 600m isk hulk is killed by 5 Catalyst that cost 11m each, That’s not even close to balanced isk vs reward,
Of course it’s balanced.
The miner gets ore if he doesn’t get ganked.
The ganker gets nothing if she doesn’t gank.
It’s not risked. It’s carefully calculated into the cost of doing business. The easiest way to make yourself immune from ganking is to simply not be worth the money to gank.
So… cheap ships can’t blow up more expensive ones anymore?
Do you know that enough frigates can bring down entire battleships on their own? Is the concept of swarming a larger less mobile entity known to you? Do you think it’s crazy that small agile ships can work together to bring down larger vessels?
Save it. You’re going to say “of course not!!” and talk a lot of crap to essentially say that it’s not okay if gankers do it. Maybe you’re going to act all tough to show everyone what a baddie you are. Maybe you’ll try to look really smart and explain to a serial ganker how ganking really works.
I can tell you that whatever you do, it’s not going to work, because you are simply not clever and wise enough to actually argue ganking. The killmail you’re presenting as some kind of “proof” already says it all. What do you want to tell us with this? Putting expensive faction modules on your ship makes blowing it up the gankers fault? Do you seriously expect things to go well, if you don’t accept that other humans will want to kill you and steal everything you have?
Where are you going with your big question? What if it’s too low risk and the devs don’t do anything about it? What if I have literal millions of catalysts in my hangar bay and equip them with dirt cheap tier 1 modules just so I can even cost-effectively dunk retrievers with basic strip miners, for days on end? Would this surprise you? Would you quit EVE? Would you try to stop me?
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I wonder if a turbo miner might have any motivation to dishonestly claim ganking is “way too low risk”. What if Highsec ice mining is way too low risk? What if Hakokeed just wants to mine more, without any risk?
If we’re talking about risk, miners aren’t the ones coasting. Highsec mining runs on razor-thin margins, while ganking operates with stopwatch-perfect timing and almost no downside. One side loses everything for a mistake, the other side loses a Catalyst they already factored in.
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It’s only a mistake the first time. If you get ganked again after that, you deserve it.
Really though, with the wealth of information available that people can read to learn what not to do, is it really a mistake to ever get ganked? I could understand a total noob that is still learning the mechanics, but if you’ve trained up to any decent hauling or mining ship, you should know better by that point.
Thats a buch of BS. Its riskless. Minimal investment, accepted loss of said minimal investment, near guaranteed win. The only reason ganking is still a thing, its because of alts that CCP wants to see in Omega. That’s it.
Mine more than five jumps from Jita and you can go nonstop for months and not encounter a single ganker. Highsec is vast, there are only so many gankers available to patrol the belts from you eco-terrorists.
My Catalyst costs no more than 2 millions.
Whoever flies a 600million Hulk ought to be knowledgeable enough to avoid gankers or be able to fly what he can afford to lose.
I can’t lose 600millions so that’s why I don’t fly a Hulk. My most expensive ship is my Catalyst. I can afford to lose it so I fly it.
Gankers are like magpies, they like shiny bling. Don’t fly shiny bling and they’re not a problem.
How do you figure that?
Mining costs are negligible. You have a few cheap consumables, taxes, and the renewal fee on your mining permit - that’s about it. You keep almost all of the revenue. How is that a razor-thin margin?
He needs to be taught to copy and paste 
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And don’t forget: Minerals that someone mines himself are free! After a bit of initial investment, the margin is exorbitantly huge!!!111
You really are a poor miner if you pay for one of those.
There’s no need to denigrate law-abiding miners.
Where is that mining permit in the TOS?
Cry harder.
It’s only illegal if you get caught. A smart miner isn’t getting caught.
Yes, as it turns out. You can still fail mechanically even with months of preparation and homework, because surviving/avoiding a gank also needs twitch play in a game that does not typically rely on reflexes.
LOL!
Nah, bro. If you’re at the point where you need twitch play to get through a gank, you’ve already failed. The point at which you would have avoided that was 5 decisions back.
A gank is the end result of multiple bad decisions on your part.
