No. But they’re not meant to be.
You said a mining battleship can’t even carry a single cycle. I’m telling you they can.
So nothing.
The majority are just farming. And if they have barges, an even greater majority will just farm.
If so many Alphas are pvp’ing? Why are you trying to argue: ‘if they had more isk they’d pvp more’.
Ganking ventures and barges is far far more uncommon than you’re trying to let on. Ganking is so uncommon that CCP had to introduce a whole new NPC type just to do the job of gankers.
It’s about 8-9mil isk/h more for a venture. 25-26mil isk/h more for a barge.
They clearly are though. They are here whining that they want more.
As an alpha your ship will never be as good as the enemies because of skill caps.
But that’s the point. They aren’t meant to be happy. They are meant to want more.
And? So what?
Alphas aren’t designed to do either. They have access to combat ships so they can access a wider variety of pvp. Alphas have in fact been nerfed for ratting too well.
Please read and understand:
Alphas are not here to farm. They are not here to create wealth. They are here to create and be content. Their ratting ability is merely a by-product of giving them access to pvp. Of giving them the ability to destroy wealth.
Everything else: Mining, industry, PI, exploration, trading is either completely inaccessible or greatly reduced accessibility.
They can even day trip in WH’s. They’re even less populated.
If there was some kind of benefit to having more barges in the game…but there isn’t. Especially not botting ones. Especially not ones that aren’t paying any money.
That’s the goal. But it’s only any good if they create content or pay-up.
It’s hard to see how barges do either.
They can ban bots but alphas can just create a new account.
So ccp have to restrict what alphas can do or nerf the ships they use.
The monetary cost of omega serves as a ceiling for how much a player wants to multi-box as well as makes more money for CCP.
Multi-boxing alphas don’t have such a ceiling and don’t make CCP any money.
There is nothing good to come from mining alphas. Just more minerals we don’t need, more bots we don’t want and more semi-afk players not creating content.