Maybe you made yourself an attractive target multiboxing that many ships what I assume aren’t cheap ships either?
Have the ship prices gone up?
I don’t pay that much attention to the short term ship prices, but thought they went down?
I was recently surprised how cheap my Rorqual had become, how I can buy JFs now for much less than I paid for, how cheap T1 battleships are and even the black ops battleships which I thought were going for 1b can be bought for 700m or so these days.
Prices seem fine to me and if anything, low!
More fine than the existence of mass multiboxed mining fleets.
I run 1 orca(not blinged), 2 hulks(not blinged) and 1 covetor(training for hulk) Not sure what makes me a juicer target than the guy with 1 orca and 30 machinaws huffing up ice belts
Ya, a few, but gankers are rampant in this game, because they face no real consiquences, Might end up switching to skiffs, and just doing LS and WH expeditions with a porposie
Moreover, the changes in ship prices were primarily driven by an explicit change in build mats that reduced the percentage of their build cost that comes from mined minerals, with gas, PI and exploration mats taking up the remainder.
Not only is your attribution incorrect, but so is your premise.
Miners, and other groups not paying attention to their surroundings are rampant. Going to systems that are already populated and are pretty nice hot spots are always going to attract the folks youre complaining about. I honestly think youd be surprised that these groups arent as rampant as you may think…youre exaggerating is all youre doing.
It sounds to me that you need to go elsewhere to do your mining. Dont be the average miner and set your fleet in areas that gankers are patrolling. Its really that easy. There are several other old tricks of the trade to keep a step ahead of them as well…but i wont list them because its getting tiring to have to type the same thing over and over to people.
Theres a reason why some of us miners have not had the same trouble as you. I know for a fact that you know those reasons…but you choose to not properly use them. Pretty much any system is “rampant” with gankers if youre not paying attention to whats happening around you.
Like I’ve said many times in other threads, I used to mine in Azerakish, and 90% of the time I was the only person there. Massive asteroid belts. Gankers once in a blue moon. Same with the 0.5 system Aurcel…though there’s often 3 or 4 people there but most of the time you have the HUGE asteroids to yourself. There are loads of such places in EVE.
Technically they’re hurting my income as competing miner.
But I can live with that, competition is a part of EVE after all.
More importantly some miners are hurting the game by complaining about easily avoidable things, such as the existence of PvP in this game. The continued cries of some for a safer EVE would hurt the game a lot if they were listened to.
One does not change things just for the sake of it. For example the rules of the card game ‘contract bridge’ have remained the same for over 100 years. The rules of Poker have existed for over 200 years. The rules of the Monopoly game that we play today have existed for 90 years. The rules for Chess were finalised 102 years ago. All those games have existed waaay longer than EVE. So WHY would one change them ? Just for the sake of it ?
The only ‘stagnation’ I see is you endlessly beating the same dead horse.
