Another Hulkageddon

First off, I'm not opposed to the idea of Hulkageddon in terms of safety. There is no safety in Eve (in theory) for players. Suicide Ganking holds no lure to me, but whatever. No I oppose Hulkageddon on the principle that it's an unrealistic, no-lose scenario. You literally can't lose money (or skills) unless you are a blithering idiot.

Where's the balance of risk CCP? There isn't any to be had here. Don't bother saying "security status" because if you cared about that you wouldn't be suicide ganking in the first place.

Money? Nope. With a cheap T1 hull and insurance you won't lose much, if anything at all. Now that's not even including the T2 salvage, which is not insubstantial itself, or the cargo! Conversely the miner has lost a T2 ship that is, in effect, uninsurable on it's own plus the modules. Way to go CCP! No lose scenario!

Skills? Not on your life, unless the ganker is an idiot.

So, how to fix it? You have to make it a risk on payout potential or the economics of the game get skewed. Make the wreck only salvageable by the victim for one hour (whom could also choose to blow up the wreck by hopping in a T1 frigate and shooting it) and remove that revenue stream. Next, let's make the wannabe pirates stand on their own two feet. No free money transfers from an industry (or ratting) alt without the alt taking multiple standings hits. The really funny part is this might dry up the bounty game, as it would affect everyone.

Finally let's have ORE release a defensive ship that can "mimic" the Hulk, Mack, et al. but is really just a bait ship, not a miner. You could also create a "Mimic" module and add a skill for it, similar to cloaking, so that you could mimic any ship you want on the hunt. The module could even let you "fire" mining lasers of the appropriate type while not gathering anything to fool others. I'd find it pretty funny if the people suicide ganking always had to wonder if their target was a real miner...

More ideas later but I like the mimic module for fun. Still, CCP needs to look at the risk/reward ratio for this issue. Suicide ganking a T2 should not = auto profit.





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