1) Must be sad b*tards. The one who jumped me simply switched cans on me and then sat round. They may eventually have taken the ore -- by that time I had lost interest.
2) Presumably therefore are looking for PvP in hi-sec. In which case, it would be illogical to draw any conclusion than that they are fully ready for anything that's brought to them. If you show up in -- say -- a cruiser (because the can-switcher was in a destroyer), "they" will simply bring in a BS, and so on. The ore is simply a pretext for wanting to gank you, only they want you to Bring the Gank, so that CONCORDE won't intervene.
3) Can be avoided by not using a can. So, the theft is simply by way of an unofficial tax on hi-sec mining. Which given that someone was offering well above the market level for ore in my system, is a fair rebalancing of ISK.
4) Doesn't therefore appear actually to raise any real profit. To steal my can-load took (to my best estimate), the initial destroyer, which then stayed in-system for at least 45 minutes, and (presumably) a hauler to collect the can (unless they simply let it decay and abandoned the ore). I don't see how this makes any ISK of itself -- the time they were there, I could have mined just as much myself.
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Can flipping is simply a way looking for ganks in high sec. It is no more dishonourable than a a gate camp in low sec or 0.0 that catches an unwary traveller.
ReplyDeleteI like to think of it like hunting, and if you think it is unfair then imagine how the deer feel against hunters with guns. :)
They don't want your ore, they want to gank newbies who don't know better. Just ignore and/or move along. Just one of those EvE "thangs."
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