Anderson_Geten: Anderson_Geten: Maybe this means there is less procurer and skiff to gank ?

Possibly.

Anderson_Geten: Anderson_Geten: You make a mistake here. I do not affirm what is, I only state that your opinion is biased (because you are part of one group of gankers).

I rarely gank miners. I dabbled in it a bit…like less than 10 ganks at most.

Now freighters…I only gank during Burn events.

Anderson_Geten: Anderson_Geten: Plus, you are taking a correlation for a causation.

Yeah, because I have a theory: you don’t have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the guy next to you.

Or in this case: you don’t have to tank any and all gank attempts, you just have to be less gankable than the guy next to you.

When we look for ganks for skiffs and procurers they are far less common. Yes, we don’t know how often they are used, so it could be partly due to that. But again, why are people not going for the procurer or the skiff? Why are there, proportionately, more retrievers, macks and hulks that can be ganked? Because people do not want to tank their ship and give up the yield. Fine. But then you have to accept the higher risk that your decision entails. Crying on the forums is just that…crying. Crying over a decision to take on risk and then blubbering about how it bit you on the butt.

Anderson_Geten: Anderson_Geten: As I said already, if everybody was tanked in a proc full ehp, then gankers would still gank them.

And if there were magic unicorns…

Anderson_Geten: Anderson_Geten: max yield on kernite with covetor = 237*(166439+27000) = 45.8M/h max yield on proc = 27M1. remove 2 laser upgrades =>22.8M/h A yield-covetor makes double the yield of a tank-procurer That means every 2H of mining without a gank you gain an additional covetor when mining in a covetor.

Sure. Maybe you should go back and re-read my initial comment because you are really screwing up here.

Seriously you are arguing against a position I have not taken. I already noted that if you want to focus on yeild then go for it, but just factor in that you will likely be ganked more frequently. Figure out which strategy works for you and go for it. I noted this days ago.

Holy crap…

Edit:

Here is what I wrote 12 days ago.

Alternatively you can [fit] for pure yield and just expect to die periodically and factor that into your calculations.

In any event, if you opt for this strategy you are going to eventually get ganked. It is part of the strategy you opted for. Accept it, put on your big boy/girl pants and move on. You took on more risk. Either inadvertently or knowingly…if you did it by mistake. Either change your strategy or HTFU.