Corp update: the GoblinGanks channel became pretty lively, many people started their gankers, soon they'll get to the point where they can apply to the corp. Come and join, let's hit the morons and slackers who refuse to read up and fight the social thinking that you need "friends" to achieve things.
"It's already replaced", "it earned its price long ago", "idc it was just a ret lol" are common responses to ship losses. However people seem to ignore an important function of a ship: to protect their pod. While you can usually get your pod out in highsec and lowsec, it needs you to be prepared and at the keyboard.
Instead of speculating, let's see some data. I processed all my solo kills from the first to the most recent. I killed 285 ships with pods, 137 ships without pods and 5 lone pods that were just floating there without ships. These were all empty and ignored in this calculation. What is common in these ships? That they were all destroyed by a single Catalyst ganker. Let's see their average costs:
But there are more interesting results here: I split the podded ships into two groups, below and above 100M value. The average value of the "cheap" ships was 47.5M, their pods worth 83.3M. The average value of the "expensive" ships was 275.9M, while their pods worth 252.6M. So the cheap barges (Covetors and Retrievers, I didn't kill Procurers) held twice their cost in pods, making their actual kill value 130M. Not bad for killing an untanked T1 barge with a 10M Catalyst.
What do I want to say besides "gankers, don't ignore T1 barges"? That the idea of using an untanked Retrievers and just replacing them only works if you keep your pod empty. If the miners would do that, gankers would sooner or later stop killing Rets, as their value doesn't really worth the gank. I leave 1-2 months old newbies alone regardless of tank because their pods usually don't worth my time. But putting an expensive clone into a T1 barge is just dumb and it seems that many people are dumb.
"It's already replaced", "it earned its price long ago", "idc it was just a ret lol" are common responses to ship losses. However people seem to ignore an important function of a ship: to protect their pod. While you can usually get your pod out in highsec and lowsec, it needs you to be prepared and at the keyboard.
Instead of speculating, let's see some data. I processed all my solo kills from the first to the most recent. I killed 285 ships with pods, 137 ships without pods and 5 lone pods that were just floating there without ships. These were all empty and ignored in this calculation. What is common in these ships? That they were all destroyed by a single Catalyst ganker. Let's see their average costs:
- Pods: 106.4M
- Podded ships: 78.7
- Not podded ships: 98.1
But there are more interesting results here: I split the podded ships into two groups, below and above 100M value. The average value of the "cheap" ships was 47.5M, their pods worth 83.3M. The average value of the "expensive" ships was 275.9M, while their pods worth 252.6M. So the cheap barges (Covetors and Retrievers, I didn't kill Procurers) held twice their cost in pods, making their actual kill value 130M. Not bad for killing an untanked T1 barge with a 10M Catalyst.
What do I want to say besides "gankers, don't ignore T1 barges"? That the idea of using an untanked Retrievers and just replacing them only works if you keep your pod empty. If the miners would do that, gankers would sooner or later stop killing Rets, as their value doesn't really worth the gank. I leave 1-2 months old newbies alone regardless of tank because their pods usually don't worth my time. But putting an expensive clone into a T1 barge is just dumb and it seems that many people are dumb.
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