Todays darwinism is a double feature, comprised of somewhat similar kills and stories.
As anyone in nullsec or lowsec will tell you, highsec is incredibly safe and needs to be made less safe, but what they don’t tell you is the same system that avenges people ( i say avenge as concord responds after the crime and punishes the criminal with a ship loss) who have committed a criminal act also protects them until they do!
This allows gankers the ability to sit and wait for targets to come through the stargates and land at optimals in front of them.
The first darwinism is this lovely Obelisk class freighter.
This pilot decided to leave hauling his lovingly compressed minerals to the last moments before crius. When he jumped through the stargate in to Niarja though a group scanned the obelisk and wanted to put “Death to all supers” in to action. How were the minerals compressed?
The reason i think this was likely the makings of a super are because of the sheer amount of minerals inside.
Lets take a look at the percentages he would have had towards building a super reprocessing the guns.
This is a pre Crius Nyx bpc with no ME (these numbers are not exact).
1.1 billion tritanium needed and the guns would reprocess into 940 million or roughly 88%
300 million pyerite needed and the guns would reprocess into 277 million or roughly 92%
115 million mex needed and the guns would reprocess into 92 million or roughly 80 %
(other minerals needed but lets just stick with these 3 as they are the highest)
Looking at the numbers it would be a fair guess that the guns were going to be used to build a super carrier of some kind.
So why is this a darwinism article?
Because the owner made several mistakes that lead to his demise and a hugely expensive killmail.
The mistakes that were made :
While no specific number exists that will determine when a freighter will become worth ganking, its a safe bet that carrying 1 billion isk or more is pushing the safety buffer.
Why 1 billion isk?
The number comes from what a medium group would need in terms of ships to kill the target, replace everything lost ( including security status) and still profit.
The drops tend to average between 20-50% of what is inside the ship.
Using Pyfa to find the stats on a maximum skilled character piloting the exact same obelisk and fittings would be 169,000 effective hit points. A small gang of 13 catalysts using meta 4 guns pushing out 450 dps each would have enough power to finish the freighter before concord arrived while only costing around 120-150 million isk.
Lets move on to the other similar killmail.
This Jump Freighter : Rhea loss mail
Now a few things immediately stand out when looking at this killmail.
Firstly he makes the same mistakes as the first freighter
Now as a pilot of Goonswarm Federation alliance, one would think the pilot would have been told
“Don’t fly in highsec with multiple billions of isk in a non cloaking ship and if you have to, don’t do it in a wardec”
But apparently not, or more likely the pilot decided highsec was perfectly safe as he always hears about and decided to do it anyway.
Either way though im sure next time he will take more care with moving all that ratting loot he receives.
One interesting item that was mentioned though is the compressed white glaze. Verified by a source inside the CFC all ice mined is supposed to stay in nullsec to be used for their own pos’s and such. Even going as far as to mention that a program was specifically built that would allow for quick sale of the ice at close to jita value minus jump fuel costs.
If we suddenly find this individual out of Wildly Inappropriate we likely will have a few guesses as to why.
An honorable mention goes to this pilot for losing a near 4 billion isk pod, in highsec (Jita to be exact) and not to smart bombs or instant locking loki’s or Thrashers either, this pod was lost to missiles. Thats right, the most delayed weapon system in eve (not including drones).
Have you seen some large kill mails you think we should post? Feel free to mail me in eve.
– MR Benoit
