Science & Industry

I resubbed after taking a five month break and noticed that minerals have crashed? What is going on? What I've read is that CCP nerfed ice mining, so AFK miners are now mining minerals. And null sec got buffed with extra minerals. Is this right?

Freefall is an exaggeration imo. Yes they've dropped, both due to the fact that it's summer and the fact that they got rebalanced:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/resource-companion-blog#ORE

I think it's a step in the right though, paying 150 mil for a battleship is outrageous.

Yes CCP added more tritanium & pyerite to the rocks in nullsec which has turned out to be a waste of time for nullsec industry. Without adding more mexallon to the rocks, which CCP will not do as that would make null self-sufficient & independent, the old method of shipping in minerals as railguns is far more efficient. CCP shot themselves in the foot again and stabbed miners in the back.
Ideally CCP would reverse this change to nullsec rocks as it is useless and has disrupted the market. But I don't expect that will happen.

This mineral called mexallon would like to have a word with you. I find myself able to farm all the rest of the minerals for capitals/hulls cept the mex, i regularlly ship down 10-30million mex

Adding to this, a lot of dreads and carriers were built and rigged with the Large T2 rigs before the Capital rigs were introduced. Not sure how much effect this has had, but I guess all the factors mentioned so far add up to create the big changes you have noticed.

You seriously don't think that CCP doesn't cater to every whim that the null sec cartels have?
I read the comments about how mex is still out of whack and how all the null sec babies are whining because they don't have independence from high sec yet.

I am sure that terrible yoke that null sec wears will be removed with the December iteration.
At that same time, CCP is going to give another gift that is far far more lavish than "balancing" mex.

All the nullbears who got kicked out of their homes recently are dumping their stocks for quick cash.

I mine myself, so my minerals are free anyway! Can't get any cheaper than that!!!

I thought this has basically been removed with the larger Ore Bays on Barges?

Yeah that's true too, hadn't considered that factor. There's also the recent battlecruiser balancing which caused huge stockpiling - in short, there are literally enormous stockpiles of many of the ships that use the largest amounts of minerals to build.

If there's say 250 trillion ISK worth of additional battleship builds that happened pre-Odyssey (which is only about a million hulls, it could even be more), and 150 trillion ISK of capitals, and 100 trillion ISK of battlecruisers left in stockpiles from the previous balance pass, that would explain a major depression in demand now.