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At one time mining mercoxit in null was one of the highest isk/hour activities. I have never heard of mercoxit being mined in wormhole grav sites but i guess it is possible. The primary source for morphite is currently drone poo. After the drone POO nerf the primary source will be upgraded sov 0.0 space

Most 0.0 alliances are PVP focused using ratting and combat sites to generate the income they need to buy everything they want. However once the drone POO is nerfed there will be a major shortage of morphite and other null sec minerals need to produce what the PVPers want to buy. Null sec industry will become mandatory for any null sec alliance that wants to field T2 equipment

Since most 0.0 alliances do not actively support/require a mining division it is hard to find a system with the appropriate upgrades. When this changes 0.0 mining will again be a high income activity. required alliance mining ops and manufacturing will again become common place. Null sec warfare will get more complicated and fun as it will no longer be just about who has the biggest guns but who has enough industry to support and replace their big guns. small alliances will be able to weaken larger alliances by attacking there industry and supply lines

A new age is upon us in EVE. It will bring many changes, most for the better. Anti indy alliances will adapt or fall. Many small alliances currently dwelling in NPC null will look to move back to 0.0 space where they can establish there own sovereignty and support there alliance thru industry rather than rely on the ratting that was nerfed during the sov changes. Smaller corps will then be able to move into NPC controlled 0.0 and get a foot hold in null. I see a lot of great things happening in EVE this summer that will only make this game better for everyone. Just maybe it will be enough to reduce some of the less desirable activities that have become so common place such as the blob tatics in null

These changes will increase the demand for null bears. There are many high sec industrialists (carebears) that would like to move into null, but are discouraged by the animosity most PVPers feel towards carebears prevents this from happening. These changes may just force the null sec PVPer to realize just how important these other players are to keep there game going. If we can over come that stigma EVE will become a much funner place for everyone. Even the gankers. An increase in null bears will mean an increase in gank targets traveling through low sec. And an increase in small scale combat everywhere. Large fleet battles will still continue but an empires survivability will be much more dependent on keeping there industrial divisions safe.

Profit margin? Suicide ganking? I suicide for fun, not for profit, more people should too.

You mean like this kind of thing?



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So 10% of null sec has been providing 40% of highends but that's going to end? Panic time! That means that those other 90% that have been supplying 60% of the high ends will now have to do their fair share. I guess all those people who have been "not mining" will have to increase their "not mining" by 50%. It's the end of the world as we know it. We will all have to go back to flying noob ships because that will be all we can afford.

Because prices have already double for some highends and people are predicting insane levels like 2000% increases.

So no chance that people are buying up freighters now on the supposition that after the ship balance pass, freighters will only need faction industrial IV thus dramatically increasing the potential customer base? (Barring CCP changing their mind about BS IV and Industrial IV being prereqs for cap ships.)

It's a possibility, I'd not considered that coming up on the horizon *rubs hands*.

Still, it would be a *massive* gamble. When and if that happens is up in the air, it's certainly not looking to be a quick thing, so people would be holding huge quantities for some time and banking on minerals not tanking in the interim. And more specifically, they're banking on trit and mex not tanking in the interim.

Of the 8.3b of minerals I have tied up in freighter production at any given time, 4.1b of that is trit and 2.1b is mex. Whilst people are quite bullish about high end minerals with drone changes etc I'm not so sure the same strength of confidence is there for trit and mex.

Incidentally, I've been recording build prices every 12 days since early August and since 21/Oct (when an ME3 Fen had a 681m build price) the build costs have risen each and every 12 days since.