Science & Industry

Depends on the specific situation.

In most of null, production slots aren't much of an issue. If for some reason the station slots are constantly occupied, you can always put up a production POS for a fairly modest investment.

Mineral supply is the biggest limit on viable nullsec production. Odds are, you will have to import huge amounts of Tritanium and other low-end minerals, plus any high-ends that are not supplied by your local ores. That may or may not be viable, depending on how far your production system is from your low-sec staging system. The Drone Regions used to be an exception, but CCP Greyscale shafted our industrial sector by removing drone alloys without adding a useful replacement supply of low-end minerals. Not that in the long run it wasn't a bad thing, but would've been nice if CCP also balanced mineral supply.

…and at a drastically increased logistical inconvenience since all you've done is inject another location from which you need to constantly shuttle materials and products back and forth, since it has (very) limited space for both and since it offers no easy way of distributing said goods.

We have all that and production in 0.0 is still worthless. High sec manufacturing beats it every way possible. So sure- you can do production in 0.0 if you don't mind being inefficient, not cost-effective, non-competitive, non-expedient and generally a whole lot of sourcing and logistics hassle for something you could make better money doing 1 jump from Jita.

to make 0.0 realy work there must be a sec based general bonus to ships. something like:

high sec: normal bonus
lowsec: + 10% bonus to mining yield of all miningships
0.0: + 20 % bonus to mining yield of all miningships

same for production, invention facilities ect. this way you always encourage 0.0 because its always relative more profitable. Cheaper 0.0 means more initiative for explosions as its cheaper and thus improving the 0.0 fun. You know lawless space... duh what your going for to lawless space,... pew pew right?

Create cheap industry and miners will follow (more profitable and also more danger). Have cheap industry and activity go's up. Activity go's up more fun... more fun is more populair eve...... easy as peanuts

In that respect it wouldn't make much difference. I've never understood the abject paranoia of NBSI Outpost doctrine but even in space where NRDS is the doctrine, manufacturing is for the corp that runs the Outpost. There just aren't enough slots to be handing them out to neutrals.

I too don't see any possible problems with letting hostiles dock in stations I own.

People do not willingly mine Veldspar and other low-end ores in null, except while rolling hidden belts. The amount of Veldspar and other low-end ores in such belts is very small relative to aggregate local demand. If Veldspar content in such belts were to be increased, it would make those belts unprofitable to mine at current Tritanium prices relative to other activities, so that's not really a solution. A miner going for Veldspar is better off staying in high-sec, where he's not subject to roaming gangs, awoxers, cloaky campers, and the like.

There is a nice table from last year showing the flow of compressed low-end minerals (in the form of railguns and other such modules) from highsec to null. That flow wouldn't exist if nullsec mineral sources were properly balanced. I have some ideas for doing this, but the F&I section is swamped with ship rebalancing threads, so waiting until December to post them.

Either way, look at your local mineral market, and see if it's sufficient to support meaningful industrial activity. If the slots are there, and the minerals are there, then go for it. Otherwise, best off staying in high-sec.

Adding multipliers out of nowhere maybe can fix certain issues, but it won't be elegant solution anyways. If there weren't arbitarty numbers, but statistical outcome of present factors, that would be just great.
As it was stated, CCP had ideas on what they want to see in null more than a year ago, but no avail so far.

What "fix" does null need?

You want safe industry, do it in high-sec.
Low and null have their dangerous, and will always have. If you want to build in low and null, you need to have the means to protect your industry.

If you have the means for protection, null or low sec industries are just fine, and can be extremely profitable.
If you don't, you can certainly try, but expect to be blown up and lose everything at some point.

Surprise, the goons have tons of stuff.

I think the only real production is supercpitals, despite all that.