Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about they just make all minerals available everywhere, and just change the yields between High, Low, Null?

So for instance -

HighSec would have unnamed basics - Veldspar, Scordite, Plagioclase, Omber, Kernite, and Pyroxeres. It would also have Gravimetric sites which spawned at an average of 1 per system per x amount of days (don't want to make it too easy nor too hard) that contained medium and higher end ores; Hedbergite, Gneiss, and small ABC rocks mixed in. This would make Megacyte and Zydrine available to Empire space. Save for Technetium (which is a problem I won't even get into in this post), Empire would become independent from NullSec.

LowSec would have the 5% basics, and medium ends would appear in belts (I would also suggest that medium ends start appearing as early as 0.4 - right now there's no point in mining in a 0.4 system because they only have basics). Higher end ores would appear in Gravimetric sites. (There could also be additional benefits for performing Industrial activities in LowSec, however, I will not address that in this post, either).

NullSec would have the 10% basics, the mediums, and higher end ABCs would appear in belts. Mining in NullSec would be more lucrative and attractive to higher skilled Indy pilots. In addition to NullSec Indy buffs that have been suggested elsewhere, NullSec could begin to operate independently of HiSec, and have it's own markets that don't rely on jumping things in from Jita.

This would increase quality of life for all people involved; NullSec would be happier with a beefier, more efficient Industry, and the distribution of resources would just make more sense.

Nullsec industry does not need to be nerfed. Hichsec income does not need to be buffed.

next.

Tell me again how adding nullsec ores to highsec, even in limited quantities, does not constitute a nerf to nullsec mining?

I'm honestly not seeing it either, care to explain?

Honestly i still have something of an issue with only null getting acces to the ABC, and moonmining, and gas, etc.

Since basically both TII and TI production can be done in nullsec.

Now i'm not here to shout that ABC should all come to highsec, gods that would be horrendous. But having null be more about the TII and high (or at least empire) be more about the TI would be a good thing.

Sprinkling more high value ores into higher sec statusses would accomplish this quite easily. The odd out rock of crock in a 0.2 belt, and some ark in 0.4 grav sites wouldn't be too much fo a nerf to null (whose income is already insane as it stands), nor too big a buff to empire (who relies more on quantaty rather than quality at any rate).

So honestly i wouldn't mind a slightly more even division of rocks.

I'm going to reply to this in the proper EVE-Troll Fashion:

"Please explain to me how removing named ores form HiSec and making them only available in NullSec removes incentive to mine in NullSec."

So ABC ores in belts won't attract miners huh.

TueFact: Belt mining in NullSec is safer than in HiSec. But if you nullbears are still too skiddish to do it even with a 10% buff, then simply add low-ends to all the gravimetric sites in NullSec and problem solved.

It's not hard, really.

Yes because mining ABC's in NullSec, jumping them to HiSec to sell, then buying what you need from the HiSec market to jump back to the NullSec trade station is a sensical and efficient way of promoting inter-regional commerce.

CONCORD? My 700 DPS Catalyst would like a word with you.