EVE General Discussion

Yes, the price would skyrocket. Yes, this would become another massive income stream for the null sec cartels.
Which is precisely what will likely happen.

Listen/watch what Soundwave said in the Twitch TV podcast about a week ago.

So we have evidence of this?

One issue with making them all grav sites is barges and exhumers do not have a utility high for the probe launcher. Or the discovery scanner, whatever it is. The result is a lengthy process of first scanning with one ship, then going back and getting the miner.

Then again if the ice site is so huge miners are willing to share I could see ice mining chat channels springing up where you ask if there is a nearby site, and fleeting up to get a warp-in. (no gankers will not be that big an issue with that system, as its no easier than warping to an ice miner right now). This would actually foster interaction between miners.

There is always my "erupting comet" idea.

Replace ice belts with comets. They could be fixed, findable on D-scan, or with probes.
Comets are mined just like ice roids. Fly up to it, target and mine.
Comets have gas eruptions. These start out as a visible cloud pattern on the surface. If you see one under your ship you got a minute to fly away.
If you do not fly away the eruption takes place and pushes your ship away from the comet, breaking your mining cycle.
Exotic ices could have eruptions that damage your ship.

The eruptions would come often enough that if you just started mining and went afk you could be fairly sure that in 10 minutes or so you would get hit by an eruption. Note that blindly orbiting the comet does not help as you could just as easily fly into an eruption as fly away from one.

Now for a bot to mine this it will need to be able to read the screen had recognize the pre-eruption pattern. Quite possible, but not by your basic bot. CCP could mess the bots up more by having dozens of different cloud patterns, some signifying an eruption, others not, and changing it day to day. A player could figure it out by watching the comet for a few minutes. The bot.. might have issues.

Isboxer users would also have an issue. Usually they spread their ships all over a belt. But with a comet that would mean each is over a different part and subject to different eruptions. A common command of, say, "fly down" would not work for all ships. They could cluster the barges all close to each other so they can all be moved out of the way of the same eruption, but that makes them smartbomb fodder.

FIXED & this too redistributes moon goo in NULL

Itll be up to the mice to commission more.

The mice all ate of the blue donut, but the blue donut was colored with FD&C blue dye no. 1(also known as "brilliant blue"). "In 2003, when Brilliant Blue was used as a dye in feeding tubes, the FDA issued a public health advisory because of side effects like blue-tinged skin, urine, and feces, as well as hypotension and death. "

tl;dr, the mice are all dead, and without new moons/planets, we're next.

1. Source:
Food and Chemical Toxicology 52 (2013) 19–27
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2012.10.027,
‘Absorption of triphenylmethane dyes Brilliant Blue and
Patent Blue through intact skin, shaven skin and lingual
mucosa from daily life products’

Long live the fighters!

Would't this effectively kill any single possibility of null getting any for of industry by driving way more up the actual price of running production lines? Unless low/null for massive mining army, I don't see the production of ice ever reaching the level of high sec to even just keep the prices as is...

What about jump fuel?

better late to the party, than to miss it all together i guess...