Science & Industry

How many hisec only miners will actually be drawn to nullsec?

Will the changes to nullsec ore actually draw more hisec miners to nullsec, or is it possible that long time hisec miners will simply give up due to the drop in isk/hour.

Some highsec miners will still not be able to bring themselves to risk being popped in nullsec belts and for those players alot of fun will be lost when their wallet's growth slows to a snail's pace.

It would seem that any profit from low and nullsec mining will be offset by the huge zerg forces of pvp and griefers entering the belts which might become target rich environments.

No.



No.

They will continue mining for less money.

only thing you might see is more null sec guys moving their miners out of high sec.


The more likely thing to happen is they just unsub them as not worth the hassle. I know i only ran my high sec miners as passive income(Ice) while i was off doing something else. Now that they cant do that I prob wont run them at all.

I am actually more set on not moving out to null now with the changes to scanning. Before one of the reasons I was considering it was that I could mine hidden belts and be able to get to saftey once the probes were dropped. Now they just have to warp in and all the hidden and static belts are shown and easy to warp to.

1. Not many. Statistically undetectable.

2. Same as 1. answer. Unknown.

3. Hard to say, as its mainly trit and pye getting null boosts. I would say mex, iso and nox. will still be good minerals for the market.

4. I'll let null miners speak to that. But my guess is they are not happy about the grav site scan change. No one mines in lowsec. Let me rephrase that, no one with a brain mines in lowsec.

As others have easily pointed out, mining happened with trit at 2isk per unit. All people are doing (to the extent that the forums represent the majority) is crying about something they think will happen in a month. I've found people in general, don't like change. Same thing here.

No.

The logistics of Null Sec alone tells me no.

Ill still be in high sec.

simply put, 50% of belts are pyerite and trit heavy, so in a nutshell 50% of miners will be pretty much forced to head off to low/null, or mine those 2 mats lol.

also, most belts are stripped of the good stuff in the first 6 hours after servers come back up, so your going to see most low-nul mining corps from certain regions like Europe/Russia japan etc.

P.S. dibs on calling CCP out on this first.

it is because this exact reason that nothing will change.

full blown self sufficient industrialist my behind. from what i heard the amounts of minerals a real industrialist blows through his assembly lines are off the charts. those guys are going to mine that themselves in null ? forget about it.

the new capacities of outposts ?? (unless the upgrade levels are cumulative) the total numbers are still a joke.
there are highsec systems with hundreds of production slots avaiable. without much logistic trouble. courier contratcs are cheap, market available...

i think the idea is great, but the execution lacks commitment.

and unless corporation and alliances embrace and accomodate miners and industrialists as normal members and part of their own, nothing will ever change...

The funny thing about this comment is that I feel like my null sec alliance has laid out their expectations very well. They boil down to simply:

1. When a call to arms goes up attend if you can
2. Do whatever you want when there is no call to arms
3. Don't be an ass to your alliance or their allies

What they're changing at a moments notice I don't know.