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You must have done extremely little in eve then because that is surely not the most efficient way to make isk.

Yeah, I'm sort of like what...

I mined but then used the isk to do other things to get what I wanted. But then again maybe you only fly blingy hulks in highsec (safe!!) so I guess you don't need that much.

This thread is its own satire. No need to mock it any further.

SInce the last time industry stepped into some major Fozzie in Odyssey, ice mining has gone and got replaced with new mechanics called "ice camping". This means you gotta camp your ice for 4 hours to get your 20-30 icicles, then camp somewhere else. Consequently, it means nobody in hisec is getting any substantial amounts of ice anymore, and profitability of it has gone down the drain. Like I said when this change got implemented, well, Fozzie happens.
Mining were also covered with Fozzie that patch, so it took 5 buffs to remove most of the Fozzie stains from it, some still remain, odds are the stench they gave is permanent. That said, regular mining recovered about 75% of potential it had before being Fozzified, even though things like hisec mining for hisec manufacturing will never recover, and the safety of mining has gone from "need a piece of brain and preparation to screw the miner" to "warp and press F1, you can do it even with goon IQ (or lack thereof)".
Right now, L4s, even despite being nerfed belt-high into the ground, give better ISK/hour results than mining, but, unlike proper mining OP, they are incredibly boring, almost reaching the bottom-of-the-barrel boredom of ship pvp.

I totally understand what you mean there, but unfortunately, if ice mining was all you fancied, CCP Fozzie has closed eve for you with Odyssey expansion. I suggest trying exploration, maybe it'll occupy you before something changes. PI - no, not profitable at all, since now every POCO on hisec is player-owned, you're just making the owners rich, getting nothing for yourself. Mining with Makinaws is too unsafe with the series of buffs to the easies thing in eve - suicide wanking. Blueprints research is too niche, datacore farming is quite a bother and requires some not very useful skills, but you may try those, since it doesn't require you to be online much. A popular myth of eve that station trading is profitable is false, but it may also occupy you for a few timespans per day. Try these, and wait for changes, and if waiting is becoming too bothersome, take a break, don't push yourself to like something you don't like.

WH mining got Fozzified along with hisec mining and a good portion of a nullsec mining outside of blue donuts.

I am mining ice right now. Full belt, untouched, no one in system but me, no one besides blues within 4 jumps.

Leave highsec.

That's fascinating. What system are you in?

All I read was about the OP and his accounts. Was he the ice mining corporation that destructed?
For a second it seemed this affected a bunch of players. Unless multiple accounts...where's my waders?

the place I mine in occasionally have anywhere from 15 to 20 in ice belts with full mining boosts. it takes over 2 hours to deplete the belt. so yeah, you are full of it.

Don't even have to leave highsec, I see untouched Ice Belts in high sec even. Though obviously not with only blues (since highsec is the hole in the blue doughnut). But that 'only blues' will change anyway when Sov gets sorted properly.
However that's beside the point, you can get untouched Ice in highsec. And 2500 Units takes a while.