Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey everyone. As we mentioned at Fanfest this year we're making some significant changes to mining in our April release, mainly focused on Null Security space.

These changes are intended to make Nullsec more self sufficient then it is currently. We continue to believe that no area of space should be completely independent of any other, but there is a lot of room to make nullsec more self sufficient and improve the opportunities for zero-sec miners and industrialists.

These changes consist of three parts:

• Increasing Zydrine and Megacyte consumption in manufacturing
• Rebalancing the mineral content of the Null and Lowsec focused ores
• Rebalancing the ore content of the mining anomalies generated by the Ore Prospecting Array

Increasing Zydrine and Megacyte consumption in manufacturing.
This is a fairly simple change, but it will have some significant effects. As we said on the o7 show, we are doubling the Zydrine and Megacyte consumption of almost all blueprints in the game. This will bring the universe-wide consumption of Zydrine and Megacyte closer to some of the original designs for overall mineral consumption, and will provide a very significant boost to Nullsec (including wormhole) and to a lesser extent Lowsec mining.

Rebalancing the mineral content of the Null and Lowsec focused ores.
This is the big set of changes that will enable a more healthy Nullsec mining enviroment. Each of the "Nullsec Ores" will be rebalanced to focus on one main mineral (except for Spodumain which will be more widely distributed between four mineral types). This allows us to adjust the supply of each mineral in Nullsec to bring overall balance closer to the actual mineral consumption from the average industry job. It also makes it much easier for players to decide what ore to mine if they find themselves in need of a specific mineral. We are also making somewhat smaller sets of changes to the "Lowsec Ores" to clean up their mineral spread and increase their value.
The following values are for a theoretical 100% refine of a batch of each ore type. The upgraded versions of each ore will continue to contain +5% and +10% minerals as they did before. Volumes of each ore are not changing in this pass.

Arkonor:

• Tritanium: 22000
• Mexallon: 2500
• Megacyte: 320

Bistot:

• Pyerite: 12000
• Zydrine: 450
• Megacyte: 100

Crokite:

• Tritanium: 21000
• Nocxium: 760
• Zydrine: 135

Dark Ochre:

• Tritanium: 10000
• Isogen: 1600
• Nocxium: 120

Gneiss:

• Pyerite: 2200
• Mexallon: 2400
• Isogen: 300

Spodumain:

• Tritanium: 56000
• Pyerite: 12050
• Mexallon: 2100
• Isogen: 450

Mercoxit:

• Morphite: 300

Hedbergite:

• Pyerite: 1000
• Isogen: 200
• Nocxium: 100
• Zydrine: 19

Hemorphite:

• Tritanium: 2200
• Isogen: 100
• Nocxium: 120
• Zydrine: 15

Jaspet:

• Mexallon: 350
• Nocxium: 75
• Zydrine: 8

Rebalancing the ore content of the mining anomalies generated by the Ore Prospecting Array
With these changes, the total mineral supply gained by mining out an entire Ore Prospecting Array anomaly (other than the small belts) will more closely match the average mineral consumption across the EVE universe, allowing alliances to more easily source the bulk of their raw minerals locally for industrial activities. The relative compositions of each anomaly are slightly different, allowing each corporation or alliance to decide which best matches their personal industrial activities.
:Edit: We hear the feedback that the differences between the mineral ratios in the anoms is not quite large enough to provide good choice. We've done a small update pass on the anom numbers to increase variance so groups can pick between them to get :Edit:

Small:

• Arkonor: 9600
• Bistot: 12800
• Crokite: 30000
• Dark Ochre: 16000
• Gneiss: 170000
• Spodumain: 300000

Medium:

• Arkonor: 28000
• Bistot: 38700
• Crokite: 84700
• Dark Ochre: 31000
• Gneiss: 340000
• Spodumain: 270000
• Mercoxit: 2600

Large:

• Arkonor: 29900
• Bistot: 57000
• Crokite: 124000
• Dark Ochre: 60000
• Gneiss: 313500
• Spodumain: 368100
• Mercoxit: 3500

Enormous:

• Arkonor: 58000
• Bistot: 86000
• Crokite: 169000
• Dark Ochre: 50000
• Gneiss: 540000
• Spodumain: 542000
• Mercoxit: 5200

Colossal:

• Arkonor: 60800
• Bistot: 114300
• Crokite: 225200
• Dark Ochre: 115000
• Gneiss: 630000
• Spodumain: 736200
• Mercoxit: 7000

The ore compositions of other mining anomalies found within Nullsec, Lowsec and Wormhole space will not change, but the mineral changes will cause the value of mining those anomalies to rise significantly as well.

We're very interested to hear from miners, nullsec industrialists and prospective nullsec industrialists. Let us know how you view these changes and how you would like to see them changed to better meet your needs. Thanks!

Gneiss!

if people want to compare ore mineral numbers to current: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ore/

Will the amount of mining required to get the small/medium/large etc ore anoms be changing, or the associated degradation?

so what happens to the ore we have stocked up and have yet refined?

will they change to the new amounts after patch day?

I hope this reduces the bottleneck for Mexallon out in Null...

also, anyone want to buy some overpriced Mexallon today!? :)

Noooo, this is such a good opportunity for ore tiericide :(

We don't need 96 different ore markets for 8 types of minerals!

There goes my ore transportation business... Good.

Are the high sec ores going to retain their current mix?


I disagree with removing the varieties of ore (suggested above). If I remember correctly the higher value rocks are only in asteroid belts and their improved compression is a boon to transporters.

New Ore Charts (estimated)


Mineral Output per Unit of Ore


Mineral Output per m3 of Ore


Do these look correct?

Edit: Fixed a few bad numbers.

I must say, after mathing out the new ore prospecting site compositions, I give my most sincere approval. The new comps should do a lot to help normalize mining.