Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The problem there is that you can get special ores without ever leaving highsec. It's really one of the worst decisions they've ever made, although it was very quiet in how it wrecked the game.

The lowsec ores are in crazy low quantities in highsec, Lowsec mining if you aren't interrupted is already vastly more lucrative, and due to the nature of certain groups highsec mining is not risk free nor can it be afk'ed simply because the asteroids are too small.

That said, I wouldn't mind a switch away from fixed belts to more the null style anoms, with all areas of space including null becoming non instant respawn but respawning over time, to take us away from the DT grind and to introduce competition for resources.
I also wouldn't mind seeing NPC miners taxed 11% of their mineral yield to promote player corps a little more and allow that competition to actually take place with wardecs in highsec. And alongside that for Player corps to be able to set a mineral tax on refining as well obviously for corp project use.

But I don't believe any changes need making to the areas of space where you can get each ore as low does have it's own special ores.

Mining anoms are not exclusive to null, nor are they the best places to mine. You don't find, or at least didn't back when I mined, the +5% and +10% rocks in anoms. Also, having a mining anom in system makes for a great diversion when belt ratting. The interceptors seemed to always warp to the anom first.

As to OP, the reason you can't find miners in lowsec is because they watched this video and applied the lessons taught within.

Quite the contrast: All ore anoms should be removed and the special ore occurrences should be included into the regular belts. Moreover, the Ihub ore anoms in Null sec should also be removed and instead, the Ihub should increase spawn rate, number, yield and quality of rocks and rock types in the regular belts. Ore anoms are a pain that should be removed.

@Nevyn Auscent
That wardec plan is utterly futile. A properly set up 1-man corp can't be touched by any war dec, neither now nor under your suggestion. As I do it whenever someone tries to poke me, I simply transfer over my corp to one of my null sec alts (a station sitting alt also works fine) and leave with my main characters. The same goes under your suggestion. The corp would simply be transfered and the main miners keep doing their business as usual, either stocking up the ore until they can rejoin after the war dec or let the holder alt do the refining in station.

I am in the same boat for removing all Ore Anomalies (even Ice) and expanding on the static belts.

Grids are now 8k km, and thus there is much more space to have all these wonderful things in them.

That sounds cool and reminds me of the ice fields in nullsec where you could warp to another block because it was 200km away.

Sorry here Kaarous but your extreme hatred for anything and everything high sec is clouding your ability to determine fact from fiction, as usual.
Omber, Plag, Kernite etc are not "rare" ores and according to the real old timers I know (pre 2006 ) those ores have ALWAYS been available in highs sec so that bad decision you are speaking about was probably made before you and I started playing this game.

When we get into what is truly a "rare" ore in this game there is very little of it available to mine in high sec, certainly not enough to have a significant affect on the game as a whole and there is significantly less of it now than there was in the past. So blame the greedy I want to get rich players in low and nul for the abundance of "rare" ores and minerals available for sale in the high sec markets because they are the ones that haul it there and put it on the market.

To the OP.
Risk versus rewards are the reason that low sec ore belts are largely untouched. A lot of what you can get there can be mined in high sec and for the rest it is actually safer to day trip into nul to mine than it is to mine in low sec.
Not sure that removing the belts is a good idea since it would reduce the locations and chances for player interactions.
Changing the balance of the ores to make it more profitable to mine would only have a short term affect, once the increased supply hit the markets the prices would drop and remove most of the profit incentive to mine in low.

And I am definitely against making the low sec belts a safe place to mine, I do not want to listen to the hate and tears of anguish that would emanate from the ganking community. God they cry enough as it is imagine if most of their targets could go mine safely in the belts in low, not sure the forums could survive the river of tears. And in a more serious way making the belts in low safe, or safer to mine in could devastate the ore and mineral markets of the game and that alone would be more than enough reason no to change them.

Because nobody ever using a mining ship as bait to gank a pirate...

A simpler solution is to reduce the mining belts and quantities of available ore in High-Sec, perhaps another solution is to reduce the amount of high-sec pockets. An in-game explanation would be due to the current issues funding to monitor these parts of space is being redirected to defense fleets.