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And that's where it stopped making sense...

No. But if you create ships that can pull in more ore than now then supply will rise and make mineral prices drop. And AFKers and botters will STILL make more ISK than active players because they can pull in the volume necessary to make a pretty penny.

Besides... which people are most likely to use these types of ships? Because I'll bet hard ISK it won't be solo or small scale miners. I can see mega alliances using them en mass deep in their territories where no one can reach them.

I thought I mentioned it's a capital ship, and can't be used in highsec. That eliminates like 90% of botters right there. If it's not in highsec and the person using it is AFK, they can be easily attacked.

My god you people are slow.

Why exactly is that a bad thing?

Place a bot into this. In deep nullsec. With scouts around. Ship safes up and cloaks if a red gets close. Just like bots do these days anyway.

Adding high-level ships that will increase yield-per-character for botters is a bad thing.

One thing often missing from Null Sec production chains is the basic ore, unless it's imported from JITA through a complicated nonsensical process of building the base ore into stuff, transporting the stuff to Null, and then recycling the stuff in null sec back into tritanium, etc.

Why do I mention this need for low ends in null sec, particularly for the stupidly expensive supercaps?

Because the capital mining ship could be limited to fast and efficient mining of these scarce low end ores.

Focusing the mining capital ship on low ends in null sec would help to meet an established "need", possibly reduce the need for a kind of stupid workaround, and also save the "high ends" for more conventional miners and ships.

Isn't it obvious? Alliance (like yours) bots don't count as bots. Semi-afk highsec miners count as bots.

Since drone alloy nerf hardly affected minerial prices at all, it's all the more proof there are fewer bots there than in highsec, right?

Affirmative Conclusion From a Negative Premise

Three times in two sentences, wow.

Drones didn't give bounties pre-"nerf" - the only reward generated was by the drone compound drops in their wrecks, which when reprocessed gave the equivalent value of a bounty in minerals. This had vast implications on the economy of EVE, because no matter how much pure currency (ISK) was generated from ratting and injected into the game, the supply of goods being created would still be capped by the amount of minerals available, and that was capped by by the max yield of a bonused Hulk. In other words, even if you had trillions of ISK, you couldn't just buy a titan fleet instantly and steamroll space - people had to sit in hulks and mine for X-thousand of manhours to make it possible, you couldn't just pour your raw isk into a CSAA. The end effect was a semblance of balance between isk generation and commodity generation: too much isk floating around and mudflation would make it more worthwhile to mine instead.

What gunmining did was remove that cap - the system was balanced around the idea that gunmining in a moderately expensive ratting ship would match the same output as a Hulk. This system was broken when people started gunmining in faction ships, marauders and carriers. It became obliterated when the drone compound minerals were reinvested into supercarriers and titans that in turn singlehandedly dwarfed mining fleets in yield, yield to create more gunmining supercaps and titans (not 'bots'). The end losers in this scenario were miners everywhere else, as resource generation in this manner crushed all other forms of mineral creation as well as nullsec, as the drone regions' mineral output introduced a supercaps arms race that otherwise would not be possible simply due to lack of available resoures.