Science & Industry

Doubtful. Fuel blocks are still a relatively new 're-vamp'.

Scanned belts - bit harder to bot. Harder to gank - false. Macks are easy to scan down. Effect? We can just speculate, untill Oddisey comes out. Nope, noone will mine ice in lowsex. Maybe there will be more ice miners in null. And this will hit WH boyz the most.
But question was about someone hearing this rumour lately.

moving static ice to scanable ice changes nothing, now removal of hsec ice to low or null could grind any sub 50 man corp to a halt.

so no, it wont happen.


i can see yield ratios being rebalanced in favor of low, currently the yield of low/null ice is just slightly better than hsec in terms of isotopes. when it comes to LO and hwater null ice is vastly superior. so im guessing we could be getting racial ice spread evenly among all of nullsec space? maybe mixed ice belts with double yield, as opposed to the crappy 15% yield boost we have now.

the main problem with ice is that regardless of how morons feels about its mining, it is consumed in ridiculous quantity's by the eve economy, so any change on it will not be drastic. even if the final goal is to move it out of hsec it will happen over years, starting with yield changes. it will not happen after a DT.

It's possible the devs might think that if they remove ice from highsec, and buff the LS/NS ice yields enough things will balance out. Of course the devs don't have a good track record of this sort of balance....

indeed, especially when you look at the volume mined in null/low in comparison to high. the difference is huge.

Well I think the effect would not be that dramatic. Ofc no one in their right mind would mine in low sec.. or dunno perhaps someone would with POS in system and Roqual boosting from there but majority would probably do it in null where its safer. What would happen, however, is that the ice products would creep up probably to around 1k ... up to 2k per unit. As in null sec you would have to compete against dark glitter and ABC ores. Ice would be mined, but the price of components will go up to approx the same level isk/h wise as other stuff you can mine in null.

I will have to point out that Skiff with ORCA boosts can get approx 1 minute ice mining cykle. A bit even under that with Roqual boosts. Would not mean that mining ice in low would be sensible tho as all it takes is one neutral alt in system to make it not worth the risk.

That out of the way I highly doubt that CCP would go and remove ice from hi sec. They would lose all these guys mining with 10+ accounts - or if not lose then they would downscale their operations to the level thats manageable on ore. Over all of eve population probably few thousand accounts I would speculate.

Ice fields have been removed from Hi Sec before... you can either believe that history might repeat itself or you can look up CCP Soundwaves recent comments on the issue.

Or not.

Never, ever have I heard about that happening. They were removed from 1.0 - .8 systems and that's it.

considering they've vanished from the chaos server, according to some russians... i'd say it's more likely than you seem to think.

to be fair, that original quote does imply all of high sec...