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Who's have thought they'd play faction warfare either?

The fact is that these changes are going to cause massive, and unpredictable, changes in game play and in the market, mostly at the expense of players in high sec. One realistic outcome will be a massive spike in the price of T2, due to the rise in the cost of POS fuel. The other will be that High Sec POS will come to be dominated by large alliances in much the way null sec POS are dominated by large alliances, but it will have less to do with military might than it will to do with manpower and financial wherewithal.

Small players who previously squeaked by with a marginal profit will be driven under or subhumed into larger alliances not due to any player actions, but due to the whims of CCP.

Thus, once more, we see the sandbox is a lie.

Making mining sites so they have to be scanned down, and not static, I like that. Making it so that they are found with the on board scanner; hmmmm... while in High, Low, and Null sec this makes little difference as to how quickly a miner can be found. It does however appear to be able too foil the bot miners. In Wild space, this will spell certain doom for miners. It is already difficult to mine in Wild space. With no static belts, and only 'random' spawn of grav sites. The only chance miners have in wildspace is the off chance they catch probes or unknown ships on the D scanner. With targeting being what it is in EVE even having a combat fleet on standby in the grav site with the miners will not stop them from meeting death should someone with less than noble intentions suddenly show their face. It's not like you can sit someone on the gates to the system and know when people come in. Sure you can sit scouts on the known worm holes. But the random incoming holes, the only defense against those is the D scanner. Making mining now more like anomaly sites takes away that slim chance that miners currently have in wildspace.

With the changes to the mining ships and need for support craft to be 'on site' more, mining has taken on a new dynamic. I don't see increasing the mineral count in the low/null sec rocks making it more appealing to mine in dangerous space. Miners will always be the victims of the ' look at my awesomeness, I can gank defenseless miners' crowd. Because of that single fact, most players will not venture in the darkness. Those that do, do so either out of necessity or because they are the adventurous sort. Getting a mining operation from one place to another is a bit of a challenge to begin with. Moving one around in dangerous space is the thing nightmares can be made of, except in areas already controlled by your group and often only done deep in 'home' territory.

All in all this is a move in the right direction. it will add a small immersive component to mining. As well as a feeling of 'ownership' to the pilots that find the mining site. It will solve some problems, but will add a degree of difficulty for another group of players. With the current state of affairs in null sec, and constant blockading of low sec pipe gates, I don't see people rushing to the far parts of space to go mining. Those already in place will take the changes with little more than a shrug and small smile.

Check your math!

Here is a thought! How about we just remove these two types or asteroids from the game all together. They are worthless now, and the fix is a band-aid. As you are absolutely right.

Or, we could have these two roids produce something entirely "new" or at least different. Maybe you gas mine them for drug gases. Its not unreasonable, as many ores are crushed and if not vaporized, liquified to remove impurities to get the valuable product out.

Would a better idea what with the over abundance of resources in null and low sec, to remove all ice from low and null sec and only have it in empire, reason why the 4 major empires hold the space they do?

Could even need to have 8 or 9 standings with the empire to gain access to the ice belts/annomollies

IT becomes a whole hell'ava lot MORE dangerous. As there is no warning, no chance of escape and NO FRIGGIN LOCAL! The roids in WH better spit out billions in pure isk, to make it worth while with these changes. I **** you not!

CCP, you have outdone yourselves.

the mining changes are spot on (now just hurry up and rebalance the mining ships so they are actually balanced and i'll love you long time).

these changes are amazing and if you keep this up i might even stray in to the realm of being your biggest fanboy. i've not been playing for as long as the 10 year vets, but i've never been looking forward to an expansion as much as i'm looking forward to odyssey.

I don't mean to troll you here, but if you have "ship doctrines" that are nuked by the addition of a frigate, they were not very good doctrines to begin with.
It's understandable that people would come up with fittings that are super-specialized for maximizing ISK/hour, but this bean-counting yuppie-istic ISK snatching mentality is what's relegating much of the challenge and immersion of the game into calculator wars and fitting fu. Where it up to me, all sites would be random with spawns being based on what warps in (like in wormholes).

Those supercaps got built by hauling in compressed minerals from hi-sec. The only reason they were built in 0.0 is that's the only place it's allowed to build them.

Oh dear lord, here we go again!

Playing eve for SO long... Hi sec players WIL NOT MOVE to low/0.0 sec... Jeez, u would imagine ccp would get that into their thick skulls after almost 10 years...

Low sec mining is rare to say the least... to much risk involved.. too many pilots needed to fly security, which could be mining or doing fun stuff instead of babysitting barges/exhumers, which still have a chance of getting whacked anyways.

nullsec... well... thats where ccp lives

Then again, if ice is getting rare... it might actually be fun (read profitable) enough to mine.

Good thing also i didn't use up my stockpile of icecubes