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The Prospect and Low-Sec Mining
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Balshem Rozenzweig
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#81 - 2014-10-10 06:22:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Balshem Rozenzweig
Mycool Jahksn wrote:
Balshem Rozenzweig wrote:


And all the stuff aside - I think low sec mining is dead, and I'd be afraid to change it. You do need to provide high sec players with some decent activities. And only after some time try to drag them to low/null so they can really discover what the game is about :P
Make it profitable and you will have a month tops of people dying to camps/recons/happy cyno and then forums splattered with "don't mine in lows sec if you're not in a corp controlling the system".



I find this untrue. Why? Because null sec is exactly as dangerous as low sec is, in many cases even more dangerous due to warp bubbles, alliances patrolling their borders and whatnot.

I don't see the boards getting filled up with tears from noobs getting stomped in their search for ABCM in nullsec? Now, if the boards arent getting filled up now, why should they if we boost low sec?



I live in Amarr/Minmatar zone and it is crowded with hostiles. You never have a situation when you're alone/only friendlies in the system.

If mining was a popular thing people would go for miners using tacklers and then bobing them to death. This is how we do it with cruisers, so I kinda think it would work for a barge.

If you've managed to ninja mine in null, with hostiles in local, then I salute you, but you're not the standard target of the would be mining buff.

"NUTS!!!" - general McAuliffe
Nevil Oscillator
#82 - 2014-10-10 07:18:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Nevil Oscillator
Charax Bouclier wrote:


I am not sure how higher isk/hour earned from mining would result in a comparable increase in a non-player manufactured item like PLEX. ISK from mining doesn't introduce new ISK into the game unlike some other ISK-earning activities. It's really a transfer of wealth from the consumer of goods to the miner.


It might in terms of the GNP of Eve increasing thus players are no longer prepared to sell PLEX as cheaply, I'm not sure if that matters or not. How does increasing the production from miners increase the amount of minerals that players consume ?



GNP would that be GEP, or GIP or GGP - Gross Galactic Product - Gross Interstellar Product
GAEP - Gross Anual Eve Product. Not sure if there is already an acronym for this, does anyone here know ?
or for that matter if this figure is released ?