EVE General Discussion

From the CSM/CCP dev minutes meeting in iceland.

General Sovereignty Balance
CCP asked the CSM for feedback about the possibility of replacing Drone alloy drops with bounties. The CSM approved, noting that the drops from drone rats have flooded the market for high-end minerals and are largely responsible for the decline in mining as a nullsec profession. The CSM also noted that the ease of production in the drone regions due to alloy drops has had an influence on the rampant proliferation of supercapitals. CCP added that in addition to changing drone rats to having bounties instead of dropping alloys, CCP may need to adjust the truesec of the drone regions, as they have significantly better truesec than any other region. CCP stated that they did not want the sovholding 0.0 economy to be one where an alliance leader gets all of an alliance’s ISK, but rather one where everyone at the member level in an alliance gets more income as a consequence of holding space. The CSM pointedly noted that nullsec income had once been more like this - before CCP nerfed anomalies in March 2011
- With the proposed drone alloy change (mentioned in the nullsec session), mining will become profitable again, and coupled with other industrial changes will bring industrialists to nullsec. This change may also boost wormholes as well.

Can you say buy minerals now?

Lets discuss how this will change eve.

If only everything that showed up in CSM minutes could be considered "pretty much confirmed"...