Commoner
Caldari
Empire Harassment
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Posted - 2009.05.19 20:48:00 -
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Okay a little reasoning.
Minerals we get from
- Missions
- Drone Alloys
- Mining
And minerals are found in
Categorizing risk we get
- Lowest risk = highsec
- Medium/high risk = nullsec (-lowsec) (Some parts of 0.0 are very risky)
Categorizing by profitability of the specialized typical ores:
- Zerosec highest profitability
- Highsec second highest profitability
- Lowsec lowest profitability
What can we conclude? Well for one, there is a problem with the value of the medium end ores like hemorphid, hedbergite and Jaspet, their price on the market makes mining lowsec ores essentially not worth mining.
The disparity started with the introduction of drone alloys which contain vast abundances of isogen and nocxium and also because manufacturing ships and modules takes very few of those minerals to build.
Also, what people have forgotten is the frequency of the various types of systems, we've got many highsec systems, even more 0.0 systems and incredibly few lowsec systems in comparison.
The current system, for people to mine and fully exhaust the finite resource astroids are, and also counting in the risks, simply makes mining a choice between the very safe highsec or if you are part of a larger alliance able to own and effectively securing systems for mining.
So what can be done? Below here are a few of the suggestions which have been mentioned.
- Moving the mining to exploration?
This is a nice idea that i support. Make it a profession where you can find HUGE astroids of various types, and make the ore you find unique, i.e. one belt might only be one huge veldspar rock.
- Increasing the respawn rates and abundance of existing astroid fields
Don't know about this, the higher supply might lower prices of tritanium, but given that a large portion of tritanium is obtained through missions, i highly doubt this would fix the problem with veld being the only thing worth mining aside from spodumain and higher end roids.
- Lowering the minerals recieved through other means than mining
I support this idea wholeheartedly why come the drone ships found in the drone regions only drop alloys? Why not introduce named drones(Yes i know they exist, but they are so absurdley hard to produce and get and totally not worth it...)? named Omnidirectional tracking links? Faction omni links? Blueprints for special drone rigs? Drone ammo which deals EM damage (AI Antimatter) etc....
Thats my list, i'm partial pirate, and have used a great deal of time mining in lowsec until the price of nocxium dropped from 300-400 to the current 120 or something.
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