Andemnon Kohort
Protagonists Of Doom
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Posted - 2012.05.24 10:42:00 -
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John Caligan wrote:I don't get it: Is your endgame to get rid of bots, or just to stop all hisec mining forever?
If it's the former, killing all hisec miners is the wrong way to go about this. Even you said in the OP that bots are predictable, and all warp out in sequence when locked. Ergo, your methods are barbaric.
If it's the latter, than YOU ARE A F****** IDIOT. Yes, you WILL stop hisec mining. But you then forget that with no hisec miners, volumes of the lower-level ores will drastically decrease, causing HUGE price spikes. Yes, the current stockpiles will last a long time, and YES there will still be SOME income, but it will all be in losec, where everything will have turned into mass resources wars. Picture what would happen if the real world suddenly ran out of fossil fuels and the only way left to power things were national reserves. Extermination of hisec mining would be that ONE HUNDREDFOLD. Ships would be destroied before they could deliver their payloads, drastically increasing the chance that one alliance could horde all the game's minerals and resources and extort everyone else, requiring a complete reboot of the game. Everyone would have to start from ground zero. Rookie ships all around.
So if your endgame is to eliminate all hisec mining for all time....
Than I hope you like the end of the Galaxy.
Because that's what you'll get.
Null sec mining pretty much went on unhindered, as far as im aware, hulkageddon only took place in high sec, as all the mining operations i took part in, never left null sec, it's only impact probably drove up mineral values, and the profit margins, having a hulk in null sec is very profitable, even using tech I crystals on the high end ores pays off big time, 100 -400m isk a week is not unrealistic, depending on how many hours a week you can devote to this, and at 2 hrs a day you can mine a huge amount of mineral wealth.. of course only large scale aliances can risk using bots in null sec, i've never used a bot in any case, nor do i shed even a slight tear over those botters who 'lost' their fleets to hulkageddon, in that respect at least, i applaud hulkageddon for ridding Eve of botters, though i do not condone their actions against actual player miners.
the biggest threat to mining at the moment though, isnt actually hulkageddon, but the game itself.. kind of wondering how many miners will unsub, even the null sec ones, and that 'will' have an effect on market prices, more effect than hulkageddon event could achieve in a years worth of activity more than likely. 
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