Dear CCP:

Scordite, Veldspar and Plagioclase are now more valuable to mine than Bistot. And Crockite is the 11th least valuable Ore.

What ever happened to the "Risk-Reward" scale I have heard referenced in so many Dev Blogs?

A void was created with the nerfing of drone minerals. Planning to fill it with something or does every ore in the game being roughly the same value constitute "balance" ?

If all ores being of equal value, and high sec ores being worth just as much as nullsec ores, is the vision for mining I suggest removing all the various ores and replacing it all with "RockOre". And instead of using different minerals, players can build all ships with 1 material - "RockOre". Real nice and simplestupid.

Ridiculous right? I suspect most Eve players aren't interested in something quite so dumbed down.

Unless you happen to be in a -1.0 truesec system that spawns arkonor naturally, you are just as well off mining in empire where you can AFK (something you canGÇÖt do in null). And no, the industry upgrades with hidden belts donGÇÖt make up for it. e.g. The level 1 upgrade contains mostly Spodumain, which is among the least valuable ores in the game (based on Jita prices at the time of this writing). So whatGÇÖs there to look forward to for the upgrade - cockite and bistot worth less than veldspar and a couple roids with arkonor and mercoxit.

In Sum - Nullsec mining is significantly more risk, cost, and effort then empire Mining, and it requires your complete attention on local, but the reward for the extra effort is no longer there.

[quote=Herr Hammer Draken]
Typically, it takes roughly 10 time more mining time to gather the tritanium required for a ship than the megacyte. In these conditions, and taking into account the NPC loots, it's hard to imagine how highend ore could not be overproduced.