JC Ferguson
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2011.07.29 01:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Jita Bloodtear
I'm surprised it's taken me this long to find this thread. I find no fault with the logic or presentation of facts from the OP. That being said, high end minerals are crashing in the markets like crazy. There's far too great a supply coming in from WH space and nullsec.
As a hardcore nullsec miner (I wrote the guide on the dominion industry upgrades) I can vouch there's at least some work that goes into maintaining a high industry system (ie. you have to mine low-level ores if you want to refresh a belt and maintain industry rating). My impression with WH divers were that it was more of an opportunistic cherry picking venture to pick out ABC (probably mostly just Arkanor nowadays) and then head out. That being said, I do empathize with your 75% local refine.
I know from nullsec I personally generated tens of millions of arkonor and zydrine, but I'm skeptical of the CSM claims that WH miners generate a significant percentage of the ABC. If I had to pull numbers of of the blue, I'd estimate 15-30% of zydr/mega comes from WHs, and the rest comes from our nullsec infinitely renewable belts. I do think supply needs to be cut, and the next logical step is to probably nerf Dominion industry upgrades to become tied to sec status, just like they did with sanctums. They could also stand to cut ABC from low end WHs. All I know is there's too much supply.
You still don't get it. Whether you're ninja-mining or not, WH mining is far more dangerous and less lucrative than mining in K-space 0.0. Therefore nerfing it is wrong. You don't nerf something that's already underpowered. So no, they could NOT also 'stand to cut ABC from low end WHs.' They COULD stand to cut ABC from where the mining bots live, sov K-space 0.0.
You don't buff dramiels. You don't nerf Electronic Attack Frigates and Black Ops BS. For the same reason, you don't nerf ABC in any WH, let alone the most dangerous (the ones with K-space access) ones. Many people are too proud/stupid/trollish to admit the obvious. Are you?
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