Decrease player base is not good for busniss. See how criple all mmorpg are with less player base.... you need to balance everything not nerf here and there hopes player A is happy and player B there is always a war agains that....

Your proposals, if they went forward, would definitely raise prices and null would consider itself buffed and hi-sec nerfed. I doubt it would have any effect on average players other than making things more expensive, so you have to grind more to afford the same thing. If hi-sec can't compete people won't build there any more. The people in hi-sec would have no choice other than to move to null to continue their industrial activities or unsub their industrial characters.

Your proposals would also place industry firmly within the grasp of established nullsec alliances, shifting profits to them and away from hi-sec. I would view that as a negative thing. Nullsec is run by giant blue blobs and this would centralize even more power in their hands. In my view, nullsec is broken and this would make it even more broken. I would much rather have things the way they are than to change things as you have proposed.

I would also ask the larger philosophical question why is it necessary to shift industry to nullsec. The same things would be produced and in some cases it would even be the same alts producing the same stuff. The only thing that would be different would be the location. There is nothing stopping anyone from producing the same goods in hi-sec. What is the overriding concern that would make it necessary to shift locations for production, according to the economy it doesn't matter where it gets produced as long as it gets produced.. In my view its an irrational desire that necessitates the switching of location. It would only serve to make logistics harder and goods more expensive.

*edit* I don't buy the idea that making things more expensive doesn't matter.

Do you believe any hi sec industry alt (of a null sec player) will bother moving off hi sec once he has to pay 5000 ISK instead of 1000? They'd have to pay 20M to be "incentivized" (as they say) to leave hi sec, that is a nerf of 2,000,000%!

So your 5k per battleship cost was a boutade. Ok.

Seems like a great big hassle to me. I would unsub my industrial character and let someone else do the grind. I make more money trading anyway.

Even smart carebears might abhor the idea of being forced into null sec alliances (because once null sec would outcompete them AND have the best resources AND "the full game" that's what would just happen).
Be it because they don't have the time to participate in them or because they got burned one time too many in there.
They have to have another choice, else a portion of them may as well "make gameplay choices that are pocketbook-friendly" in the sense they stop feeding CCP with their pockets.

Another most delicate issue is the despise for industrialists that some null sec alliances show.

You can't demand every industrial to join CFC / HBC just so they can hope to not be treated like "alt worthy" persons.
Dealing with those "classic" industrials despising alliances is one of the reasons for the above mentioned "smart carebears" to just give up on EvE.
People have some pride, if the corp directors keep considering them crap it's not going to entice them to stay.
Worst of all is the case when the industrial confesses he has NO PvP character, that's a granted, immediate kick.
Having a PvP character was not a MUST when they were in hi sec, that's another way to lose people who enjoyed the crafting facet of EvE.

Also ATM there are some great issues at letting individuals set up their POSes in sov space, it has to be dealt with as well.

Personally I think, if a big alliance wanted to, it could get big mining fleets going. I mean BIG.

You think TEST couldn't mine enough minerals if it was in their interests to do it?

Cherry picking is once again a internal problem.
If you can't manage your own people or they are willing to knock it off then get rid of them.

And the idea that null can't provide enough minerals to build super capitals is completely false.
And I know this because I used to build them.

The HBC and CFC don't need, nor should they get, more power than they already have.

Yes, in fact diminishing returns should be put both in hi sec to prevent "newbies" making 3500 maelstrom at a time but also in null sec to prevent alliances from taking more than say 5% of the whole space.

For once, have the BALLS to take responsibility for your actions.