Miners don't get respect in null. They get treated like renters... renters wearing dresses.

2) How about, because they actually earned them?

That's generally because mining in null is currently a rather pointless thing to do.
If it's made worthwhile then nobody's going to be laughing. It will be treated with the same respect as ratting (which frankly doesn't get treated with much respect either).

Regarding Ore/Ice mining. Many high-sec bears will be just that. No amount of convincing will move them over to low/null sec.
Some options they are probably considering:
- If one is a high-sec Ore miner, become an Ice miner. Join the throngs of pilots that will do the same, and learn to ninja the Ice belts that spawn, creating a monopoly for themselves.
- Join the high-sec incursion bear community.
- Unsub their high-sec bear accounts.

I would suspect that the percentage of miners that will actually move is less than 10%. Which means CCP is counting on the null-bears (bots) to pick up the slack. I am not a gambling person; so not sure of the outcome.

So CCP must have considered these 'risks vs. rewards', as they like to put it, and decided to move forward with these changes. Only time will tell if the change was good on their behalf (if their overall subscription goes up or down).

2) How about, because they actually earned them?

At the same time as we seed these new minerals into moons, we will also be somewhat reducing the time required to complete a moon scan, to ensure that players can find the new minerals in a reasonable time period.

You are proposing a massive shift in game balance

You can bet that ice interdiction parties by the null sec cartels will be a common thing.
They have the resources, pilots, and organization to mine out ice belts FAST, and at the same time bump/ destroy any other non-allied mining ships from the belts.

It will become a situation that they will have ongoing threads on their private forums stating the precise time that a new belt will spawn, allowing the next wave of their pilots 4 TZ's over to grab the entire belt's worth of ice.

I think you seriously overestimate their ability to do this to more than a handful of ice belts. They might be able to do more if they commit a significant portion of their pilots to the task, but they're not going to care that much to do it.

Yeah, because having a 24/7 icemining division in highsec has always been mittens favorite wet dream

No as I said they do deserve more than what they have been given but 500-700 is just way too much.

Maybe you could elaborate on how you believed they earned the right to between 36,000 and 50,400 manufacturing slots?

Yes I do believe they need more slots and even more than what has been proposed but 36,000 + slots?

Maybe you could elaborate on how you believed they earned the right to between 36,000 and 50,400 manufacturing slots?

Yes I do believe they need more slots and even more than what has been proposed but 36,000 + slots?

Not sure where you're getting those numbers from.

We currently have 28 Amarr outposts and 44 other outposts.

If we fully upgrade all our Amarr outposts (unlikely, but let's run with it) we'd have 230*28 = 6440 manufacturing slots, plus say 500 more from non-amarr outposts depending on upgrade level and direction.

We have 121 sovereign systems. 72 of them already have outposts and are accounted for above. If we fill the remaining 49 systems with fully upgraded Amarr factories we'd have another 11270 manufacturing slots, or roughly 18000 in total, a pretty far cry from the 36-50 thousand you pulled out of your ass.

I believe he was replying to Tippia's assertion that 0.0 stations should be upgradeable to match the best hi-sec systems @ 700 slots or so.

edit: Derp, you get three T1 upgrades, not two. Math corrected.