You asked me to give specifics on why your motives weren't the same as the public, I did. You don't get to be upset now that they make you look greedy and petty. I have listed time and again why this is going to hurt the ice mining profession, for both the casual and hardcore players. Making false sweeping generalizations does not disprove anything I have said.

• Please explain how casual highsec players are going to be able to get into ice mining when no ice belts will exist during primetime?
• Please explain how they'll be able to shift to mining ore in ore belts that are stripped clean within hours of DT every day?
• Please explain why it makes sense to artificially add ice restrictions to low/nullsec when the intended goal is to increase supply out there
• Please explain why removing Dark Glitter from lowsec entirely is going to increase the amount of ozone that's being supplied (DG currently exists in .1 systems, after the patch it won't)
• Please explain why the rorqual should not be able to compress ice at a decent rate
• Please explain where all the ozone in the galaxy is going to come from once nullsec supply is nerfed

Once again you, a non-industrialist, are trying to control the mining profession. This is like a council of men voting that abortion should be illegal. You claim my math is hilariously off, but give no numbers. My numbers are accurate. You say highsec easily supplies its own demand of ozone, but that is OBVIOUSLY not true. This only highlights how little you understand the intricate details of the profession. Highsec ice produces ozone:HW at a 1:2 ratio, there is never enough ozone to match demand.

Perhaps you'd care to take a look at our old galaxy wide ozone analysis or our galaxy wide heavy water analysis. Please explain where highsec is getting their ozone from? Please explain how they will get enough ozone now that you can consider their supply of ice cut to 80% production of what that is. Please explain how if right now nullsec is only mass multiboxing miners... that if we take away their ability to function that the ozone supply in the galaxy will still be sufficient? It won't.

You see, we've run the numbers. We've been miners from the start. We know the system. I'm telling you, these changes are going to make ice mining untenable.

Let's examine the changes to the supply of ozone in the galaxy.

This is a chart showcasing the changes to ice, and the new ice product yield from the ice anomalies.

The very last chart in that picture shows the relative ozone supply yield from mining in each of these systems before and after the changes. The "New" column is including the x2 mining rate, and the "Old" column is still the 1x mining rate. The mining yields compared in this chart assume that the new ice anomalies respawn instantly. And since they don't the actually supply of ozone will be substantially less than shown.

• Lowsec will yield less than 16.18% the ozone it used to
• Bad Nullsec will yield less than 44.88% the ozone it used to
• Good Nullsec will yield less than 59.27% the ozone it used to

Points of Order:

Ozone and the other ice products will rise in value accordingly and you'll still make >= isk/hr
Probably. But the galaxy is still going to be massively shorted on the supply of ozone.

You mine twice as fast so you'll pull in ozone faster
False. You used to be able to mine pure ozone by mining pure Dark Glitter. Dark Glitter now constitutes a very small percentage of the new ice fields. And those ice fields are being artificially restricted with 4hr respawn timers that will restrict the supply of ozone even further.

But you get ozone from the other nullsec ices
True, but those ices are still far less than what Dark Glitter supplied to the galaxy in ozone before the expansion. Therefore the overall supply of ozone will still decrease substantially. The chart is including all those ozone sources in the calculations.

Why does CCP hate lowsec so much?
I don't know. But ice mining in lowsec is about to get a whole lot worse.

Why should we care that ozone is going to be expensive?
As an individual miner you don't need to. As a speculator it's a great time to invest in ozone. Increasing the value of ozone dramatically in relation to the other ice products is contrary to the intended design of sec status correlated ice spawns. As you can see here, ozone was meant to be a common product of low-end ices. While high-end ices were meant to favor an ultra rare and presumably expensive strontium. This is obviously not how things turned out. But it'd still be nice if the ices were restored to a tiered value system where Krystallos was actually the best ice. Inverted ozone output of each ice would have this effect.

Did you have a specific complaint with the numbers that you didn't understand?