Ok. I'll throw some text at you just to try to show you how it is a bit more complicated.

The first thing where your statement was oversimplified concerns the available resources and supply.
You should realize that the available supply depends on how many times ice anomalies get cycled each day. In theory (with sufficient harvesting speed), ice anomalies can be mined 6 times a day.

That means that in theory hisec can supply 96% of all ice where it currently supplies only 94%.

So even though there is a finite resource per day (it is a renewable resource), that does not automaticly mean that there is insufficient supply to meet demand. In fact there already is a finite amount of ice available in Eve, but only a small fraction of all of this is extracted.

The problem is that in Eve not all those available resources are extracted. Available resources are irrelevant when players choose not to extract them. I think the correct economic term for this is 'Economically available suypply'. In my opinion harvesting speed is a relevant factor in this economically available supply and therefore has an effect on pricing.

Another complication is that how much ice is extracted depends on what players do. Harvesting speed and price are both variables that motivate players (isk/hr), but what will happen with Odyssey cannot be predicted. Nobody (incl CCP) knows how much ice will be extracted after Odyssey. (Someone might even be crazy enough to grab a destroyer and shoot some ice miners.)

Furthermore you should realize is that you focuss too much on hisec. Some ice will be mined outside hisec. As a result pricing may be affected by what happens outside hisec.

but as i just demonstrated by basic mathematics, you can do that.

let me do it again just so you're clear.
high sec ice asteroid, ~150 units of ice, that's 150000m3 of ice.
mackinaw's ore bay, 35000m3.

150000 > 35000. as such, you can go afk until your cargo is full, just like you can now. except, only for half as long, but you can still do it.

Could you please demonstrate how this works in an ice anomaly, I can't seem to do it. Somehow the anomaly is empty before my cargo is full.

CCP Fozzie please tell something about systems that have more than one Ice belt before Odyssey. Are now every system that have Ice belt is limited to only one? Because from many hours i don't se other belts respawning in system that have before 3 Ice belts

systems with multiple belts have multiple anoms.

So there's a bug in system "Talidal" should be 3 ice belts respawning, but only 1 respawn normal (checking since Odyssey launch)

they respawn 4 hours after being completely emptied, there's no reason for them all to be spawned at once.

I know but the problem is there's only one respawning.
Ice belt showing => mined => 4h break => show again => mined => 4h break and so on... Other 2 belts ain't showing at all.

Changes to favor null ice mining based on risk -- ROFLMAO!

Except everyone knows the ice belt risk in null sec is much lower than in low sec

So there's a bug in system "Talidal" should be 3 ice belts respawning, but only 1 respawn normal (checking since Odyssey launch)

The highsec Amarrian systems that had multiple belts all have one version of the anoms, all other systems that had multiple belts have multiple anoms. (And a few highsec systems actually have more anoms than they had belts, as part of the balancing between volumes of racial ice available in highsec).

Sorry, I've realized I wasn't clear about that when I was discussing the changes to Amarrian highsec ice.

Two days into this and mostly Im like... I like the changes..... BUT....

The new ice mining system sucks for me. I work fulltime had 5 accounts, now 4 ..... I can't wait around Sigga all night for a ice belt to spawn. Ice mining was my anti-stress routine at night. I'm yet to smell an ice spawn in Sigga.

Im now forced to scale down my eve playing to 3 accounts thanks to this. I can't maintain two posses anymore so Im pulling down my Wormhole pos.... not happy.... I am a wormholer.

PS.. I still go dizzy jumping gates... love it!!!

I have only 1 account and I support 3 pos towers - what are you doing wrong?
Do you not have any corpmates to help with the ice mining or something? We have ice to last through December at this rate.

Eve solo is always a bad idea my friend.

I enjoy ice mining and now I can't Ice mine.

And one more thing, why there's only 1500 racial Ice on anomaly in system Talidal? Should be 2500...

Yep checked it few times on belt respawn

As mentioned before, these belts will appear in systems that currently have ice belts, and will re-spawn four hours after they are depleted.

I have only 1 account and I support 3 pos towers - what are you doing wrong?
Do you not have any corpmates to help with the ice mining or something? We have ice to last through December at this rate.

Eve solo is always a bad idea my friend.

To all the solo miners and their whining... this is a MMO. It can be, but is not intended to be played solo. The best rewards are for those who cooperate with other players. Adapt or find something else to do.

Also - If your POS relied on you mining the fuel to keep it running, you were doing it wrong. All economic equations of the money making venture you were doing should have included the market cost of the fuel before deciding to start the activity. The extra money made by mining it yourself should have been seen as that, extra profit.

Do you REALLY think that this game is NOT intended to be played solo just because it is MMO? MMO means Multi Player. That means there are multiple players - that does not mean a player isn't meant to played solo. Don't go making stuff up - you don't know what you are talking about. I am not whining but in actuality whining will get you pretty far in this world.

I've wanted that for a while, but to do it right we'd need to allow faster cycling ice miners that create smaller blocks. And I have no idea how we would go about implementing that.