I like your style and if you ever do the talk it proves the current system is full of win. A war between miners in highsec over ice ... damn!

Seen they were limiting the Ice anomalies to 2500 units in high sec before the anomaly expires. That sure is going to cause a lot of whinage here on the forums with ice being that limited, he he he. Halving the harvesters cycle times, plus lots of miners (I usually notice on average 60 miners in high sec ice belts) in the anomalies trying to vie for their piece of the pie, means those anomalies should expire quite quickly. Might just pop me some popcorn and go hang out, watch what happens. Could be quite entertaining.

I wonder how long it will take High Sec Ice Mining Corps to incorporate squads of "insert gankship name here" into their Corp structure, sitting in the system station ready to "gank" competition as they arrive on the ice grid lol

I'd like to think that the smart ones already have, or have at least started preparing along those lines.

i doubt it, i can't see how the security loss of repeatedly ganking miners outweighs just training another miner and mining the ice out from under them.

I'd like to think that the smart ones already have, or have at least started preparing along those lines.

Seen they were limiting the Ice anomalies to 2500 units in high sec before the anomaly expires. That sure is going to cause a lot of whinage here on the forums with ice being that limited, he he he. Halving the harvesters cycle times, plus lots of miners (I usually notice on average 60 miners in high sec ice belts) in the anomalies trying to vie for their piece of the pie, means those anomalies should expire quite quickly. Might just pop me some popcorn and go hang out, watch what happens. Could be quite entertaining.

The best part of this change is it's going to wreak havoc on botter's income. Also, congrats to those who stocked up on ice product before Odyssey... you are gonna make yourselves some nice ISK off the ice.

When dude with 20 accounts cant mine ice anymore guess what he will cancel all of them

i disagree. players like that are the ones who, at the moment, own the ice belts. they turn up and strip them clean in less than an hour. for them this change isn't so bad. they are making huge amounts of isk/hour from it.

the people who will cancel accounts are players like me with say, 3-5 accounts. it's simply not viable to compete with players running 20 accounts. you either accept that your slice of the cake is smaller post odyssey or you diversify. personally i've chosen to diversify.

however yeah, i can see people dropping their 2nd/3rd miner's accounts, and possibly even their orca pilot's accounts. that won't bode well but i'm sure it won't be as bad as eve going free to play.

There are many players with 20+ accounts
I would say one ice belt in empire might support 2 of these players the rest are going to get little to no ice and will cancel

i have been watching this change closely, about 40 players or 2 squads can take down a belt in less than 1.5 hours it then takes another 4 hours to re-spawn. during that time anyone who logs on to mine is SOL that mechanic will = account cancels

I personally was looking forward to dual training with money made from ice mining, now that isn't possible and I am thinking about dropping my ice miners, BPO researcher and indy characters and using the rest for pve, pi, and mining

might even have to sell my Silver Shore overcoat and monocle

why isn't ice mining possible any more? i was doing it this morning, seems perfectly possible to me.

It still is possible, but as you say the slice of pie is smaller so I will keep a few character subbed and do something else. rather do something constantly than wait around for the next spawn, or chase around systems checking for the next anomaly. I can just move from belt to belt with a couple of characters, or run missions.