I can't help but replace "bot" with "immigrant", "ice" with "produce" and "mining" with "agriculture" in the OP.

Demand can go down, FCs might think twice before hotdropping when they could fly the long way. POSes would become far more expensive and important.javascript:__doPostBack('forum$ctl00$PostReply','')

Supply can go up, as suddenly ice mining is FAR more lucrative for a begining player. In my day I mined Kernite for my first battleship and liked it.

Kill the Mexic.. er... bots. I mean bots. Kill them all.

Honestly, Nerf jump freighters, it'll change the game in fantastic ways. Suddenly players spread out everywhere instead of just mining in high sec to support all the 0.0 players that are too busy raking in billions of isk to bother mining their own minerals/ice.

Suddenly, nullsec powerblocks with JBs and the people and infrastructure to run freighter convoys every other days keep raking in bilions of ISK, and small alliances who can't will have to lose half of their combat pilots to dig rocks. Surely a great way to balance the game.

the market bots that bother people need to go FIRST.

I have seen a recent decline in market bots in Amarr, 1 was left but, its actually a really nice one, I heard some one jacked it up for 500M recently =) tee hee hee

Easiest way to do that is to charge a percentage of the order value in exchange for changing the price (0.01% or something). You'd see fewer, but more meaningful, price changes.

1. T2 BPOs from the lotto drive T2 prices not invention.

off topic but actually it's the other way around.
before invention t2 prices were higher. t2 bpo owners had to adjust there margins down after invention kicked in. There are just a couple items that are not worth inventing now. (I might be wrong but this is how I percept this)

Mostly true - the main advantage that T2 BPO owners have is that they don't have to include the cost of datacores into their jobs. For many T2 items, the cost of producing a BPC and spending datacores on the invention step can be anywhere from 20-40% (ballpark) of the cost of the item. The waste amounts for a -4 ME T2 BPC don't really factor in until you get into the much more expensive items (such as T2 hulls). Plus T2 BPO owners can just set up their production line to run for a week or two at a time, rather then having to run stuff off as single-unit jobs or 10-19 unit jobs (with no real control over timing).

(T2 mining crystals are a popular item to trot out in these debates. Most of them sell for far less then what it costs to invent. For a T2 veldspar crystal, it costs about 250k ISK to invent. They sell for less then 80k ISK.)

So, removing bots wouldn't have too much of an impact on T2 prices. Naturally, if the underlying T1 items went up in cost, so would the T2 items. Depending on the item that might be a lot or a little.