Yes, the cause of the problem is the mechanic which forces null-sec miners to mine out an entire anomaly to get the next one to spawn.

However, changing the mineral composition of ores is not the best solution. Will CCP need to repeat the process every patch as each mineral, one by one, becomes the one with the shortage?

Question: why would we need to add timers to artificially incentivize mining different types of ore?

Yes, the cause of the problem is the mechanic which forces null-sec miners to mine out an entire anomaly to get the next one to spawn.

However, changing the mineral composition of ores is not the best solution. Will CCP need to repeat the process every patch as each mineral, one by one, becomes the one with the shortage?

High sec miners are able to cherry-pick whichever ore is worth the most. They are also able to move from region to region if they don't think they are getting enough isk per hour. Null sec miners should also be given the option to cherry pick whichever ore is worth the most or contains the minerals they need.

Possible easy solution: Double the size of anomalies. The next anomaly spawns when the first is 50% mined, rather than fully mined out. The old anomaly then despawns (perhaps after a short time delay.) When someone has a glut of megacyte, they would then have the option to let the arkanor asteroids despawn while they mined something they actually needed.

Producers halting their production because of an inability to source minerals reduces overall demand for all minerals, dropping prices.

This is so blatantly non-sequitor either you're being disingenuous or worse. Lack of supply drives up prices, without exception.

I used to HAULER in t1 compression mods, and you can JUMP IN ores. And you have the GALL to cry about it? I built an outpost using HAULERs to harvest rat mineral spawns, with a group of about 10 others. And then about 30 of us HAULERed them to the outpost all bloody night long.

Eve isn't a silver platter, and you don't get a silver spoon no matter how much you Cry Us. Suck it up, and adapt or (preferably) die.

As for the High End market collapse, I think CCP should've changed Ore anomalies the same way as they did Pirate anomalies. Remove most high end ores in -0.1 and -0.2 and have more, the lower the security rating gets.

Acutally what eve needs is a more complete overhaul of the basic mining concept.

So, to re-propose what I've suggested before, just take the empire and lowsec ores, everything between Veldspar and Jaspet, out of nullsec sites.

When I had initially made this suggestion it was with an eye to making nullsec mining a bit more attractive, and so I'd also said "and then adjust the mineral content of the nullsec ores so that the overall mineral content of a site remains approximately the same." As you'd remove 10-15% of the volume of the site, yet retained the total value of the site, the isk/hr from mining would rise accordingly. At least at the time it boosted mining income up to be roughly on par with low effort ratting, which I think put it in a reasonable place. I'm not sure if that's still true with current mineral prices, though. I'm not sure sure if that's true with current mineral prices though...but there's more. I've somehow rambled on to four thousand characters though, so "more" comes next post.

Let me recap the issues

Ore Supply in Null

• Nullsec is already mining a large amount of ore via Industrial Upgrade Ore Anomalies
• The existing ore anomalies are very top heavy- meaning that they have a huge quantity of high end minerals and not a huge quantity of low end minerals (see: zyd/mega prices)
• There isn't "infinite" ore of a specific type, because each belt must be 100% mined out before it respawns
• Mining in actual belts in nullsec is much worse isk/hour than mining in empire because of aforementioned mineral prices
• There is a severe shortage of mexallon (and some isogen) in nullsec belts; meanwhile, there is a crushingly imbalanced surplus of high end minerals

Filling the Gap

• In order to fill the Mex gap, we currently need to import from high sec
• The nerf to modules means that a significant source of minerals was nerfed across the board
• A considerable portion of high sec miners don't compress their ore, and instead refine it directly in high sec stations. This reduces the pre-Crius supply even further because of the reduced efficiency of High Sec stations
• As soon as ore is refined into minerals, there is no way to get it into a compressed - "easy to move" - format, without taking a gigantic loss.
• A great number of miners in high sec don't read forums, don't do math (as shown by vocal posters in other threads in S&I), and therefore don't compress their ore for additional profit.
• Additionally, there is a barrier to entry for compression in high sec, which some miners assume is too high to enter the compressed market space

Therefore- the compressed market was severely hit post Crius. The mineral supply issue has always been a problem, but was being staunched by being able to import minerals via modules. The current state of supply in nullsec is imbalanced to the point that is going to continue to crash the high end markets- production has considerably slowed in null, reducing the relative demand for all minerals (but especially high ends).

This would be a whole new topic- a mining minigame would be less boring

There as been a lot of suggestion for a Minigame of some kind for mining. If you are in highsec, playing a mini-game while you are mining is acceptable, and relatively safe.

If you are in lowsec, nullsec, or w-space, and there is a mini-game, you are forcing people to pay less attention on local or d-scan which is a bad thing. Please kindly stop suggesting a mini-game as miners in any sec status apart from high will need to focus on local, d-scan for safety and cannot maximise mining via playing a mini-game.

If you are in lowsec, nullsec, or w-space, and there is a mini-game, you are forcing people to pay less attention on local or d-scan which is a bad thing. Please kindly stop suggesting a mini-game as miners in any sec status apart from high will need to focus on local, d-scan for safety and cannot maximise mining via playing a mini-game.

But don't lower security status system already generate ore anoms with only the +5% and the +10% variants?

What about mercoxit spawns? Messing with those could be dangerous.

How would this benefit any new entity to nullsec or any new player?

Would this drive power into deeper nullsec? (Blue donut effect?)

So you have a shortage of Omber... how about you reflect that in market and start paying for it better... like stop it being the worst ISK/hour ore, even Veldspar is above it.

What mechanic is broken, where the issues you are presenting are not player behavior based?

As expressed in EVERY SINGLE OTHER WHINE THREAD YOU ALREADY HAVE ON THIS MATTER (Seriously, and you say high sec whines). Mine your static belts.
It's not hard, and solves your issue. You ALREADY HAVE THE MEANS TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM.

But it's too hard to actually adapt for a Goon we can see, instead you need CCP to hold your hand and change everything for you to win. Seriously, you know if CCP do this, it's going to be outright proof Goons run CCP now, because you already have all the ore you need in static belts. I stuck my head out to personally verify that ore exists even.

As expressed in EVERY SINGLE OTHER WHINE THREAD YOU ALREADY HAVE ON THIS MATTER (Seriously, and you say high sec whines). Mine your static belts.
It's not hard, and solves your issue. You ALREADY HAVE THE MEANS TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM.

But it's too hard to actually adapt for a Goon we can see, instead you need CCP to hold your hand and change everything for you to win. Seriously, you know if CCP do this, it's going to be outright proof Goons run CCP now, because you already have all the ore you need in static belts. I stuck my head out to personally verify that ore exists even.