Sheesh, will you miners ever listen. CCP maee drone alloys the only source of PVE income (excluding salvage and borked mag/rad sites) in the Drone Regions. People HAVE to make a living there, hence they're a bit peeved that the anomolies and drop amount have been nerfed. Considering the extra effort that players in the drone regions have to exert to realise the ISK, this has made them quite angry.

Now, back to you miners, if you want your mineral fix, fine, just come up with some suggestiong about alternatives for making ISK in these regions instead of just whining about how minerals should just be for miners.

Personally i think this argument is flawed.

Lets have a look at Plush sales, the premier Rogue Drone compound: http://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=11725 - 1.6 million units on the market at the moment.

Now at Veldspar sales: http://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=1230 - 346 million units on sale.

That's less than 1 in 200 of Plush to Veld.

Yes compounds are used extensively in the Rogue Drone lands, as well as used to sell finished good to other alliances in 0.0.

But to kill off mining? Really?

I seriously do not want CCP to remove compounds and add bounties, mining is such a **** boring JOB that i for one do not want to do.

I think one of the better things that could be looked at though is the viability of changing some systems in other regions to have Rogue Drone rats. Not many systems, maybe a few in each different region. Make those systems a target system ala good tru sec systems, they could be rich in resources, less trouble to harvest, but be good afk cloaky systems.

All high sec missioners get random rogue drone missions, and drones themselves are quite different Vs other rats, why not capitalise on that instead of pushing people forcibly into a mining barge?

mining makes what, 4mil per hour in highsec?
running a mission that takes probably less then an hour is like 10 mil.

With the new tech II mining gang links and the current mineral prices, I make right at 12mil an hour mining. And thats in Empire space.

12mill... You are talking about the most ideal case you can get...

Sheesh, will you miners ever listen. CCP maee drone alloys the only source of PVE income (excluding salvage and borked mag/rad sites) in the Drone Regions. People HAVE to make a living there, hence they're a bit peeved that the anomolies and drop amount have been nerfed. Considering the extra effort that players in the drone regions have to exert to realise the ISK, this has made them quite angry.

Now, back to you miners, if you want your mineral fix, fine, just come up with some suggestiong about alternatives for making ISK in these regions instead of just whining about how minerals should just be for miners.

Don't worry. They're thinking about nuking alloys completely and replace them with something else.

Final Edit:

It seems as though at least some of the miners want CCP to look at the way mining works. If so, then CCP should look at mining in detail, and not rush out a fix that does more harm than good. Thus:

Short term - Increase the alloy drops from drone horde battleships so that the ISK per minute is equal to what it was before the drone horde "fix." That won't have any additional effect on the game mineral supply, but will simply return us to the situation before Crucible. No-one will win, and no-one will lose, and everyone can be equally unhappy, which will give you time to get things sorted.

Long term - Look at all the data you have available and decide on a good long-term plan for both the drone regions and for mining, then dedicate the necessary resources to implement it.