Zifrian
Deep Space Innovations
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Posted - 2012.01.23 03:19:00 -
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From a mining perspective (I sometimes mine), there is no incentive to leave high-sec. Even with hulkageddon and other ganking of high-sec mining, there is just not enough of an incentive to go to low/null sec to mine.
Using these numbers: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/51/orcawithmaxhulk.jpg
So maxed out hulk with a nearly maxed out Orca, and I could make the same thing in highsec. Why leave? For Arkonor and Bistot?
Let's see, pros and cons of high vs. null.
Pro null sec:
- Arkonor and Bistot
- Rorqual
Con null sec:
- Cloaking reds
- Hot drops / PVP roams
- Have to jump all your mining equipment to null or get through 30+ hops of gate camps with bubbles
- Refining your ore sucks, or you need to move it to a station, which isn't always good either, usually station not in same system you mine in
- You have to find someone to tank rats to get max yield, they usually want a cut of your profit
- Fight over little bit of arkonor and bistot that shows up in the hidden belt you spent the last 5 hours mining crap you could mine in empire to get the industry upgrade up if you don't have natural belts (all while your combat friends can get high level anoms with very little effort with military upgrades and make far more isk per hour)
- Jumping minerals to market unless you have an alliance buyer
- Replacement equipment harder to get
- A lot of time wasted on things other than mining
Pro of high sec:
- Perfect refining
- Easy access to market
- Can get equipment anytime you want
- Rats are frigates and can be killed with small drones
- No bubbles
- Concord protection
- Can read a book/watch a movie and mine
- Stations in almost every system
- Can make the same as Crokite and same or better than all low sec ores
- Never have to scan down a belt to make good isk
- Time is always well spent, mine when you want, don't when you don't
Con of high sec:
- Hulkageddon
- Random gankers/can flippers
For all the crying and whining about high-sec miners goes, when it comes down to comparing the two, It's not really a tough decision why people would rather mine in high-sec over null.
For the record, I really wish CCP would balance it out towards null sec. But right now, I'm only going to do what is the best use of my time. Going to null sec is down at the bottom of that list.
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