Mister Xerox
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Posted - 2008.12.22 13:43:00 -
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Edited by: Mister Xerox on 22/12/2008 13:43:40
 Originally by: Bunyip
Hello all,
In Null-sec, this would give them the Veldspar they need to construct their massive engines of war without a dependance upon high-security space. They would still have a demand, given profit per hour, of the high-end minerals.
Uhhhh... can I have what yer smokin, Bunyip? I mean, there is insane quantities of veldspar in nullsec. My gawds there are MOON SIZED ROIDS of the stuff! Not to mention hauler spawns dropping tens of millions of units of Trit/Pyer and other minerals.
Originally by: Bunyip
In low-sec, this would give some incentive for miners to come there. They would, of course, bring protection fleets (as not many mine in low-sec without them), giving rise to PvP.
Nothing short of removing wandering ganks will coax carebears out of highsec into the untenable ventures of lowsec. Finding a sweet gravi belt in lowsec is hardly fun when the wandering ganks can find your ship in 1/1000th the time you spent finding the gravi (being in the gravi zone does not reduce your sig enough to provide even a modicum of protection from being probed out in less than 3 minutes). And mining in an actual lowsec belt is 100% sheer suicide... no matter what kind of ore you stick there no one will mine it short of massive blobs (that will be cross-blobbed in less than 30 minutes by wandering ganks).
Simply put, there is no way to defend your mining operation in lowsec as you can in nullsec. You can't claim sov, can't anchor defenses, can't do anything but stay aligned and warp out every time a new face enters local.
I am npt espousing that lowsec be made 'safe' by any means... but CCP needs to look at how a miner (or small group, or blob) can survive the wandering pirates that would make short work of any mining ship they run across. Make it easier for them to evade, or more difficult to be found by, wandering pirates and they'll be on much the same level as heavily sov'd nullsec. A hungry pirate willing to be patient can find them, sure... but right now no patience is required, just warp belt to belt or scan from a planet and voila, easy kill.
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