whats the insurance on a bs & a commandschip?

a command shio bpo can max produce 20ish ships a month.

You can't run copies of T2 BPOs then use those to produce faster?

You can't run copies of T2 BPOs then use those to produce faster?

whats the insurance on a bs & a commandschip?

a command shio bpo can max produce 20ish ships a month.

Looking at the mineral prices I'd say it's the miners that are happy now, only difference is that you have to think and keep an eye on local.

With the increased amount of potential profit, there are more miners competing for limited rocks. Remember, the respawns are at static times. Also, the increased amount of miners, also known as bait fish, attracts more sharks, also known as gankers.
And yes, I am sure no known ganker will swap out his Catalyst or Tornado for a covops and go afk in a system.
Exhumer pilots will CERTAINLY risk their boats on the off chance the known ganker is indeed afk, not lurking.

Plus we have this little event known as Hulkageddon starting in 3 weeks.

It will be all peaches and cream for miners in high sec.

Interestingly, Faction and T2 ships and modules are not raising in price as fast as regular ones.

My guess would be since their price comes mostly from the semi-rarity (and moon goo for T2), the mineral price flux has less effect than T1 stuff.

The solution to this is massive Hull HP increase for mining craft. Not Armor not shield HULL!

Remove the alpha advantage gankers have and people will mine again.

I'd find it too boring, I don't play MMOs to fall asleep at the keyboard.

Or a powergrid role bonus for Shield extenders.

mining will still be the lowest income in the game. guy makes 100mil mining only to see that the combat ship he wants to buy has risen to 100mil. i dont understand people saying there will be more miners. Maybe if everything was the same price it 3 months ago. At this point i log on to see ship prices and think about going to pvp then loololol and log off. Ill just fly more frigs and cruisers.

Because as the price of minerals goes up, the amount of isk/hour you make from mining exceeds that of the isk/hour you get from other sources.

Why do people keep asking this question? Is it that hard to figure out?

You're both wrong really.

Mining is only getting more profitable relative to isk faucets which are, as result of inflation, becoming less valuable.

However, as any increase in mining isk/hour can only happen as a direct result of that inflation, the amount of time you must spend mining in order to pay for something is not reduced. The more you make from mining the more you must pay for things.

Ofc mining may well end up being the most profitable profession, but even if you could make a billion isk/hour mining it would still take you the same amout of time to save up and buy a battleship as it does now because that battleship will cost 10 billion isk.

You're both wrong really.

Mining is only getting more profitable relative to isk faucets which are, as result of inflation, becoming less valuable.

However, as any increase in mining isk/hour can only happen as a direct result of that inflation, the amount of time you must spend mining in order to pay for something is not reduced. The more you make from mining the more you must pay for things.

Ofc mining may well end up being the most profitable profession, but even if you could make a billion isk/hour mining it would still take you the same amout of time to save up and buy a battleship as it does now because that battleship will cost 10 billion isk.

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Ofc mining may well end up being the most profitable profession, but even if you could make a billion isk/hour mining it would still take you the same amout of time to save up and buy a battleship as it does now because that battleship will cost 10 billion isk.

But miners aren't generally needing to buy Battleships. Or any ships at all very often as long as they are smart/lucky enough to avoid occasional ganks.

If high sec gets too 'hot' then the people that really love to mine need to be taking their characters and skill to Null Sec where mining can be done in a managed risk environment.

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What is the point of making more ISK per hour if I just pay more when I buy a ship?