See that’s just your personal bias. The reality is both are completely replaceable. The issue is the quality of the replacement. In both cases it’s awful.
Now I’ll concede that miners are easier to replace as the gameplay is of a more predictable nature. But that doesn’t mean they should be replaced or that it would be good to replace them. The result would be as I said before, less targets in space, less ore being moved around, NPC’ setting ore prices and therefore providing a minimum price for essentially every item that can be manufactured in the game. Reduced market pvp. Unlimited supplies presumably since NPC sell orders don’t tend to run out.
Now you know I fully support ganking and have no issues with it. I think NPC gank fleets is an awful idea. I’m not advocating for it. I’m just stating it’s possible regardless of how bad it would be. Because……… as you read above I’m being told……………
Miners are worthless because they can be replaced by NPC’s. A positioned being put forward simply as a “miner get back in your box” and completely ignoring the negatives of the change and how it would also go against the dynamic pvp agenda.
Applying that logic ANY activity can by replaced by NPC’s. And in every single case the game would be worse off for it. Including mining.
So maybe we should quit arguing about ridiculous hypotheticals that are not going to be implemented? No?