Returning player here, why was Kernite moved to lowsec? The rocks in lowsec are already plenty… an L4 storyline requires Kernite and it adds cost to us mission runners to complete such mission.
Buy it on the market. You get your isk back and then some if you sell the reward
Why ccp moved it to low, never really known why. It was apart of the restructuring of the ore.
Even before the move, i think i only mined it once in the actual mission. Every other time if i didnt buy it, id mine it from anomalies
Wormhole space has a lot of Kernite, and the rocks there are orders of magnitudes larger then the ones in k-space, too.
Another way - and this is slightly tedious - but…
Create a new character. Any space will do. You can run the career agent mission for each of the three starter corps…mining up 4k of kernite from each. You’ll also get some mild ISK and other rewards. Recycle the character, rinse and repeat. The single most tedious part will be the 10-hour recycle cooldown. Or…put a buy order in said rookie system. You’ll be swimming in Kernite in no time.
Mining the kernite is super fast in a Procurer or Endurance. And its safe.
EDIT: Making Mountains of of Molehills 9/10 is the one you want.
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the less tedious… Making Mountains of of Molehills 9/10
DON’T KILL THE RAT… just mine the ore and leave… site respawns next downtime
Even better, considering the rat does 1 DPS and could never break a Procurer.
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