Either you misunderstand, or willfully do not understand the relationship between velocity and align time tradeoffs when mining. I’ll try one final time by giving a concrete scenario:
- My ship has a Higgs and other things to make its velocity, slow as can be. Let’s say my 75% speed is 10m/s.
- Lets say it has 30s align time. This is way worse than MWD trick of 10s.
I land at a belt, and pre-align to a known safe point. Over the next 30s, I am vulnerable as I begin aligning.
You land at the belt next to me. You sit there and mine.
Over the next 10 minutes, I am travelling at my 75% speed of 10m/s and drift 6km from my rock, to stay pre-aligned. No biggie, my lasers have 15km range. Your ship stays in place. My 30s align time no longer matters, as after the 30s, I’m already pre-aligned and ready to warp with zero seconds. Yes, zero! No matter what the fitting window says!
Gankers come on D-Scan. I click “warp” and enter warp in 0 seconds – again, fitting window doesn’t matter. You begin the MWD trick and have a 10 second vulnerability with the gankers. Or let’s say you’re the fastest person at priming the MWD and pull off the trick in 4 seconds, then you only have a 4 second vulnerability. That is still greater than 0: I’m out of the belt already at this point, the gankers have only one target available left and it isn’t me.
That is the power of Higgs mining: how you fly your ships matters, as piloting skill is a thing even for slow bricks.