Will the mining crits and faster mining cycles translate into the mining drones?
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This might help you, lots of over explaining in there.
Meanwhile, what I forecast, might mean nothing at all. I will let you decide.
More speed out of mining lasers, only 15 seconds per cycle instead of 60.
More production, this means more ore and minerals available on the Jita market hub. This mean prices will drop. People and bots who mine rare ore making X amount of ISK in the market will find themselves making the same amount of ISK over the same amount of time.
Let’s take bezdnacine from today’s market (28.10.2025) selling at 14 K and buying at 11 K. If I were mining this rock, in a crappy venture, with 151 per laser 302 total. After 16 to 17 minutes of mining, I would have 312 rocks in the cargo, total net load at market is 4.3 M / 3.4 M.
However once the market is saturated, prices will drop, your bezdnacine will be selling at 3.5 K and buying at 2.8 K. After mining the full load in under 4 minutes, 312 rocks will worth 1 M / 858 K at market. This is the simple terms of supply and demand. You will need 4 times the amount to nail the old mark.
I have yet to see, if the new mining laser times apply elsewhere. I think gas is safe? I haven’t seen anything about gas harvesters changes. I have currently liquidated all my standard ores in the market. If you play the market, this new feature will effect market prices and not just the standard ore. There will be a trickle down effect into the minerals they produce, the ships, ammo, and guns as well.
I think the miners will love spending less time to get a load in, but the impact by this January, might prove to be a financial one to those selling and not reprocessing their ores. It might take longer, since the max market order time is 3 months.
What do you mean with “more production”? Do you think miners will suddenly mine 4x the ore they did before? Doubt. Imho they will make the exact same amount of mining yield per minute, just the lasers cycle faster.
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