I seriously don’t know what’s so hard to understand about this point.
I’m not telling people to stop mining altogether.
I’m telling them they can keep mining, let’s say, Veldspar and Plagio, to obtain the minerals available in High Sec, while selling any extra ore/minerals they don’t need for whatever they are making for liquid isk, which they can then use to obtain the ore/minerals that aren’t available in High Sec.
If you ever required Morphite for one of your builds before, then you probably wouldn’t bother travelling to Null for some Mercoxit mining, if you could simply buy it nearby for a reasonable price, and stick to your region as you always did.
If price of Nocxium seems expensive for you now, that’s because it’s still under the player market adjustment.
As more people join up in Low Sec mining with Rorquals alongside the current gold rush to see who can colonize it faster/better, then prices will eventually stabilize further.
We have already seen that happening with High Sec ores, with people overmining Veldspar to oblivion while it was more profitable than the other ores.
Eventually, it’s price got even with Plagio as it used to be before, and now you can mine both and still come out with more isk then you used to, simply due to these being exclusive to High Sec now, making them more scarce in other regions.
The only impossible thing now is obtaining Nocxium by mining in High Sec.
It’s not impossible to obtain Nocxium itself. It’s not been removed from the game
People need to stop acting as like this is the case, and actually give an attempt at adapting.
If you don’t wish to leave High Sec, then source Nocxium form the market. It’s as simple as that.
Do you need to source Tritanium, Pyerite and Mexallon as well? No, if you can/want to spend your time mining in High Sec.
If you had 2h to spend mining before, then you should still have the same 2h to mine now.
If all you really wish to do is manufacture, you might as well do ratting for more liquid income in those 2 hours, purchase everything you need for your industry jobs, and then be the sole manufacturer, while leaving the job of material procurement to others.
Wrong.
It’s like a furniture artisan that harvested all the wood from trees and pelts from animals to make their products being unable to manufacture them because now hunting animals is illegal in their region, and they can’t get the pelts anymore.
They either go hunting for pelts elsewhere, or sell some wood they cut to purchase pelts from the market, which have been collected from approved hunting zones.
If what you have is a mindset of the artisan who wants to go out and collect everything by yourself and then manufacture it with your own hands, then fair enough, that playstyle has been affected.
Keeping this niche playstyle intact, instead of an attempt at changing the entire ecosystem to a better state in the long term isn’t worth it in my opinion, and CCP probably thought the same.