Searching through 0.3 secs in Caldari space and coming up empty. Just went through 20 belts in a single system - not one single rock. Several systems with fewer belts, same deal. Just nothing there.
So what’s the point of having asteroid fields if there are no asteroids?
Yah ever since scarcity started LS belts were really just butchered and never came back since. The NPC mining belts gobble the belts up due to how thin they are. Instead CCP went with ore anoms for LS mining. In some of the largest ore anoms depending on the ore there were 1bil+!
(NPC mining fleets don’t mine ore anoms)
I think the anom mining is ok in my book. Feels strange though I wish CCP did do something more with LS asteroid belts.
I am not entirely sure that is true. I have seen NPC mining fleets in crockite and dark ochre anoms regularly, i think it is the cosmic sigs you are talking about, like gas sites.