Maybe…? 
New MER was just published.
We’ll have to see if FC is happy with this, how the sandbox is going to react.
It seems that this is exactly the crux of @Vynn_Gravonere’s complaint. The value of mining coincides very nicely with all the balance changes. It is very unlikely, that changes in mineral prices are driven by botting.
So, the problem I have is, that they don’t consider the sandbox as a whole and use botting as the sole factor here, essentially as a red herring. It is very hard to have a sane discussion on botting. Especially as botting is this unquantified bogeyman.
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