Further, because of the mineral basket, macro-miners stand to improve the ISK/hour potential of active mining. Macro-miners are mostly in Empire space, so they put downward pressure on the low end minerals available in high sec belts. Due to the mineral basket, this props up the prices of Zydrine and Megacyte, the real money-earners in the Arkanor/Bistot/Crokite ‘roids that serious miners target, whether in 0.0, WH, or anomalies. While macro-mining may make newbie mining in Empire belts somewhat less lucrative, it improves the income of the veteran miner.

Think of the consequences of low mineral prices though…

Real miners, instead of being able to sell Tritanium at 5.2 ISK, are forced to drop their prices down to 2.6 ISK in order to get anything at all from their efforts. Mining, as an endeavour and profession, is undercut, becomes undervalued, and unattractive.

Sure, socially inept spotty teenagers with self-esteem issues are able to suicide gank unarmed mining ships because mineral prices are so low that they can afford to build a new ship every time they go out, but real miners can barely make enough to keep their ships operational, let alone get ahead. Yah, well done… /slowclap

“…as long as I am not hurting you, then really, why should they care?” CCP should care and eliminate macro-miner because it destroys the profitability and viability of a mining career to real, human players. EvE is not, never has been, and never will be, a game 100% focused on pewpewpew - if it was, there would be no point in coding an economy into the game, or politics, or research and development, or crafting…

Macro-mining denies real human players the opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in mining and that is the only reason needed to hunt down the scum that do it and terminate their accounts.