Mining Prices Overhaul

[jammi]

The problem that you have when you use the quickest instead of the most realistic route, is that routes that are calculated to go through jumpholes are objectively worse compared to others if you want to use the lane route. This will only result in focusing activity on certain mining factions with the 'most profitable' route (something that should be avoided in a balance) while other regions that would benefit from these additional traders/miners are going to lose activity because less indies are going to use the route and thus the faction.

Even taking this into consideration, you're looking at a difference of a few minutes and potentially 100 or so c/s. While that might be a draw for some people, it's not enough to fundamentally break the system which is... basically the status quo we have right now.

The same balancing principles that regulate the standard economy should be going into ore numbers as well, because at the moment the prices are just an entirely arbitrary crap-shoot.

Obviously we want the route times we're listing to be as accurate as humanly possible though, so we are double checking all the results at the moment.