I would honestly think that having a ship in every faction would make you as impartial as possible, seeing as how you could relate to everyone.
I still believe solo mining should be viable (I mean hey, most of my mining is done solo!). Heck, if you really wanted, you could go through the blood, sweat and tears necessary to build your own PoB, maintain it, mine all the commodities you need to construct Codenames, then keep them for yourself or sell them to the highest bidder. That being said, it would be easier to mine with a friend, or a group of friends, especially if you wander into a pvp-contested system. When mining was originally made profitable, there was no such thing as PoBs, so unless you had a Hegemon, you had to have at least one other person with you to mine effectively.
I don't think we're trying to make it harder for people to solo mine. We just want to introduce new incentives for people to log in and team up, creating dynamic groups of mining, scouting and defensive ships to get their hands on highly profitable/highly risky/highly rewarding commodities and items.
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