Predator - Prey Relationship: Miners / Pirates

[Blodo]

Niobium run passes: Outcasts in T23 (8K from Cali base on the way to the jumphole). 3 Kusari core systems in which Hogosha have free reign. Sigma 13 which can have junkers, dragons, GC, Outcasts and Corsairs. Finally Frankfurt which is reasonably safe as long as Rorry ain't there;)I've never been pirated in New Berlin so I assume few people try that.

Diamond run passes: Omega 11 with a heavy Hessian presence. Stuttgart with as much a single lane bottleneck as Kyushu, so no difference there. Rest of the route is identical to the niobium run, so I'm not sure why you deeming it a whole lot safer... it about evens out. Outcasts for Hessians, basically. So a price roughly equal to the silver and Niobium run makes sense.

[Edit] And I know what you're going to say about the radiation - but the faster fill balances that out. Repair costs in respect to commodity value mined shouldn't even need to be mentioned. I will grant you that it'd make sense for Solarius to keep spare mining lasers on-hand, if you feel they should be added there, that can be done.

Except Daumann also has to contend with Corsairs. And the Outcasts rarely if ever pirate, they prefer sitting around in their huge caps and steamrolling IMG zephyrs or something like that. The situations are not comparable in the slightest, I could make much more money mining in easy peasy Tau-23 than in Omega-11 where you will get steamrolled if not by RHA then by RF then by Sails then by an independent ku ex pirate, possibly in plural.

Dragons are also active in Kusari and especially on the lookout for Daumann ships heading to Narita. And lets not forget, in Tau-23 you don't mine in radiation and about 20k away from a base that is actually used by pirates, because Cali is only a speed dock point for OC capitals running away from IMG bomber/zephyr spam.

Uncut diamonds should get a price buff. The danger is much higher, and Daumann are far more universally hated than IMG is. Think about it, how come the IMG faction + indies are such a large group? Because the IMG are the Zoners of mining, and 4.84 Zoners at that. Daumann has it far harder and they need a better incentive for Omega-11. I know many other people who agree with bumping the uncut diamond price, and I can get them to post in this thread to show their approval for a change like this if necessary.