[Wodin]

Even better: it's not the end of high-sec ice mining, so you're not going to see prices go up. They're just pulling the ice fields from heavily trafficed hub systems like Jita.

They honestly serve a very useful purpose in the economy - cheap low-ends like trit and pyerite make battleship construction viable, and the cheap isotopes makes it a lot simpler to run POSes(or run non-regional racial POSes). But goddamn if they aren't annoying, especially when the bot locks your can.