They like hisec mining, missioning, or industry, or *gasp* simply the challenge of market PVP!

You want to penalize those who don't like to play 'your' game the same way you do? Tough. They're not doing it wrong, maybe you're not either – you just enjoy different aspects of the Eve universe.

Not to mention, how many of those despicable hisec carebears are 0.0 alts that let me buy my first carrier? I'm guessing that you'd be surprised at the faces and names associated with those lazy, risk-averse bears who are too cowardly to come into lowsec just so you can get your jollies ganking their billion-isk mission ship that pays for their 0.0 PVP ships.

1# CynoJammers in lowsec … that will mess with the jumpbridges aka lifelines highsec –> nullsec i doubt any nullsec powerblock will allow a cynojammer in there bridge system ….

2# Refinement … i don't see it as a problem there is NO reason what so ever to transport ore and refine it in lowsec unless the ratio is almost 50% and if they cut it 50% in highsec. and with 50% ppl will go over to build in pos:es and refine in pos:es with higher numbers you just raise the price of all the minerals. transporting ore –> lowsec lets say i live 2 jumps out from a lowsec system with a station if i jump there with 6x runs with ore there is a good chance i lose my freighter for 1.3B
the risk reward ratio isn't worth it. It will only spike the mineral prices and spike the ship/module prices….. not fix the problem.

3# FIX the [censored word] POS:es before even starting to fiddle with the stations.
basicly if you make so that everyone is using there POS as stations you can remove 90% of the facilities in game. this would also fix the nullsec building problem.

but hey thats just me thinking. …..

Option 1: move six freighters of ore (plus some high-end minerals) to lowsec in order to refine without loss and get cheaper manufacturing lines, then move full freighter of ships/modules/ammo back to highsec. Of course gate and undock campers would like to take a shot at you.

Option 2: jack up prices to compensate for lowered refining rate (might be negated by refining skills and implants, in this case nerf is ineffective) and increased fees. Afk hauling and convenient routes aren't going anywhere.

I don't think that any significant number of proper highsec industrialists will want to deal with option 1 on daily basis, and option 2 looks quite viable after those hundreds of Retrievers sold at 25mil (400% old cost, 120% new cost) – players proven to be willing to absorb price hikes when it comes to convenience. That means nerf won't hit it's intended target, just add some inflationary pressure to economy.

…Then again, common sense and doubts didn't prevent CCP from stepping on their own (and/or ours as well) dicks before.

It would be a relativly simple fix, fast and it seems to be in the general theme of the game development. you would of course need to remove standing gain from null rats, but that would just make lowsec even more useful, as you would be grinding standing there if you want to switch to carebearing/ganking.

Buff low-sec – yes, nerf high-sec – hell no.