if your account was inactive you should have got 15 free days added to your account with the terra incognita patch which would still have a few days left on it.  why not give it a try?

my miner has noticed a nice lowering in the time it takes to get a sequer of stuff with the base mineral per cycle mined increase although with the regen nerf some spots are empty and hit hard.  i haven't personally scanned the new islands for stuff but i have seen a far number of rivelers and whatnot on hershfield and tellesis.

of course industrial characters are welcome in all corps, including mine (shameless plug) so if you're interested in coming back and want beta access in a corp with a strong industrial base send a PM to Crepitus in game and i can give you details about AXE

I can't speak from an Indy side of the game, but I too only played for a couple of months and then I left and just came back a few weeks ago.. and I'm glad I did, I've been having a lot of fun.

Definitely worth returning to game mining has got quite a boost with 50% extra yield per cycle. 6 new island 3 of them alpha to mine at your hearts content.

Join the fray, still more to come, and Devs seems to be listening to the community.

i logged in last night and the changes are definitely worth it for miners. i can fill my riveler on 3 yellow stacks, pretty cool.

now i just need to find someone to make me a lithus