I didn't want to curbstomp this conversation too early. But I wanted to put some speculation to rest.
The new mining system is being tested. It does not include mining in Liberty.
There will never again be any kind of standard mining in Liberty.
The irridium in Kansas was Cannon's move. I myself am still on the fence about it. It seems like a kind of good move kind of bad move. But then most all of my ideas are bad moves, so there you have it.
One bad move in particular was platinum mining in Penn, and silver. Or anything else that clustered people in the grief whole that is Liberty. Platinum doesn't exist for a very good reason, one which we shan't be repeating.
One of the goals of the mining system was to draw people out of Liberty to populate key systems which otherwise served, at best, as transitory routes. While the success in places such as Dublin are somewhat nebulous... Still not sure how the Mollies starved out despite the meal being presented to them on a silver platter...
Anywho. Yeah. Neither Liberty nor any of her fringe worlds will be seeing rocks to shoot anytime soon. This is intentional and the changes are already in place. I don't intend to deviate from that.
Sucks. Tremont was a beautiful place to mine. Shame it's not located elsewhere.
Now everyone go bust rocks in the Omegas. That means you DSE. Man up and go pirate Kruger.
' Wrote:I just finished debugging the Episode 14 commodity file for the third time (only took 8 hours this time), and decided to compare the finished product (more or less) with previous versions.
(I did not subtract the 2 lines of code for each base in the file that are not prices, so these are rough figures).
4.84 : 6,251 prices
4.85 : 8,338 prices (+ 2,087, or + 33%)
4.86 : 15,718 prices (+ 7,380 over 4.85, or + 88%)
The changes in prices from 4.85 to 4.86 will be basically proportional to the difference between 4.84 to 4.85.
But you really ought to download and examine 4.84 if you want to fully understand that. Three excellent comparisons are the best legal routes for MOX, super alloys, and superconductors in 4.84 & 4.85.
I suggest that those of you who like to plan trade routes install and become familiar with Personal Brain, if your computer can handle it. You can continue to use the free version when the trial period expires (that's all I've had for the past 2 years and I love it). I will be making a Brain file available for download when Episode 14 is released that may greatly enhance your trade route planning. There will also be a html version available, but I think that's even more unwieldy than the program itself. Plus, the program will allow you to edit, which the html version will not allow. http://www.thebrain.com/
If I die without ever seeing a 6 digit decimal again, I'll have no regrets.