Mining is screwed

[CzeReptile]

Best thing about all your wonderful suggestion is what - you aint saying ANYTHING constructive.

When mining was ran the old style, fields were full. We used to have 5-10 people mining groups organized to gather cash. T23 was FULL constantly with miners and occasional pirates. NOt a dangerous place.
Note that I play CR most so I actually know, unlike most of you annoying knowitalls, how the situation there is.
Since the nerf nerf and more nerf for mining, it is just yet again very badly profitable business.
T23 is dead cause of the silliness of this "upgrade". But yet again, yell of all you folks, who do not mine just shout crap, overweighs voices of those who actually have miners and mine.

Seriously, get lost will ya?

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[Garrett Jax]

I completely agree with Gheis.

Both mining and trading are completely boring activities if your only goal is to earn credits as fast as you possibly can. These activities are best enjoyed while rp'ing with a group of people. Do you make as many credits? Maybe, maybe not. But does the time pass quicker, when you rp during these tedious jobs?

Absolutely.

I always enjoy the time mining with GMS. Laughs are frequent, credits are good, and time flies by.

I find the more I include rp in my activities, the more enjoyable the activities become.

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[VoluptaBox]

I dare you to spend more time mining and in mining fields than I do.

Edit: of course, referred to Reptile's post.

Also, a side note: have you notice how much the general lolwhuttery has diminished or dispersed, as well as the number of sanction reports?

[Backo]

Find an activity you enjoy to earn your money instead of whining you can't do it as fast as before with the task you found boring. After the mining nerf I finally started to see commodities other then gold ore in ships passing in California. I call that a good thing, you know? And yes, I find both mining and trading to be out of my taste, so I make my money with bounty hunting and pirating, but mostly pirating. Over the course of 20 hours of flight time I've earned maybe 20+ million credits with that char and I don't mind it, even if that won't even buy me a new fully equipped fighter.

tl;dr: Find an activity you enjoy to build your fortune so you'll whine less that it takes too long.

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Republic of the Sword and Sun

[Internity]

I agree as well, the mining system went down the drain, also it is very annoying to find out that your cargo hold gets itself full like magic!

I bet the next step for them now might also be the removal of the ship's tractor beam as is kinda useless right now.

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LNS Ithaca

[Stuart.croll]

Not that this thread is about RP it's supposed to be about mining or the lack thereof, I'll give my opinion about RP.

I don't mind a bit of what I would call incidental RP. Like bumping into either friendlies or hostiles on the lanes or elsewhere. I like a bit of patter as they say and this increases my enjoyment of the game. ( We do all remember that it is a game right? )

I have to draw the line at sitting in groups discussing the virtual doings of none existent characters and organizations. I simply cannot go that far. To be honest I find it a little childish and embarrassing. But hey that's just me. I do not propose bringing in rule changes to sanction people who act as though it's a drama school here.
I simply want to point out that not everyone plays the game the same way.

The point is that the current mining system spoils the way I want to and used to play the game and I doubt that I am the only one who feels that way.

People keep saying I'm just whining but not proposing fixes but that simply is not true. I have said on several occassions before that the price nerf was sufficient which obviously says that I believe this depletion thing is naff and we should return to reliable if slightly reduced "reliable" yields. That would be my proposal.

Would it make everyone happy? Obviously not but that's impossible isn't it?

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[Stuart.croll]

Find an activity you enjoy to earn your money instead of whining you can't do it as fast as before with the task you found boring. After the mining nerf I finally started to see commodities other then gold ore in ships passing in California. I call that a good thing, you know? And yes, I find both mining and trading to be out of my taste, so I make my money with bounty hunting and pirating, but mostly pirating. Over the course of 20 hours of flight time I've earned maybe 20+ million credits with that char and I don't mind it, even if that won't even buy me a new fully equipped fighter.

tl;dr: Find an activity you enjoy to build your fortune so you'll whine less that it takes too long.

I prefer whining to pontificating.

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[Stuart.croll]

I dare you to spend more time mining and in mining fields than I do.

Edit: of course, referred to Reptile's post.

Also, a side note: have you notice how much the general lolwhuttery has diminished or dispersed, as well as the number of sanction reports?

That attitude is like H.S.E. It's like dumming down. Takes no account of common sense and penalises the grown ups as much as the dipsticks.

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[Marburg]

oh my god! I'm gonna state an opinion as a player on the server!

There are more people adding themselves to the playerbase every single day, & because of the larger numbers, things have to change to compensate for that. Things are tried. sometimes they work, sometimes they don't but imho, those who pine away for the old days of how mining used to be simply need to adapt with a constantly growing animal & stop pining for the way things used to be. Those days are over.

LIVE IN THE NOW!!

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[Internity]

oh my god! I'm gonna state an opinion as a player on the server!

There are more people adding themselves to the playerbase every single day, & because of the larger numbers, things have to change to compensate for that. Things are tried. sometimes they work, sometimes they don't but imho, those who pine away for the old days of how mining used to be simply need to adapt with a constantly growing animal & stop pining for the way things used to be. Those days are over.

LIVE IN THE NOW!!

How about bringing back at least the use of the tractor beam for mining?

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LNS Ithaca