Mining and communism

[Bootsiuv]

People are playing this game to have fun, mining is hardly a part of having fun, since most people do it to grind for a ship they can have fun with. Thus, mining will never get more social, it will simply get less people to live out their will to have fun, which would be the point of being here, simply because laziness is even more tempting when you're playing a game.

If people were to mine to have fun, you wouldn't need all these tweaks to get people to work together.

In other news, I agree with the OP.

(... and communism also is bad:)))

I endorse the idea of group mining, and feel that solo mining was too profitable before.

That being said, the nerf on the hegemon was too great IMO. A simple price adjustment would have been adequate.

I mine during low pop hours, when there is no interaction to be had, so all I do now is fill up my trader (the legal way, not multiboxing), and carry the load to its destination.

It takes me an additional 20 minutes or so, but I also carry 4800 gold ore now as opposed to 2700, so the entire idea behind the concept is flawed IMO, with all due respect to aeterneus.

I honestly miss the "Dublin Era". Yes, there were many lulz and lots of wuts, but the overall feeling was a vibrant economic system filled with lawfuls and unlawfuls alike. How often did I use to jump into Magellan from Leeds wondering what I was going to find on the other side. Now, I'm assured no one will EVER be there to spice up my run. If they wanted to increase player interaction with the changes, I think they've failed in that respect.

Make Hege 1700 if you feel it was too strong (and it was IMO), but don't force me to find someone to mine with when there are 70 people on the server.

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