IMG has in no way Zonerlike reps. They still have pirates to worry about and the Outcasts attack rather regularly in Tau-23. If the Unioners were Corsair-minions finally, they could end up as a pirate against IMG as well.
While I do agree that other mining factions have it significantly harder around southern Sirius - Mollys and Hessians being friendly or neutral to IMG mostly - I must point out, that IMG| as a faction gets hunted by people about as much, if you exclude the hate-fueled stuff that happened or is still happening around Rheinland factions. I will honestly be VERY happy, when DHC and Krüger finally get better chances to do the mining they should be able to do, without getting immediatly slaughtered because the enemy can pop up just right next to them through a jumphole (DHC mostly, guess Krüger rep just got ruined by certain people. Also I'd like to mention that Krüger is at another disadvantage, which is not IMG's fault: GMG in Sigma-13 and no way around them). BMM needs better chances for fleeing from the field in Cambridge, at the moment though they at least got a decent field in Leeds. Don't know about many other fields besides Tau-23, Dublin, Cambridge and Omega-7, but I'm pretty sure Rheinland also has one in each Köln and München...and there are fields in Omega-15, with a Junker base "right next to it".
But heh, let's see what we got, and hope I don't miss anything...
Only the ores interesting for IMG, BMM, DHC and Krüger:
(Al) Aluminium - DHC, Krüger
(Be) Beryllium - IMG, BMM
(Co) Cobalt - IMG, DHC, Krüger
(Cu) Copper - IMG, DHC, Krüger
(D) Diamonds - DHC, Krüger
(Au) Gold - IMG, BMM
(Nb) Niobium - IMG, BMM
(Ag) Silver - IMG, Krüger
(All other ores should not have boni for IMG imo.)
So, I'll just ... off my head ... try to make some suggestions, field changes would have to be made to give the faction the ore they get a bonus for, they also require sellpoints for these ores then:
- Overall: rates could be adjusted a bit, overall it's still how I'd set it. Sellpoints need to be available as well though.
- Obviously BMM needs one more ore. I'd suggest Copper or Cobalt ore, since they sell decently far away. Cobalt ore is available in Omega-3 as well, and as far as I know BMM gets a bonus on it already. Giving them both and then switching the boni around a bit could work as well, but they need fields for them. Newcastle maybe? Manchester? Copper would be better imo, since IMG already mines Cobalt, but it really depends on how you want to see it. Just saying that it shouldn't be another IMG-accessable field.
- Cobalt & Copper for DHC and Krüger: one gets a bit more of this, the other more of that. Question is, who wants what? Also, where to put their fields. Omega-7 and ... ?
- Both DHC and Krüger have fields for Aluminium. Both should get the same bonus. Both should keep fields in .87.
- Diamonds, obviously DHC's big money. But also accessed by Krüger to some degree. Fields? I hope Omega-11 becomes more than just a slaughterhouse for miners and some field a bit off the side for Krüger gets in after Omega-15 vanishes. Maybe in München after that "unexplainable" desaster strikes?
- Gold and Niobium should be pretty much set. One is BMM's big stuff, the other IMG's.
- Silver, now, I think this should be Krüger's big money.
- Overall some fields will change in .87, Omega-15 gone for example. I hope the Rheinland mining factions get new fields for the lost ones. This time with a bit better survival odds, not with a Junker base right next door.
- Also hope for BMM to get a bit more and better survival odds. Gold, being only available in Dublin pretty much, is quite dangerous to mine. Maybe the price should be adjusted accordingly?
There are many factors involved overall though...the big questions regarding who gets what is also "where are the fields" and "where are the sellpoints". A big focus has to lie on giving each mining factions good alternatives, and, most importantly, not overly dangerous fields to mine in. A tagged DHC mining in Omega-7, right next to a jumphole, or in Omega-11, ways away from the next safe-place and next to the guard system of their biggest enemy, is just suicidal.
If the situation between GMG and Krüger wasn't that "hardcoded", there'd also be the possbility of Krüger mining H3 in Sigma-13. But that's another topic.
EDIT: Btw, I think it makes more sense for Krüger to mine Copper, while DHC rather mines Cobalt, because Cobalt has more people mining it AND it is available in Omega-3 to them, while Copper is available to fewer people.
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