Thank you for comparison Syrus, although I'm lost now, as various people tell me different numbers when it comes to bonuses. It doesn't matter that much though.
I wanted to say method of comparing mining factions by using summarized value of their mining bonuses is wrong way of doing so, as for example argument "Daumann has two higher bonus to diamonds than hessians" is flawed by fact in gameplay it means difference between 30 seconds or one minute of mining, so it has no impact on gameplay at all, but hessians have own ships, tougher than CTE stuff usually used by house corporations and can attack lawful miners with capital ships. Same goes for IMG vs. house miners issue.
@ Aet
It's good to hear Hydrocarbons finally become ore.
If Kruger gets bonus to aluminium, it'll only hurt both Kruger and DHC, as it'll split already small playerbase even more. What I suggest for Kruger is giving it its own unique ore in Koeln, which only Kruger can mine. That way it benefits that faction and doesn't split playerbase between Kruger and DHC.
Similar problem is with Omega-7, all factions can mine every ore there (except DHC which hasn't bonus to silver and field with it, although it should, according to the rumors, but nevermind), what in result causes people play as IMG only because it has exactly/almost same bonuses to Copper/Cobalt/Silver as Daumann and Kruger, but has way better diplomacy and the toughest Rheinland pirate group, hessians, don't harass Guild. Things would stay as they are in Omega-7 or it either would go "IMG mines ore A only, DHC mines ore B only and Kruger mines ore C only" way, so every faction could have something "own". Such solution solves problem with factions' diplomacy being under or overpowered - even if IMG diplomacy is overpowered, people need to play as DHC or Kruger to mine ores B and C.
However it all is to be discussed later, as the most important thing now will be getting .87 released and fixing bugs.
