The Ore mining review.

[Karst]

Okay, going to focus on ALG here mainly since there'd be too much to say otherwise....

The higher bonus for Premium Scrap - both higher than previously, and higher than Junkers' bonus instead of lower, as before - certainly sounds nice.
However, it's pretty much impossible to judge what effect this will have without knowing the new import locations, assuming they've changed.

If they haven't, mining premium scrap as ALG will be just as pointless as it is now due to vastly higher profits at unlawful selling points that are no further away than the best sell point we have access to.

From an RP perspective, I think it makes sense for ALG to be better at collecting premium scrap, being a corporation with access to modern, high-tech equipment, and Junkers being better at day-to-day "regular" scrapping.
But since regular scrapping is quite nice for us now and Premium Scrap really isn't - kind of hard to judge without knowing changes to sell points. I know this probably won't be the case, but just assuming regular scrap buyers and fields will remain the same, the drop from 5 to 2 will make it nonviable.

Toxic Waste for ALG and EFL sounds interesting, but again can't say much here without knowing the details of prices and locations.
Assuming the price and location stay the same, the mining bonus could be 1 000 000 - even with instantaneous filling it still wouldn't be worth mining. Or trading, for that matter.

Otherwise, I think the bonuses are a bit too spread out. I'd like to see mining be more streamlined with only 3 commodities per faction. A few good choices are just better for streamlining activity than a few good choices and a few bad choices.
As a miner of a non-ALG faction, I don't see why I'd ever mine at 2.00 when I have three ores that mine faster. Three should cover Sirius pretty adequately for most factions. Four should be the absolute maximum in my opinion.

But overall, sounds interesting.

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