Quote:You see here is the problem. Why do you think the devs have not placed the mining field outside Graves Station in Dublin? Why they placed them in a fair distance from a NPC base?
The reason is because mining operations are meant to be pirateable. When that is no longer possible or becomes extremely difficult, that is affecting gameplay balance.
Both of you have not made a good argument as to why your base needs to be inside the mining field.
As mentioned above, the fact that pirates/hostiles are denied the opportunity to disrupt a mining operation, then that is harmful for the server gameplay. The original devs who created the mining feature in the first place had a similar thought in mind too.
You are only seeing it from one aspect of Gameplay of 'I can't pirate near a Base'. Others have said that it is can be achieved. Not all Bases have Weapon Platforms and therefore this must make it more easily achievable. I don't understand this fixation with pirating Miners as they are at the low end of the big chain. The Haulers are where the money is. No Miners, no Haulers with holds of full of Ore.
As for Graves, if you are a patient person, you can mine Gold Ore whilst sat at Graves and never leave the safety of the quick dock (try it some time).
I did try and explain earlier that not everybody docks as soon as they 'see' a pirate. But that doesn't seem to be acceptable either, in your eyes, because they are making themselves a 'victim'. I have tried to suggest that Pirates have/can successfully pirate the Miners, but this isn't good enough for you.
As for the 'Original Devs', I am sure POBs weren't around when they made mining achievable. So it is a bit of a moot point.
There are lots of aspects of this Game that isn't balanced and really seems illogical. One being that you can be sat above/next to a NPC Base and a Pirate will turn up avoid the gun fire and sit on the Base where he can't be shot and the proceed to try and pirate you. Is this fair to Server Gameplay? Is it logical?
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