The following idea/suggestion/proposal is quite radical and WILL trigger lots of people. It needs to be addressed and has been thought about quite a bit. Read at your own warning and slowly with no haste. It is recommended to take two sandwiches before replying to this thread. Viewer discretion is advised.
Ores are a high price because it requires team effort to get. The money then has to be split between the miner and the trader. With the high total profit there is then a good individual profit as well.
Mining is less team-based at the moment. A miner can be the same guy that trades with a transport with little effort required is a base is supplied. There are therefor less miners out in space as the miner will log on for a good hour or so and mine enough for enough ores to last for a long period of time. The lack of miners that are stationary targets makes less targets for pirates to catch.
It is also much more easier for a transport to get access to 3-4 different bases that sell ores and do a whole circle of trading just ores to make HIGH profit. This can be done on ANY ID as long as it has good relations with the bases it lands on. Other commodities suffer from this and become inferior as the ore commodity becomes to the trader a non-team commodity.
Lets face it. It isnt enough that PoBs cannot be next to a mining spot. Ores will still be sold on the base with whatever price the owner gives, allowing the possibility of large gains in profit if the miner sacrifices his pay.
Positives:
-More frequent mining in space. Miners to be called more frequently to mine for others.
-More evident teamwork between the miner and trader.
-Other commodities a possibility when no miners are around.
-Piracy on stationary miners = interaction and RP.
Negatives:
-Mining factions that stock-pile ores on bases will become effected and will need to re-work their methods of mining. This can be done as easy as mining for yourself as well as for others and then coming back with a transport to getting your fill.
-Economy of buying/selling ores on PoBs will be lost. (debatable if this is bad or good)
-No more buying ores at whatever price you want which could be a good RP thing.
-Will make some PoBs useless as they are created for the purpose of collecting ores. There will need to be other ideas for the bases to continue.
-Others... (I'm sure people in replies will think of something )
Now that you have read it: relax.
Take 2 mins.
Lets begin a civilized discussion.
Would this be a good idea? Moving towards mining that was before the introduction of PoBs?
Have PoBs helped or no?
(and before anyone says anything. Yes. I have been involved with storing ores on PoBs. Call me a hypocrite if you want . )
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