Mining Changes

[Driculi]

So if these changes take effect this will definitly kill 2 of the most active groups on the discovery server.
On one hand the miners, who are in no doubt a big group that generates RP, like bringing transports or mining vessels to a field, or fill indie-transports.
On the other hand the pirates, who are also a major group that generates RP, like grouping together to pirate these miners.

I can go with the changes of prizes for the mined ores but not with the changes of the system itself.
OK in vanilla freelancer you will only get 1 to 3 pieces of ore out of a rock but in vanilla you dont have 5K transports. Biggest transport there was the Dromedary with 275 cargo.

Here`s some simple math for the Dev team:

Fill a 5000 cargo ship with a droprate of 2 per rock will lead the miner to shot 2500 rocks. Does that ring any bell ? Nobody`s gonna do that.
Even with 2 miners , every one of them has to shot 1250 rocks. An thats for 1 transport, usually you have 3 or 4 in the field at the same time.

Not long ago you where asking yourself why the activity in Disco is low but to me it looks like you really do anything to lower the activity even more.

You will have the bonus from id so the mining speed will not change to much