(01-08-2016, 10:30 AM)sindroms Wrote: I would like to see ores be split in two groups. One are generic materials, ai, Helium, Scrap Metal, etc which are mined without the need of any specialized equipment. These ores would be fast to mine, but relatively cheap to sell and the destination should be in the same house/area.
Then we have specialized ores, which are the others: Big profit, relatively long flight time and the changes to the current mining system being:
Any transport/freighter loses its ability to mine.
Ore can be mined only by selecting a transport with a mining LF.
Mining speed is slow, but balanced out by huge profit.
Ore should not be placable on POBs.
Speed should be made that it would not be possible to easily fill a 5ker with one person.
This would also encourage the use of freighers and smaller, agiler transports due to the large amount of money being hauled. This can also mean that mining operations are time consuming and would result that people hire others to defend them.
If possible, the ore drops should not be possible until at least 4 people are in a group together and doing something.
Just 2 random flaws that came to my mind reading this ...
You are on purpose want to remove the ability to mine from people who :
A.) Have little time ( max 1 hour ) to play but want to mine
B.) Are in a time zone when there are not 70 people online to have someone to mine with.
I see what you are trying to get out of the story, but this is not a game where thousands of people play at the same time, so that limits what should be added and what not.
