Mining System

[Omi]

Though I couldn't comment on it at the time, I don't remember this thread ever meeting with a valid, well-reasoned response to all the criticism contained within from our resident mining dev. In my personal opinion, that's indicative of one (or both) of two danger signs: either @"LordVipex" doesn't feel like those outraged by the changes therein are worth his time to bother justifying his changes to, or he simply doesn't have anything worth the time it takes to type to back up his changes.

I'm no expert when it comes to mining, but I trust the judgement of people who mine extensively (such as @Jack_Henderson, @Karst and several others) when they make complaint after complaint, repeatedly stating their opinion that the changes introduced are massively flawed and require urgent and extensive reworking and/or further attention to bring them back in line. Something like this slipping through the net is, frankly, inexcusable, and shows both an utter lack of quality control related to the update and a lackadaisical, lazy approach towards fixing this and any other outstanding issues.

Even I have noticed problems with mining from my own limited Discovery worldview - the inexplicable disappearance of Gold Ore from the GMS ID (to the best of my knowledge) being the main one I would highlight. I can only imagine the contents of whatever mega dossier @Karst is compiling might have. Frankly, I expect it to be quite damning.

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