Mining System

[sindroms]

My biggest beef with the mining system is the approach itself.




I remember back in 85 when ore still dropped, it meant that you could make huge ore clouds with small ships and PM random people ingame to try and sell your wares - it would also allow pirates to come to your pile of 50k ore floating around and point their CDs at it - gief monies.


It was fun. It was dynamic.


My wholehearted suggestion would be to make ore droppable again, but instead increase the drops per rock, but decrease the chance significantly. This would solve the problem with server load. Meaning you can get one drop of , say, 1k ore after shooting Y rocks. That and remove the ability to mine for your own transport. Since returning to the old mining system would seem like a step back, please at least make it so that solo mining is impossible. That you MUST interact with players in order to get the best profit. That also means to make ore unplacable on POBs.

This, however, might be too radical of a change and the later part could cause huge problems with people who made POBs just to store ore.

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