Mining System

[Vito]

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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Or remove mining all together. Credits are made too easy, people don't care about losing their cargo anymore since in less then 5 minutes they get it back. Not to mention some routes are fairly short and very profitable.

In the old days the lanes were full of traders hauling diverse cargo and giving pirates a chance at RP cargo piracy. Now its 95% ore and its really boring, both from a trader's and a pirate's point of view.

Edit: Also, do you guys remember when the trading factions were trading InRP cargo, goods that reflected their affiliation and origins? I would love to have that back instead of seeing ore all over the place

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