This thread is not about the ability to solo mine. Indeed, mining should not be possible to do solo or at the very least should not be more profitable than smuggling or regular trading because these are the activities which are more streamlined to be done solo.
This sort of falls into an issue I talked about here but it seems that the homogesniation is touching even more factions than just the Omicrons. Again, this is something that should be avoided.
This calls for a rather major system rework to go along with a mining revamp. Theta should be made an activity hub again and most of the mining fields, especially those which supply commodities entirely irrelevant to any lore whatsoever.
Quote:Additionally the lore value of each of those commodities varies wildly. Most "research" commodities (Artifacts, Xeno Relics, Cryo Organisms, Azurite Gas) have zero sustainable lore value because once something has been researched, it's rarely further required, especially when it has no practical value. (Like, Iridium Ore has quite a bit of lore value as there might be many factions who need it to construct new ships for instance. On the contrary, few factions would need a reliable source of mass Xeno Relics for anything.)
