5.2.1 - patch notes

[Synts]

Okay, by some miracle it's doable, but time? Previously, one miner could fill a 5-ker in 3-5 minutes, in your version- a 5-ker has to fly 100 k from the mining zone to the base and back, if you mean Bretonia base, it's like 15-20 min? And with the new system you can only fill 1.5 ships in that time? I have understood that you praise here that this new system is faster and better? And not to mention that you have to watch all the time so that you don't break the jettisoned ore. Mining shouldn't be a more painful activity than it was before, at least one miner with the old system could fill a barge in 25-30 minutes. Now even 5-k can't be completed in that time. With the old system you needed 2 miners and four 5-k and in about an hour you had 150 k ore in the base, now you only need a hegemon and a lot of time.

I would say we could fill up a trader with just a hegemon within 3-5 minutes. I also wouldn't say you have to watch that you don't break the ore. You tractor it, and then drop it when the transport says it's near, then tractor what left back up, and carry on. It's a 3 second interruption in your work. We gathered 65k ore with 3 players in less than an hour last time. We sell to a POB ~40k away.

We also filled a barge in about 8 minutes with 3 players (miner drops ore -> trader picks up -> trader delivers to barge outside of field)

I would honestly invite you to our next mining session just to see how we do it, because I really don't agree with the numbers implied. Happy to arrange a time with you to prove it. Or would you like a video? I'm not praising one or the other, but I just don't agree with the conclusion you've made so I was curious why your experience is so significantly different from mine.

I'd be happy to come and see what this new mining looks like, as I've completely given up on it at the moment.

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I am not a native English Speaker, so i make grammar errors.
But it annoys me when people make silly comments about that... especially brits who for the most part can't speak their own language let alone anyone elses!