Economy in 5.2+

[TonyB]

@Enko

Could you explain to our gamers why it was "necessary" to change the ore extraction ?
I only had bad comments about this.

Times change, the insane mark of the old mining system was never intended to be ran for mining as it is on discovery, it was literally an activity to fill up freighters. This system would get slammed if it was released in games today.

Old mining causes problems with so many people being put off mining because of how RSI inducing it is, some people will just flat out be unable to do it for very long. There is a rather large population of people who enjoy it and the gameplay variance it has, coupled with that our target is to have people spending longer times mining rather than hauling it home and the prospect of making longer mining times on old mining is horrid.

Only really a few people hate it and don't want to touch it, but luckily there are still plenty of old mining bits around.

Indeed, but not gold and platinum. Old school miners see it as necessary to provide them with the resources to continue in the game. Not a lot of guys like the mining for the purpose of mining, only to advance in the game.