Economy in 5.2+

[St.Denis]

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.

"Different strokes for different folks" - (Each to their own).

Not everyone finds the old system of mining boring. Same as not everyone finds trading boring.
As for working as a Team (new system), there are people who mine in Teams under the old system. Our Bases are open for people to fill them if they so want to, we regularly fill them, as a Team, and the refined materials are always available for people to haul, if they prefer to do that.

If the people I play with aren't around, then I am (as they are) quite happy to get the Rock Badger out and fly back and forth filling the Bases.

I have a feeling it is only a matter of time before all mining fields will be changed to the new system. Having to use BC weapons to do your mining for you, seems a bit weird and I can't understand why we don't just have Mining Arrays (now there is a novelty) to do the job.
Hitting asteroids with big explosives would make the rocks to 'zip off' in all directions at mach 73 instead of just sitting right where they were hit.

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