Iridium

[Ackarion]

The problem is not that people are mining there; if that was the only issue, we wouldn't bother bringing it up here and we'd just continue interdicting transports.

It's the fact that it's IRIDIUM, a rare material that's supposed to be only found in Omicron Delta(which is where the cloud was copied from, I believe).

The Nomad gate was put there for a reason. Kansas is supposed to be an empty system, not a high traffic one, and certainly not a high-profit mining location.

I'm willing to bet that the only reason iridium can be mined there is because someone copied one of the clouds from Delta while making the system, and forgot to remove the iridium dropping.

Welcome to advancement and development. Areas are scouted all the time for new places to mine, welcome to Freelancers fronteer. So there are transports now shipping irid, its part of the mining rp, where there is miners there are transports, its the life line of shipping and mining, soon the pirates will come, (quicker now that this thread has been posted) and commerce trade and battles will ensue. I think this is great, it brings life to a system which has been ignored, and more opportunities for rp to develop.

My suggestion is to rp it. Just telling a miner he cant mine here leave not much for rp value now does it. Your basically telling him to get out. Why dont you offer services as security while he mines, never know when a nomad might show up. Offer security for his trade ship, rp be inventive. Just a simple you cant mine here becuase I dont think you should is not a very friendly way to interact with others in rp. In fact I call that poor rp. Of course, I would jump to. I would not want to deal with poor rp value as such as that.

The ore had been place there for a reason. Become a miner, or merc for security, or a pirate to the transports, just rp with others and have fun.