Mining bonuses!

[endlessvoid]

I've been trying out mining, now that the laser and tag bonus are incorporated, but I had a few issues.

The main problem is that you want to maintain neutrality while mining. Pirates will rarely scan you up before picking up a fight with a lawful patrol. What I mean with this is that the 15% yield bonus on having a non-Independent Miner ID is not worth it... not when you're mining up Diamonds, Gold or another highly valuable item.

Now, these ones usually drop between 1-5, depending on the asteroid field, until you get a mining ship which makes the difference - if you sum up, 80% from the ship and 20% from the laser should make it 100% - this is the other problem, the 15% bonus is useless, because you would get anyways 2-6.

I do understand that I'm not the only one suffering from this problem (I'm not in the official RP server as the latency is somewhat high, I can't engage on fights properly), but I'll be bold and propose the following:

1. 1) The Mining Ship provides an 80% yield bonus.
>> Let's change this to 300%. I know it's a bit high, but we have a big ship with 2,750 cargo. When you're new to mining the income comes fast but the duty of mining becomes tedious as you move on a bigger ship.
2. 1.5) The ALG mover/CSV/Collector yield 20%.
>> Let's change this to 100% for the reasons stated above.
3. 2) The Mining Laser yields an additional 20%.
>> Let's change this to 100%. We're sacrificing defense for work time, this should be part of these big numbers.
4. 3) The proper ID and TAG provide 15% each.
>> I'd say, let's keep it to 100% for Independent Miner's ID, and 500% for the other tags. Here's why: The only reason why would you lose your Independent Miner's ID tag is to get a bigger ship, which involves siding up with an organization, thus losing your neutrality. Besides this risk, you will need to expend more time mining up with 3,600+ cargo space.

I hope this helps someone, and please refrain to use any rude words, I'm just explaining the problems concerning mining and suggestions of what could be a nice change. If you feel the same way about it, please comment! Thanks:)

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