Mining in Omicron Gamma

[Syndic]

Please consider expanding the mining areas for artifacts in Omicron Gamma. I love the idea of mining artifacts as a Corsair miner--the ones who supply Crete's wealth--but there are issues...

1. The routes from JH's to planets Crete run pretty much right over your mining path. It's constantly trespassed by traders and fighters and warships going to and fro.
   
   
2. The current mining area is very small.
   
   
3. The mining area spawns BH and Nomad NPCs...with the changes in transport shields, you don't last long in their fire (even if you equip transport turrets) and it seriously cuts the ability to non-stop mine.
   
   
4. Artifacts are for sale so cheaply on Crete that in the time it takes to fill a mining ship you can travel to NY and back. Pretty pointless.
   

So I'm suggesting add a smattering of fields through the system and put CORSAIR spawns in them so you have back-up and cut out the BH/Nomad spawns within them. Either this or drastically increase the mine yields in the current field...by a lot. It just isn't profitable time-wise to be a Corsair miner at present.

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