Mining in Omicron Gamma

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Guess what? Mining is meant to be more efficient with friends. It makes for poor solo work.

Guess why you don't make a ton of money moving them to Crete? So they can still sell them dirt cheap, you need to move them to the hotspots to pull in the real credits.

*grumbles*

I'm not asking for higher prices. I'm not asking for a totally free, uninterrupted spot with no risks and I am not asking for it to less profitable if you do it in a group.

But if you want to be smarmy--look at the history of mining--its individual panners and prospectors going out with the hope of the big score that make it work--and a large number of them never "teamed" with other miners--in fact they often killed one another.

If you mean big corporations do better at mass mining, sure but did you know most big corporate mines are discovered by local miners (aside from predicable ore deposits).

Artifacts are not ore and I imagine the "get rich quick" temptation is strong for impoverished Corsairs looking for a way up and not "connected" to wealthy families. Finding artifacts would be a very suitable pastime for a lone miner--just like treasure ship hunters don't usually pass out their search areas to other hunters.

Again--not asking to "be made rich"--am saying its silly to have Corsair mining be so slow and unproductive. If I can make ten trips buying and selling artifacts in the same time it takes to mine one full load there isn't much incentive. Miners are also not traders. Their aim isn't to mine then haul it across the void to a far land. They work their field, sell and get right back. I didn't create a miner to run a trade route and its a bit silly to make more in bounty hunter and nomad npc drops from your kills defending yourself than you do in actual mined commodities.

Last, if you go back and read the old posts on mining, a great number of those who wanted mining improvements planned on it being a solitary job.

So saying, "mining is better in a group--too bad if you don't" is like saying, "Well unless you develop relationships here and play on a schedule when others are on and willing to play with you then you are out of luck" isn't really helpful or sporting.

The artifacts sell low compared to Junker or IMG prime spots (as well as some others). And the NPC spawns existed as is back in the heavier transport shield days. There was no thought given to the impact of a Corsair miner's rp with the weaker shields and buffed npcs and I just mentioned it.

The tongue clicking finger wagging posts contribute nothing.

My Corsair miner has been converted to an IMG miner--I might as well make cash off the ship investment. RP built around the Corsair is disposed of but hey, I can mindlessly mine with the rest of the herd there. Its great to see the improvements to mining and I was already aware of the best spots but I had wanted to run a Corsair as an RP direction. Because I play on a limited schedule, I can't "team" and I can't raise cash if all I do is mine at a loss.

If you want to really be critical, talk about how Corsairs in the system should jealously protect Corsair miners there as its their lifeblood. It should be a priority and even a partial justification of the Corsair fleet there. There should be a gaggle of Corsair miners just as their are IMG ones. Gee--I wonder why there isn't? I guess as an alternative I could mine in a gunboat.

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