Mining in Omicron Gamma

[Dusty Lens]

To Syndic: Read my reply to you again, in post 6. I replied to your message with thought and consideration and assured you that we would look into the issue. You replied with an overly hostile tone griping that your ideal style of solo running was being hampered by our oversight.

You flipped the pathos switch long before I even considered that monstrous engine might need to be gassed up. So leggo my eggo.

(Furthermore, good day sir.)

Is there now or will there be blood diamond mining there? That'd be neat, but I haven't actually gotten to check the current situation. You know, with the doom and pain making it more worthwhile to check elsewhere (though it is pretty).

Also, if the IMG and Hessians do business, how come no IMG bases will buy their diamonds? I mean, even the Xenos do! Belfast buys them, perhaps South Shields could, too? You know, for their various drills and stuff needed to break down things to refine or whatever they actually do.

Dusty, fix everything! D:

There aren't any plans for Blood Diamonds at the moment, both because they're supposedly pulled from a planetary body rather than the belt (though the hue of the diamonds pulled would be determined by impurities etc so, really, if we wanted to be insane we could create a whole array of stones with coloration from yellow to super rare blue etc...) But that would be in violation of the "keep it simple" policy currently in place.

I'll drop the Omega 11 plan on y'all to get some feedback, really.

Now, most of the mining systems being placed have a couple of factors that contribute to the overall health of the drops. Such as proximity to a dockable station, local commodity tables and an element of inherit risk.

Those systems, such as the Gold fields of Dublin which all have bases sitting right in them or right next to them, are easily corrected by leaving the fields with bases somewhat mundane and adding new fields further abroad which will supply the substantial gains.

Omega 11, obviously, has some issues in that the field location is vital to the overall layout of the system.

I hemmed and hawwed and, over moving Solaris station, patrol paths, dozens of bouys etc the ultimate idea was to leave the belt itself as it is, with rather sad drops, and add a number of independent mining zones within the belt.

So you have mining zone ini 1, which is the belt as a whole.
Then you have 5 more ini files, for example, adding additional pocket mining zones with increasingly potent gains the further you travel from Solaris station, which are viewable on the mining map.

While it would be nice to make the ring as a whole viable, unfortunately the bulk of the mining would, of course, take place 3k away from Solaris station rather than further abroad in that case, which would almost entirely eliminate any non environmental risk factors. Not much fun to be a Hessian raiding party when your quarry is munching on resources literally on the front steps of his rabbit hole.

NOW, as to the IMG and the Hessians. That would be something to discuss with Xoria, who is the mastermind of the commodity system and all of its intricate ebbs and flows. I do not have a clue.

That being said, good luck, I've been trying to get ahold of him for weeks now.