Mining

[Dusty Lens]

Like I said, bornholme depot buys scrap metal for 500 credits per unit. The scrap cans around bornholme provide, with mining lasers and a junker ID/IFF, around 10-20 units of scrap each. If I shoot one can every 5 seconds, which is a fairly slow rate for mining, i'd be making roughly 1000-1500 credits per second, give or take a few for time spent docking and such.

Make more areas like bornholme and we'd be good.

Bonrholme is somewhat broken, on account of the base being within the mining area. This is to be corrected.

The manner by which I define it being broken is due to the he risk to profit ratio being off. Comparable to Ouray buying silver at 500 credits per... The rocks are floating right outside the bast.

Mining is a group activity simply because a transport can continuously ferry harvested materials in a trade circut whilst the mining vessels remain on scene to continue producing resources for the next loop. Variations of that system are possible, yet vary in efficiency. One may mine on one's own, however the tradeoff is that you're shuffling your mining ship's worth of cargo while you could, instead, be producing yet more.

The end credit tradeoff for a group mining should be equivalent to all parties involved actively at the task of generating income.

That is the goal of the changes that are still in progress.

And yes 49 was smacked down. It was slated to happen far far sooner. Oh well, leave an imbalance in the system and people will flock to it in droves;)