Mining

[Benjamin]

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.

So what is the point in mining at all? I've mined a lot at bornholm. With the 'perfect team' or whatever, with one guy basically just docking and undocking, it makes about half as much money as trading in a ptrain, with unbelievably more amounts of effort, AND RISK. I've never been pirated or stopped by the police or whatever on my smuggler, but ask any guys who hang out at bornholm a lot - indie BHG caps and indie RM caps come and blast you to bits multiple times a day. So, more risk than trading, more work than trading, and much worse profit than trading...and it's too good?

The general consensus seems to be that mining was really hyped up for .85, everyone made miners, were 'underwhelmed' by how good mining was, and since then there have been a couple of very significant nerfs, with evidently more to follow. What's the point of putting so much effort in to a system if it isn't even half as worthwhile as a much easier option? Who exactly is going to mine?


And I don't buy the team mining anyway. Mining stuff and then taking it somewhere isn't mining. It's mostly trading, with a bit of mining. And the mining element just seems to drag down the profit of the trading part, unless you have a team of 40 guys, all working perfectly in sync, then apparently it should be okay?


/rant


edit: tenacity also reading your stats, I'm not sure how we didn't use to make wa more money doing that (I dont do it anymore because it didn't seem to make much money and being attacked endlessly by indie oorp caps isn't my idea of a good time). I mean, you say it drops 10-20 scrap metal units per barrel? Last time I was doing it in my collector, I was getting 50-120 per barrel, with a couple of us feeding them into a P Trans who had docking duties. And well, whilst shooting a barrel and getting 120 units of scrap, at 500 per, is like 60,000cr a sec or whatever, I definitely wasn't making a million a minute. Not sure why that is, but yeah.

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