Mining

[Encheta]

On topic: 15-20million per hour does seem a bit low for the target profits. Trading seems to be 25-30 million for most routes, so that could be a better target to aim for.

I agree. The average trade leg looking at flcompanion is 200c/sec, which for a 5k trans is 36mil an hour. Plus, it's not all that uncommon for legs to be even 250c/sec if not more..

Nerfing decisions are made based on this target weighted with the likely risk to the miners. As o49 field is in a neutral (possibly allied) area, the risk to miners is basically nil and thus the field was nerfed to somewhere around 15-20 million per hour.

Granted, o49 is rather secluded without pirates, but I beleive it just looks so bad and bugged as it's currently the feild with the closest profits to trading. Once all the feilds yeild the same profits (approximately) everyone should spread out across sirius and it'll be fine again. That being said, we have to be careful not to make mining look like too much effort for the profit when compared to trading, else the mining population that's exploded to life on the server is going to wither and die out to 4.84 levels over the course of about 3-4months.

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