Mining

[pragun]

I ve been thinking about the reduced drop rates and here's some math i did...
Bear in mind, i am referring to the Omega 49 mining field here.

Earlier, with the original drop rates, It used to take about 6 minutes for a miner to fill up a 5K transport, and for the transport to sell and return.

That came out to 10 trips in an hour, with 9 mil profit per run. After the hour, we split the 90 mil, and the NET Profit comes out to about 45 mil per person.

If the same thing is done solo, a miner can make at most 6 trips to and from gran canaria in an Hour. 5 trips is more likely. Each trip gets your a profit of more or less exactly 5 mil, bringing the profit to 25-30 mil per hour.
This encouraged mining in a group of 2, or multiples of 2.

Now, with the new decreased drop rate, a 5 k transport working with one miner can make at most 5 trips (takes roughly 12 minutes to fill up and return). Profit = 45 million. Profit per person = 22.5 million

If the miner chooses to go go solo, he can make 4 trips within the hour, making a profit of 20 million. This does not encourage group work !

Additionally, this is nowhere near the money you can make if you trade. 5 K transports can easily make 40-50 mil per hour trading. Mining should be able to rival that ! (atleast if you work in groups of miner+hauler)

And it should not be far behind should the miner go alone. The server is not full all the time. It is not always possible to find people to haul for you everytime you chose to mine.
To add to that, if you have a hauler with you, you have absolutely no time to stop and talk. Now i like to do that stuff ! I like to chit chat with other miners, and zoners in that system.

I even supplied niobium to a zoner colony called auxium for a change. (fun day)

Mining needs to return more. Please, its a humble request.
I ve been trading all my time here on disco, and wanted to do something else for a change.

I am not the expert here, so i cant calculate what it was and should be, but the way mining was going on in omega 49, it was fun.

Can we please revert to that ?

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