Plus, in the mining thread in balance forum, it was said by devs that the goal was to make mining WORSE than trading, period.
Why ? Mining requires MUCH more effort. You have to continualy be in motion shooting to make it effective, whereas with trading you just F2/F3 and occasionly hold down C, or use /givecash.
With mining, you usualy dont even have the option to run as if youre mining seriously, you aint paying enuf attention to realize you NEED to run til too late.
And eys you could make 120mil an hour mining, but that cant be kept up for long, I know becasue I put in a number of hours doing it over the weekend before the nerf, and my rates droped steadily as my eyes got more tired from that bright system.