Mining profits

[Cannon]

I thought I would post the following to explain why the mining profits are reasonably high.

They are high so that miners can afford to pay escorts or pirates a reasonable amount of money.

Do not complain if you are pirated, hire escorts. Two bombers can destroy multiple transports pretty easily.

If you cannot find escorts then consider what you are paying them. If you pay an escort 2 million per hour and you make 30-40 million per hour then this will be the problem. Pay your escorts 10-20 mil per hour or more.

For example, if you have a group of 6 mining ships, mining for 4 hours you can easily afford to pay 2-3 escorts 50-100 million each for this period.

The current mining profit levels are an experiment to see if we can encourage the existance of pirates and escorts and increase interaction between these groups and miners. If the experiment fails then we'll probably reduce the profits available from mining.

EDIT: A note on pirates selling ore: Most pirates can't land on the bases where the ore is bought. Pirates will need to sell the ore through a third party. For many pirates selling the ore to zoners or junkers will be necessary to convert the ore into cold hard cash. Your profits might be halved as a result of this but this is intentional.

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