Mining profits

[.:Mongoose:.]

I have had a mixed experience of the mining in Penn over the last few days.

Sadly only one real enjoyable encounter while I pirated a miner who had an escort and we had some good RP.

Unfortunately the majority of people mining seem to be purely there to make as much money as possible and have no interest in anybody but themselves. Typical example 2 days ago 7 mining ships within 10k of each other. Turn up in my pirate bomber and think 'I will give it a go but this could get messy'

Amazingly 3 of the miners pay up, no problem! Bear in mind most of them have 2 or 3 mining turrets and the rest 'real guns' Next one completely ignores me to the point where I blow him up! Not a peep out of him, or anyone else, but he just turned up again 10 minutes later and continued mining. Next guy, definite lack of English, eventually responds after taking a few hits to say ' me pay you why!' 'how many?' *sighs* Finally at this point an IMG turns up and gets stuck in to defend the miner.

The sad thing is that if they had all went 'Hold on a minute' from the start and teamed up I would have had my behind served to me pretty damn quick and no doubt made a hasty retreat. As it was I made 6m and had some target practice and went on my way

Sad to say I decided against paying Penn a visit today

I have to say my initial reaction was hooray for the mining mod it will open up some many possibilities for teamwork and great RP. My worry now is that people are just using it as a quick way to make shed loads of money and with no interaction with anyone else, if they can avoid it :nono: