I know mining is beta

[Exsiled_one]

Hey Dusty, and other admins working hard on mining. We have been told that mining is in heavy beta atm and that it's fully experimental. But I would like to clap my hands twice (if not three times!) for the Dublin situation you've created.

Knowing Kusarians need ore, they can stretch to Leeds and Dublin to get it.
Knowing they NEED ore, that's exactly what they'll do.
BMM needs the ore too. For Bretonia, and for profits. They're not safe from Mollies, they're not safe from Kusari. And they know its a deadly situation to mine there.
Kusari also doesn't have a base to repair and restock there ( Hood is uncool for that ), while BMM and Bowex can organize some better defenses.

All in all, its an thrilling position - doesn't matter if I'm in my freighter just looking for BMM miner to make him drop the Emperor's gold, or that I'm in a miner myself with few escort miners, trying to mine out as much as I can in 30-45 minutes before we're spotted and entire Bretonia runs into Dublin.


The situation in Omegas can be the same. IMG should be crawling there more, with Kruger and Daumann on their back, harassing them about their minerals. Hessians and Corsairs are constant threat for RM to deal with, and ofcourse, every IMG vessel that decides to fire on Rheinland corporations.
The rewards at the moment are just. Thery're not overly high so someone can't take an advantage of low population on server and actually earn tons while having no risk, and they're not too low, so organizing few miners, few escort miners and two transports is a highly profitable task to earn cash with. Did I mention it's frikkin fun?

So please, keep in mind these conflicts that make the game awesome while you make that mining system for Sigmas and the people in Sigmas.
I wouldn't say mining is either broken or in beta concerning the actual roleplay value. From the mechanical side, I cannot really say. Yields look good to me every time I mine.

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<span style="color:#33CC00">I AM GIVING AWAY MONEY TO CREATIVE MINDS*</span>