Mining changes

[Sand-Viper]

Because then they'd just raise ship prices AGAIN.

This is dumb. My FAVORITE thing to do in the whole entire game of Freelancer has been nerfed to all hell. Sure, it seems a bit much at 12k per unit of ore for Niobium, but there are a variety of factors that make it hard to gather it all up.

1: It takes a considerable amount of time to mine the stuff.
2: While you are mining, a pirate can come along and easily blow you up. Even with escorts.
3: After you are full, you can either book it for the destination solo, then end up being pirated numerous times/blown to bits, or...
4: You can hire an escort to scout ahead. If pirates are detected, then you have to distract them from seeing your transport, or ask them why they are there (the example of a Junker hovering above Freistadt in O-7 in a PTrans trying to pirate you comes to mind).
5: You won't always make it with a full load, if at all, because of pirates coming to steal your ore.
6: Even if you somehow manage to make it to the destination and sell the ore, you still have to head back, so if you die, you obviously can't go back for another 4 hours.

I am REALLY disappointed with the sudden "lolnerf" path the Admins have chosen. The fact that they gave no notice WHATSOEVER is what REALLY peeves me off.

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