[Petition] Un-Nerf Mining!

[RonG777]

Ron, I really hate to have to do this, but no. Don't you get it? I don't make money trading. Pirates eat half your profits or more, escorts (that don't always work, as I have long since learnt) can eat even more. The best you can do trading is about 30 mil an hour. A large number of the runs under Xoria's trading system involve blockade running, which sucks. I use the term large relatively, you understand, because there aren't that many. It used to be that you could string together whatever made money and call it a trade route - you'd do okay regardless. Now there are about twenty triangles spread across Sirius that represent all of the normal trade routes. Ron, this sucks. I don't even want to do anything with my money anymore, I just want to make some and go somewhere interesting in the process. I can't do that right now. At least, with mining, I could make money and talk to people (the majority of whom were not pirates). Now the money part is gone. I might as well go back to not making much money in a liner. This happened because somebody is lazy (and probably not Cannon, as Dusty's poem rings true).

No, no my friend. Don't ever say you hate to offer your opinon to me. I respect your opinion as well as all the members of our great community . . .

You have brought up some valid points. I do know you can't make near as much credits as we used to trading . . And, I think back in the days when I helped in funding the creation of our faction . . The entry fees, the cost for a guard system, the cost for a custom built base . . . It was billions and billions of credits . . . We all traded our butts off to get the cash back then. I could only imagine how difficult it would be these days. Thank you Epp for pointing that out to me . .

I guess what I meant by the new trading system, is that, Yes, you can't make the big bucks like we used to, but, there are (at least it seems to me) a greater varity of trading out there to make a decent dollar.

I guess I been lucky lately, I have no more factions to help fund and I found a nice little trade run that more than enough finaces all my characters and dosn't have much pirate activity as others out there. Perhapse I have been sheltered . . .(Also I know that my other characters are not as costly as others, but it is what I want)


I also understand how mining is more localized compared to trading, and one gets to spend more time in RP and communicating with players. I really do believe that this can still be done with the new adjustments as long as Pirate characters will ask for 1 -2 mill (for lager ships, instead of 20 - 50 mill . . )

The only thing I could say to one who is working hard to start a faction, or buying that gaurd system is that you may need more players now to achieve that goal compaired to the old days. But, in a way, it seems that many of the solutions to our MP game here Is to include more players to achive our goals . . .

Thank you again Eppy for your input and insight on this . . .

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