The future of mining?

[Ain.Graffias]

I start to believe some people have no real clue of how important mining is for gameplay interactions.
What they see is the silent miner shooting rocks, cursing at the pirate, getting a sanction and all that kindergarden stuff.
Let me tell you:
> There is fabulous mining roleplay that has nothing to do with "I need money for my Cap, powermine!!!".
> There is diplomacy and political interaction linked directly to mining activity (Molly-IMG, D6 trades creating hours of roleplay interaction and made the completely unused Arranmore field a playground)
> Without mining there is no minefield-piracy. Ask the Molly players what they will do now.
> Without mining there is no hauling. And I am not talking about the minimal interaction of "5k/u", but real roleplay. Because it exists. Ask the people who do this every day.
> Without mining related hauling, there will be less "stable" targets for pirates to threaten. The fixed miners were a great point of focus for action. Not all positive, but not all negative either.
> You take away the reason of existence of many mining factions by turning off what we are there for. You render them unlogical constructs that will have to switch to... yeah... what? Pewpew... the BEST (*sarcasm!!!*) and last problematic (*sarcasm!!!*) part of the game.
I am thoroughly disappointed.
And I'd suggest you get your point of view adjusted to the real gameplay and not only judge an important part of the game by the number of complaints you get.
Because there is good mining roleplay, there are positive factors in it and I guess you don't see them because if you did, you would have never just turned it off.
Jack

I agree with you.
There is actually some good RP in mining. the thing is that you can see it only in local chat. And in system chat you can see only "2milRdai" and "nou"
Keeper visited me on his Wild GB once in Tau-23 while i was mining. We had a very sweet RP.
Please do not take it from us.

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