If Mining is forever turned off.. or nerfed...

[Jihadjoe]

Still,
I think mining should be spread around.

Kusari, the Sigmas (gas mining), Everywhere to bolster population and get people to SPREAD OUT.

Make the prices near even so nobody clogs one system like Dublin.

Dublin wasn't even that good...
If we create six equally profitable mining fields around sirius, only one of them gets used at a time. It's the one which is in the least out-of-the-way spot. For example, Daumann diamond mining in Omega 11, has been the best, most profitable mining in the game, since the day the mining mod was turned on... Nobody used it... Why?

Well to start with Pennsylvania's mining was right infront of people when they undocked for the first time. That's a stupid mistake we made, and it reaaaaaally needed to be turned off. So it was. Then we had Dublin. That's a vanilla system, quick and easy to get to, and importantly, known by your average nub.
Activity breeds more activity, so once you've got people in a spot mining, you can see more people going there and emulating them, and then you get pirates who suddenly have something to do, and then lawfuls.
So soon enough, everyone sees thousands of people in one spot, and so assumes that must be -the- place to go to make money when infact, it's really not.

BMM - Tau 23 (it's really rather good)
IMG - Tau 23
IMG - Omega 7
Daumann - Omega 11 and Omega 7
Kruger - Omega 7


Those are the profitable mining spots outside dublin. Nobody uses the BMM field in 23, nobody uses the Daumann field in 11 (which is the most profitable mining in the game, seriously).

Blame the flock mentality.

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