I wouldnt loose too much in fact, except a possibility to RP with miners and to ship the ore as an in RP action...
since i dont have a miner char, I dont loose anything. Except all the miner encounters on routes, for sure. Some nice talks to good RP'ers. And to the pirates, stationed there to pirate the miners/ore haulers...
Roger Claymore, for example. :)
I understand, that someone may say that all the RP of some chars is built up on mining... But as far as i remember, there was an RP server right before the mining mod... I have been here, too at this time.
And for sure, there was an RP, too... And people who were interested in playing on the server.
Surely, not so many folks in one place, like in the mining locations actually. And not that many good rp'ers at the same time in a sys. but either, not that many lolwuts and troublemakers and Q_Qers.
Such things always have a good and a bad side. And i dont want to judge about atm. Maybe we should just have a look how it will develop. Since we cant do anything at the moment...