The problem in the whole deal is that the mining is not as old as the trading and piracy.
In general I find mining broken. It was broken still in the beginning at Penny silver mining, Taos hate between OCs and Colonials, then the Gold rush in Dublin,tons of admin warnings, tons of F1 sanctions, then the whole hate and stuff about virtual credits...
Having full unprotected mining ship alone is just wrong at the first place.
If someone mines alone unprotected it is his problem. I tried both sides as pirate and merc and I am dissappointed as both, as pirate the miners to F1 or not to pay you anyway gank you for example, as merc they wont hire you if they are not shoot by pirate or will offer you 500k to escort them to the end of the route while they made 1000% more at the same time. Since the miners are not so cooperative as players, the pirates reflect their behavior, I would always demand the whole cargo of someone who base huggs, gank and F1. On the other side if the miner is busted by the pirate and offers him bribe the chances of paying not that much are high.
And the solution is so simple really but I have no idea why this is not implemented>
Just make the Hegemon mining bonus doubled as it is now, reduce its cargo to 800 for example and you kill the alone miners, other good option is to increase the dropping rate and reduce the selling prices. So you will have more movement from both pirate miner&hauler sides.
If each shipment is not so valuable for both sides the people wont do stupid things like F1ing or breaking the rules, the pirates wont make same demands but the lost wont be so huge as now if the trader loses his cargo. In such scenario the admins can slap around 35/40% more profit to the mining due to group effort and the risks.
I asked for this like a year ago when I saw that the system is broken. Till now for me there is no idea how this could be a issue.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
