Admin Notice: Server testing #4

[SA_Scavenger]

What about scrap, considering its very low price? Does it also fit into the 1000 units per 10 minutes category?

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[Stuart.croll]

No, this is the design target. All active fields are intended to drop around 1000 units in 10 minutes. This is particularly true of safe fields like this one.

Fields that drop more than this - generally - will be nerfed.

This statement will probably kill mining.

What you are saying is that it will take almost 1 hour to fill a 5K trans. Then you still have to haul it.

I thought the original idea was to decrease the amount of time that miners spent actually mining, hence the sale price nerf.

Guess it's trading for me then

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[Taneru]

What you are saying is that it will take almost 1 hour to fill a 5K trans. Then you still have to haul it.

Hire four or five smaller miners to help fill that train, and you'll find it takes SIGNIFICANTLY shorter.

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[Stuart.croll]

Hire four or five smaller miners to help fill that train, and you'll find it takes SIGNIFICANTLY shorter.

Like I said I'll trade

Sorry but I am probably a sociopath

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[Soban]

No, this is the design target. All active fields are intended to drop around 1000 units in 10 minutes. This is particularly true of safe fields like this one.

Fields that drop more than this - generally - will be nerfed.

Ah great, time to sold the miner.
By the way I do some test on the o11 field


Where: o11, Asteroid Field near the o54 jh
Ship: Hegemon
Id/IFF : DHC
Guns: Transport Mining turrets
Result: I have filled the hegemon in 8 min as usual so nearly 3000 in 10 min.
Opinion: before the test mining diamond gived about 25m/ hour now it's 16m/h

Where: o11, the field near the one above ^
Ship: Hegemon
Guns: Transport Mining turrets
Result: I have filled the hegemon in 21-22 min as usual so nearly 1250 in 10 min.
Opinion: same

Last thing since the test when I log off ( with engine down and not moving) each time I 'm back, i'm 30 to 41k exactly above or below where I logged off.

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[Hielor]

No, this is the design target. All active fields are intended to drop around 1000 units in 10 minutes. This is particularly true of safe fields like this one.

Fields that drop more than this - generally - will be nerfed.

So, for example, the Niobium fields in T23--it's now supposed to take longer to get less money? I thought the point of the mining changes was to put it on bar with trading, not far below it. With the new sell prices but the old drop rate (~22min to fill a Hege) it's just barely break-even with trading. Lowering the drop rate in addition to that means it's not even going to come close.

Not to mention that I'm guessing that number is intended to be when the field is "full"? So as it gets mined out, it will get even worse?

Yeah, back to trading for me as well.

[Oxslow]

Not sure if it is meant to be like this.

In Omega 11 near the 54 jump hole I mined 1000 units in 3 mins 34 seconds. Maybe this is because it is more "dangerous". This is a lot quick that a 1000 in 10 minutes that you said about Cannon

Edit: Forgot to say I was in a Hegemon my Id/IFF was DHC

[Korny]

Alright. Lets talk on ramming damage from own ships in a group fight even though they're in the same size as me 8-|

Whose idea was that ? It's frickin' stupid. Losing more bots due accidental ramming with team mates than due enemy guns.

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[Vladimir]

You probably hit the fully recharded field. And it's a big surprise you weren't hit by Hessians. We'll see to it.

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[Oxslow]

Don't worry a corsair caught me instead. Makes a change from donating to you guys all the time. * winks*