How to ballance mining?

[Thommy]

As an alternative to the "nerf or buff" poll, I would like to hear your opinions and thoughts on this:

Decrease the sell price, but increase the drop rate.

That way:

-teamwork with miner/hauler is encouraged more because efficience of teamwork increases ad drop rate increases (and as delivery time increases but distances dont need to be changed as I see it)

-miners get less emotionally attached to the ore that they have, because they spent less time mining it, and it is worht less per unit. Less Q_Q per lost load because less credits in them

-Piracy will become less lucrative because the cargo per trader is worth less (like it is with this nerf). Pirates wont like this, traders and lawfuls will.

Opinions please (especially the dev guys who ballanced the mining system)

[CzeReptile]

Increase drops, keep price.
Buff trading or something.

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[Tomtomrawr]

Increase drops, keep price.
Buff trading or something.

Agreed.

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[17:45:39] Wolfs Ghost (Murphy): Tom, you have problems. Go kill yourself.
[19:25:12] Johnny (Jam): Tomtom, I will beat you with a spoon.
[14:22:56] Prarabdh Thakur: KILL HIM WITH A SHEEP.
[17:40:48] Eagle (Junes): Tom should be slapped with a spoon.
[11:32:18] Warspite: Thank you for being so awesome Tom. <3
[18:17:36] Metano: I love you tomtom
[20:06:24] Warspite: I will seriously give you epic head.

Edit: also, Tomtomrawr, fappin' like a boss.

[Cosmos]

this server sucks.

I mean honestly, it takes 45-50 mins to mine a full load of say...Niobium and then it takes another 30 mins to get to the destination.
and it makes you like...51mill? which by the way sucks.

AND YET YOU NERF IT?

ITS PIXELS GOD DAMN IT!

Stop ruining this god forsaken server with all your nerfs.

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[22:50:33] ☆ҳ̸̲Ҳ̸ҳEternal†Nightmareҳ̸̲Ҳ̸ҳ☆(illi): i cyber with leather torps (smoking)

[the real dutch]

or distance to destination shorter

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[Stoat]

I'm all for the increased drop rates, keeping the current, nerfed prices

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My Stories

[Cosmos]

its a god damned game.

That's what You guys obviously don't realise, Yet You keep taking the fun out of it.

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[bobby]

Leave then, Cosmos.
Stop Q_Q about the supposed fix for the Q_Q that came from Q_Q and do something about it.

[Cosmos]

Silence.
You've been here for what? Two months? You've got alot to learn kiddo.

You haven't seen half the nerfs that have come through here.

I'm not QQing about the fixes or anything of that type, I'm Raeging at the amount of fail the devs have for doing such moronic things.

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[22:50:33] ☆ҳ̸̲Ҳ̸ҳEternal†Nightmareҳ̸̲Ҳ̸ҳ☆(illi): i cyber with leather torps (smoking)

[SeaFalcon]

Cosmos please go outside and do some counting?
Come back when you have an idea how to fix the mining issue;)

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Miners are in my opinion supposed to be on one spot to mine.
This makes the a easy target. But they are not meant to fly all over Sirius.

So my suggestion
- Make mining vessels have a 1k bay. Rest of the ship is needed to sort out the resources from the rocks for the major part. But since they are not efficient enough the rest will be done on a processing plant. Also give it more armor and less defenses. So pirates will have to be busy for a while to take down the miner. In the mean time Escort vessels have time to take out the pirate.

- Make the stations where to sell ore closer to the fields. Not too high prices for the ore so it won't be like 'MINING FTW'. Maybe up to 5k?
Make the drop rates for mining vessels only higher.

The bases where you sell the ore will also sell the processed goods a little more then the ore. Bases that want to buy the processed goods pay even more. But the difference in prices is as a regular trade route.