Mining Development

possibilties are being discussed about increasing mining. Details are confidential at this point.

Like usual : be patient !

Sorry to be so late to this one, but I have been mining Altair & IC since they opened ^^. The main issue being that distances are greater in those systems, and most ppl aren't patient enough to do it. This is also complicated by the dynamic economy, and finding a time when the return on the time invested brings the maximum return in credits. This is, however, another good incentive to increase one's exploration, so the trade values can be known on any given day!

Mining locations in Altair and IC are unposted and unknown to probably everyone but you. Just sayin'. Seriously, though. Sounds like an interesting idea if people knew where to mine. I'll look in to it.

Seems like Mining in IC and Altair would be kinda dangerous....

Faaby Love the new pic BTW ;D

Well, their are some interesting mining spots around - 2200 credits x 5000 units is also a good income if the fields are dropping like hell (what some are doing).

It also clearly depends on your rep if it is dangerous, normaly it isn´t.

The thing about Altair and IC, though, is that you can't moor with a train anywhere except Murmansk. Kinda makes it not viable unless OP adds moors to Coaly and DK stations. I bet that's coming, though.

I agree to the more mooring points request in Altair (where at least OP will decide this) but you also can unload

nope

He can´t unload? O_O

he can but im not sure about mooring in altair

just two or three because somewhere should those Carrier and other large Altair ships dock... or?

...as i heard we are in a friendly relation with DK, so would be nice to show us hospitality and make few mooring in their space or at least fully dockable bases(with all this alien technology this is piece of cake)

ps
OP no doubt you and team must spent hundreds of hours in developing of game with all this new systems and bases.But where is the point if no one goes there except for hunting purpose and some equipment.Let ppl to decide where they want to RP, trade, mining and so on...as u can see whole server is in one place-Sirius^-^ and ok CF is the biggest mod, sooo big that we stay in Sirius all the time.

greets

DKs have nothing to do with it
there never will be mooring in DK space

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there never will be mooring in DK space

Never say never...but ok.

thanks for reply

Mining is faster & easier in an APC, anyway; the main challenge now is to get one to IC safely now that the APC only has a class 7 shield. 8-o

Easy ! flank it with 2 KD and 3-4 VHFs.... it'll be in Weth safely in no time !

Yes, that level 7 shield really isn't desirable at all. The BPmk3 would be better suited if the APC has the same shield, due to performance of the ship itself.

the work on the mining concept has been finished:
I have decided against all other existing methods of doing it eventhough they had benefits in multiplayer
reason for that is the server performance which probably would have gotten worse

So whats new?
All mining fields have raised max values for the loot (3 times more than before). That means that you can get 3 times more loot from dynamic asteroids.... if you have luck because that is just the max value and loot is randomly generated between the min and max value.
Additionally it takes slightly longer before you actually get loot since I have increased the difficulty by one level.
When mining fields previously had 100% chance to get loot out of an asteroid then the chance is 50% now (this example applies mainly for scrap metal and water; other minerals have already higher difficulties and therefore the difficult increase is not that heavy -> eg: 33% old -> 25% new or 10% old -> 8% new for higher value minerals).
So to say... mining got slightly different but you have a higher chance to get more loot.
This will make mining more interesting as one day you might have a bad day and cant mine that much and on the other day you can almost flood the market. Depending on the zones and which risk you are willing to take mining will become more valueable (by risk i mean pie-rats).
One more aspect of mining is the existence of megaroids. These carry up to 500 units of a mineral.
Again you might have noticed that i said that these carry "up to 500 units"... if you have bad luck they wont give you more than the usual amount (thats totally random).
The megaroids a rare. You have to fly some time to find one of them but you can see them from great distance.
Trying to destroy them with a normal ship is useless. It requires to have a mining ship with mining laser. Even then you have to get damn close to that roid to crack it.

To sum up mining has greatly improved and supports some kind of teamplay if you wish (miner + train).