Is mining dead?

[BLaPP]

During the reboot yesterday or the day before, did you change the chances of decent ores dropping again?

I was on for approx 5-6 hours last night most of which I spend in MM, and what did i get? 4 Adamantine ores and one platinum ore..... in that many hours!!!! now I do not think that it should be made easy to get the stuff needed to make gems, but what has been done to mining since the server started is severe overkill.

Maximum of 3 clients at any one time, that was totally understandable.

Implementing the 30 second rule for any one spot, that I have only just got my head around and adapted.

But decreasing the chance to get anything ontop all of the above??!?! Seems ridiculous overkill to me.

I enjoyed mining and being able to pop off to do house jobs, or make a brew or see to the kids and pop back every few minutes to check on my character. Now it is just untenable and absolutely the opposite of enjoyable.

People may disagree with me, but the way I see it, if someones gonna put that sorta time into doing something then there needs to be light at the end of the tunnel, or it will just kill the enjoyment and people wont do it anymore (which if im being honest is the way mining is very close to being)

I think that maybe you should increase the time allowed in one spot before moving to like 3 minutes or something close to that. This still means that people cant go AFK all day and rip the ass out of it, but there is still a limit in place. 2 or 3 minutes would be adequate it think. Anyone agree or disagree?

Going AFK is part of the game whether people like it or not. Don't punish me just because I dont spend every second at my PC.

Purely as an example, if I am afk mining for 3 minutes, I am not getting any advantage over somone that is sitting at their PC doing the same thing for 3 minutes. Infact it is more of a disadvantage as I cannot defend myself if anything. So what is the problem with going AFK while doing menial tasks like mining?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Roborius]

I agree mate. I have completely stopped digging.

 

[Skyline]

I do it whilst at work, as i have a seperate laptop next to me so I can keep an eye on it and just keep moving when I need to. But I must admit, Mining is a bit of a pain now.

And to make it worse, I have been mining for about 5 hours, for 2 days. I've had about 4 bits of plat, all below Pur12 and about 5 bits of Adamantine ore.

So yes, the rate seems to have been significantly lowered.

 

[BLaPP]

I put it to the GMs and coders to consider putting the drop rate back to what it was before the last update, and also increase the time you can spend in one spot to 4 or 5 minutes, but certainly not get rid of it altogether. This limit will still prevent people leaving their characters mining all day to come home to a full bag etc, and still require significant input by the mining player.

 

[Male]

I was in mineral mine last night for one and a half hours mining on 3 accounts at the same time (only way mining now is even remotely good.) I pulled out 11 adamantine and 3 plat only one of which was pur 12+.

I think the reason they keep nerfing mining into the ground is because they are trying to reduce the amount of gems in game, which is a good thing but they are going about it the wrong way.

Make mining less of a pain and the chance for gems to fail being made higher or the chance of a "nothing happened" to be higher, they should be harder to use then bene's are or at least on the same level.

 

[Insinia123]

Would prefer if we could spend a bit longer in one spot. not sure about rates they seem lower but that may be down to being able to get higher pura than 16 ore now?

 

[Male]

Just finished an hour mining again, 5 bits of plat two of which 12+ and 7 adamantine ore. Running again with 3 miners

 

[Slipmatt]

I don't see what everyone's problem is? Sunday night/Monday morning I was mining for about 2 and a half, 3 hours and had about 10-11 adamantine ores and about 6 or 7 play 3 of which were puri 12+ doesn't seem too bad tbh, euro was a hell of a lot worse than that!

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