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Server testing #13 - Cannon - 04-18-2011 I have finally found the mining update files and deployed them. The price changes will take place after the next restart - in 10 minutes from now. The vast bulk of these changes have kindly been prepared Aeternus. Thanks man. Sell points & prices:
Fighter and transport mining turrets now for sale on Planet New Berlin. All Rheinland mining factions can pick them up from there. Mining with non-mining ship combinations and hitting with a non-mining turret is again possible although at a greatly reduced rate. Both these changes are to allow guard/escort ships to assist miners if they have no enemies to deal with - prevents players from sitting around with nothing to do during group play. GMG bonuses are unchanged be for now - until a more definate plan for those, in respect to gas mining, can be worked out. Apart from the large outage due to hosting issues, the server seems quite stable now. This is nice. I think we're getting fewer crashes than we used to have. As usual, post issues and complaints here. Server testing #13 - rwx - 04-18-2011 ' Wrote:Copper ore: Additional sellpoint at BPA Newgate, 5500 credits. hmm, is there still a BMM rep ninja for DHC? Evertime I get a BMM NPCs on scanners, BAF/BPA turns red and fires at me. [EDIT] Ok, found. Quote:5) DHC-BMM repninja removed Server testing #13 - Jinx - 04-18-2011 sounds reasonable - although i m still not quite sure if the mining was a blessing of a curse for disco ( in general ... or something like gallia [ no idea if its a blessing or a curse ] ) but - since these changes can be made without physical updates - i guess at least those can reflect upon a dynamic situation. Server testing #13 - ryoken - 04-18-2011 I like most changes,but as for Oxygen, Water,and hydro carbon mining? No one does it,as their is no good selling points. Best price is 15minutes away,and still pays crap all.These prices need a huge increase before anyone will bother mining them. Even as RP mining/cargo it is useless as pirates still demand like 5mil,and you will not even earn 2mil for a 5K train. As for the rest? great job. Server testing #13 - Hielor - 04-18-2011 Good news all, I might dust of my Spatial for mining now. Thanks for the work! One part I'm concerned about: ' Wrote:[*]Added a x1.0 bonus to the Miner ID for: Helium, Oxygen, Water, Alien Artifacts, Alien Organims, Hydrocarbons. Using the default mining ships.Good to hear overall, but the bolded bits are what I'm concerned about. This doesn't really bring back Helium mining in Penn as a way for new players to get money, because the starting mining ship has almost no cargo space. Since it's not possible to mine with any other ID (and not possible without the mining lasers), you won't be able to mine Helium with any /restart other than the miner restart, so you'd have to use the Basalt, which means you spend ten seconds mining helium to go get $12000 at Erie. Not to mention that the miner restart is hostile to liberty criminals, which means you'll have Rogues after you in that cloud... Server testing #13 - ryoken - 04-18-2011 ' Wrote:Good news all, I might dust of my Spatial for mining now. Thanks for the work! I guess you missed this part of Cannon's post? Mining with non-mining ship combinations and hitting with a non-mining turret is again possible although at a greatly reduced rate. Both these changes are to allow guard/escort ships to assist miners if they have no enemies to deal with - prevents players from sitting around with nothing to do during group play. Server testing #13 - Soban - 04-18-2011 Just to know, the depletion system is still on ? Server testing #13 - Tomtomrawr - 04-18-2011 I'm happy about the 25% extra bonus for the smaller mining ships, and certainly hope it will, as you also hope, promote team play. Server testing #13 - AeternusDoleo - 04-18-2011 ' Wrote:Since it's not possible to mine with any other ID (and not possible without the mining lasers), you won't be able to mine Helium with any /restart other than the miner restart, so you'd have to use the Basalt, which means you spend ten seconds mining helium to go get $12000 at Erie.You've not read the entire update log properly. Out of bonus mining is possible with any ship and ID now, although at a greatly reduced rate. Due to the very high drops in the helium cloud, it evens out - new players can mine there and fill up a CSV reasonably quick. A miner ID player can also fill up a train very quick with a Basalt or Dacite. As for the Oxy, Water and Hydrocarb mining: It's something you can do for giggles. Hydrocarb has a short route from Tau29 to Tsushima (800 per unit) which is something Samura could easily do. We don't see many Kusari miners however - not sure why. Water and Oxy are easy and quick to mine - and can be sold anywhere. Convenient low-value cargo anyone can get at.. Server testing #13 - Oldum - 04-18-2011 The old sale points were kept the same right ? |