Reducing the ore prices like this is a bad idea.
Nerfing it by 50 %?
So they are close to solo activity? Really?
Have you really considered that mining needs 2+ players?
Have you considered that this is only possible these days if you have a good organisatuion?
Have you considered that mining is the only standard money making activity on the server that requires teamplay and creates points of focus where interaction is static and can happen easily?
All this is is a buff to solo trading.
It is mainly a buff to smuggling.
In both, you do not need a miner. You do not need to bother. You can go where you want, whenever you want with whatever you want.
Poorly thought through.
You just signed the death warrant of many mining factions because it is already hard to convince people to go to the length of coop playing when you can just solo trade in peace.
I am asking myself: Are you even playing the game?
Because this change seriously makes me doubt that.
It runs contrary to everything the game needs.