' Wrote:Mining is hampered right now by mining ships just hitting cruise the second ANYTHING shows up at 14k. Screaming NO NO NO NO NO STOP STOP STOP I REPORT YOU STOP STOP STOP before you can get within 10k or dashing for a quickdock in Omega 7. Yes I know why you're so popular Kruger and Omega 7. IMG capfleets lollerskates. Thankfully some changes are coming to correct that.
Can you blame them?
1) The only cargo pirates want is the ore. I have never been pirated and asked for any cargo except the ore. Why? Because it is worth more than anything else in game.
2) As I said in my post earlier, pirates log on as soon as they see someone in a mining fields. Then head to that field and take all the miners ore. Does not get any easier than that and I believe that is a problem.
3) I do not believe the answer is getting an escort to sit there with you to protect you. Why? because the problem is the 'lazy pirate' not the miner. Some (not all) pirates want the easy kill. Which does prove your point Dusty that people want it easy.
You hear over and over again that this is an RP server, exept when it comes to the ore. I meet pirates while just trading and most of them will rp before they ask for anything. But not the lazy ore pirates. They are there for one reason and one reason only....to take your ore. Not just some of it mind you, but all of it.
So why doesn't a miner run to protect his hard work to Elbich? Why is that wrong? This problem is not the miner it is the pirate. And until that is fixed you are alway going to have the miners run to the nearest base and it is sad that the miners get the bad rap for doing so.
