New mining stuff

GrimGriz

Quote:

-Added DeepRadar MODx to aid miners in rapidly identifying potentially valuable asteroid types.
-Added new subsystem designed to use Ore Depots to help alleviate raw materials shortages and provide hauling tasks that are directly useful to the game economy.

If you know anything about these two, please put the info here.

JoeStraz · 10:23 AM

? Are these in a new patch?

**edit .. don't mind me .. I'm still new here

I found the announcement.

Radi

From what I can tell in offline sim, it only changes color of the roids. I'm not sure about it but roids will show redish when they have low yield.

ELPIRATA

Is it available allready?

ELP

GrimGriz

It's in the sim elp. From early testing the modx makes common brown, but the rest are gray. Unless Radi is right and the ones that were brown were the small ones... more testing in the future I guess. Right now I'm testing a theory on that subsystem thing.

GrimGriz

Quote:

-Added new subsystem designed to use Ore Depots to help alleviate raw materials shortages and provide hauling tasks that are directly useful to the game economy.

This quote, along with the rumor that ore is *appearing* in ore depots without anyone dropping it off seems to indicate that we've gone back to mining being worthless and hauling being everything again

Why the hell add a mining modx and do that at the same time?

Radi

Drastic times require drastic measures?

And RP side of it.

"Ore depots are now equipped with mining droids to help out with the economy"

ELPIRATA

From what I know, ore depots arent moving cargo.. we're still getting the usual announcements of 28 ore at RV depot.. bla bla bla. What we need to test is IF the destination mission that you would get is always Faction's depot or perhaps the other 3.

ELP

ELPIRATA

Hummmmm... unless...... the messages taht we are receiving from the ore depots arent made because players have dropped ore. I dunno, my theory is this... we are receiving some nice 100+ of ore at main gate and other places... perhaps nobdy has mined them or at least not all?

ELP

Goldstrike

Quote:

Originally Posted by ELPIRATA

Hummmmm... unless...... the messages taht we are receiving from the ore depots arent made because players have dropped ore. I dunno, my theory is this... we are receiving some nice 100+ of ore at main gate and other places... perhaps nobdy has mined them or at least not all?

ELP

There isn't a hundred precious ore anywhere near TP ore depot, so yeah we are getting it.

GrimGriz

Yeah, it struck me as odd that someone dropped 128 precious at the oct depot. Then when someone on :chat said it was magically appearing it just made sense. That'll be it for mining as far as I am concerned.

@Radi I'd rather see AI ships actually mining than this. At least I could pay people to blow those ships up (so people would buy commods from me).

Radi

I know. But consider current economy. When the Isty changed the economy, IT failed. Probly mostly due to low number of pilots willing to spend hours mining to keep production going.

He [Isty] have chosen to balance economy. He's the dev. He's trying to please most of the population (haulers that will have something to haul and pvpers that will have equipment for fighting)

Istvan wrote, that he is very reluctant to go back to economy problem. Mainly due to the complexity of it. Furthermore, he stated that his idea of factional warfare should include resources (read: roids).

I can imagine your dislike for his decisions, but I fully understand the reason behind it.

And who knows. Maybe those AI ships are in the making.

Keep in mind: this is not only YOUR game.

GrimGriz

It doesn't bother me, I enjoy pvp and other stuff just fine. It's a shame he wasted all that time on making all those changes to the econ, asteroids ratios, prices, etc. just to undo them.

Some people find mining boring. I personally find flying really slowly from gate to gate (hauling) boring. It bothers me some that people who enjoy mining are made useless while people who enjoy hauling get more to do. I also enjoy flipping beacons and pvp, so it just means I won't bother to mine anymore.

I know it's not only my game, but then again, at least i'm not TRI Classified so I guess it's a little more mine than yours eh?

Jump

Boy you sure know how to overreact G.

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	JoeStraz Cadet Pilot Name: JoeStraz Joystick: Saitek X45 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 63	? Are these in a new patch? **edit .. don't mind me .. I'm still new here I found the announcement.
		Last edited by JoeStraz; 06-17-2005 at 10:23 AM.


	Radi Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 627	From what I can tell in offline sim, it only changes color of the roids. I'm not sure about it but roids will show redish when they have low yield.


	ELPIRATA Moderator Pilot Name: ELPIRATA Faction: non-aligned Joystick: Saitek X45 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Carolina, PR Posts: 1,437	Is it available allready? ELP


	GrimGriz Highest Order Hypocrite Faction: non-aligned Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Portland Posts: 2,648	It's in the sim elp. From early testing the modx makes common brown, but the rest are gray. Unless Radi is right and the ones that were brown were the small ones... more testing in the future I guess. Right now I'm testing a theory on that subsystem thing.


	Jump Big Daddy Pilot Name: JumpDemon Faction: Solrain Joystick: MS FF2 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tracy, Ca. Posts: 6,959	Boy you sure know how to overreact G.