J'Mkarr Soban
Amarr
Proxenetae Invicti
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Posted - 2008.07.18 11:47:00 -
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Edited by: J''Mkarr Soban on 18/07/2008 11:53:44
 Originally by: Kiki Arnolds
You plan seems to favor high SP players at the expense of low SP players... Currently high SP get more M^3/s, but everyone (who can safely get to the asteroid) has access to the same ore qualities. A new player who is smart, and mines the right stuff, can help close the gap with a higher SP miner pulling more M^3 of less valuable ore... With your plan, a high SP player doesn't even need to consider the market, just get high skills and start churning M^3...
Asteriods are already doing what you propose in a sense... with the exception of veldspar, every asteroid type produces a mixture of minerals... what sense is it to further complicate things with a mixture of ores, which will just be a different distrobution of minerals? Other than to clutter my cargo bay with more stacks of ore, and to reward those with many refining skills (again rewarding high SP at the expense of low) what does this accomplish?
Not really. The more SP players will be spending their time flying around looking for the more expensive ore, rather than mining rubbish. It would have to be balanced that they'd make more money from prospecting for higher-grade ore than simply mining lower grade ore. That way the low-grade ore is kept to the newer (or bored) players, and the older miners do what they do best.
EDIT: As for T2 and strip miners - keep strip miners as the bulk things they are - it's the same as blasting and filtering. But I'd make T2 mining lasers use crystals for the specific ore types, and when used on a roid only that ore is extracted. That way you'd have the older miners (as described above) zipping around prospecting all over the place for the best ore, then extracting the best ore that they can find, which leaves even more of the less expensive ore for the newer players to do.
This is one of the few ideas that caters for everyone, I think 
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