Pwnst4r

I have just returned from about a one year hiatus and I'm still not sure what to think. Aren't asteroids supposed to help with this? Can't you still mine on other planets, just not Alioth? I left once after betas initial launch as not much had changed since alpha. Beta round 2's changes to how Schematics worked was.. a blow to my confidence to say the least. I played again anyway, got schematics, built a ship and moved off Alioth. It was okay, but still some things were lacking and the industry change really made me question why I was playing this game. PVP was not in a good state per se at the time and death cubes or w/e they were called were the meta. (I'm sure they still are, I haven't looked) Nevertheless, we tried to make our way, but just fell out of touch with the game and left for a bit, in hopes that release would have some answers for us. I have now joined to find that schematics are consumables and you cannot mine on Alioth. Is there a post that explains why they did that? I assume it's so we don't have giant sink holes like before, but like.. maybe make a note on the tool so I don't spend 2 hrs searching. I am about to leave Alioth for the first time and attempt some safe zone Roid-runnin' and maybe hit a moon. I just got an advanced mining machine (industry? idk) and am going to test that out. I feel like the starry eyed new guy about to be smacked in the face with realization. I am hopeful that PVP brings some new life to this game for me as the mining machine should afford for more leisure time and dorking around in pvp zones as we wont be so strapped for cash / higher tier resources. I assume enough people cried about the difficulties of mining so thus the machines. If they actually got rid of mining and i just sunk a bunch of points back into it for no reason, then I am going to be upset. I hope this change is good and allows for sort of a balance. Those that are willing to mine and know how to will make more per hour than that of a machine, but with enough money, machines and space, you could over come this. However, this would still afford for the skilled old timer to manual labor and enjoy the fruits of their labor without being crowded out by surface gatherers. (entirely, obviously it would be competitive) I went heavily into industry and only the items which the talents I am close to max or maxed out on are viable to sell. The margins seem slimmer, but it all still seems doable. I have never been in a big org, so I am not sure what that looks like, but it seems like it has gotten harder and harder to be a solo / duo and try to make your own things. We have been relegated to surface gathering to make ends meat and trying to corner any market opportunity we can scrounge a profit from. I haven't tried out any missions yet, but most of the ones I saw were for nothing and were like, "Come check out our Voxel Library for free!" This isn't meant to be a complaining post by any means but more of a how much of this is true and how many of these are just whiners being whiners? I have big hopes for this game and hope to see it continue to grow. (also, is it just me or did we lose some planets?)

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