The point is mining sux. But its the fkn basic of generating resources to build. U can buy ore? With what money? Where does the Money come from? There are no missions or other sources of money in the game. If u trade or offering services u get the money from other players. What means in the end u have two options. Doing boring mining or robbing others. What a scammer fest! It is just sad how New Players getting exploitet by the shidty ore prices. But in the end thats better than spending hours running through tunnels with a crap scanner and waiting for a circle to grow just to do a click afterwards. And repeat. For hours. Some may like this torture. Nothing wrong with that. But this cant be the base of the game. In the end only the hardcore player will stay and thats not the idea of a mmo.
The solution is simple. Make mining cool! Give us explosives or other cool gadjets to make it fun to do. Increasae the skills. Since even with lvl 4 of all related skills things get not better. Fix the scanner! Give it a option to pinpoint the ore node position with a 5 minute scanning delay. Whatever, but do something! Mining bots are ok as well. There is no difference in spending a hour to mine or waiting 5 hours to get the same amount by a mining unit. Thats all just a question of balancing. But by all means, stop forcing player to do this boring bullshidt. It only creates the deep wish to smash ur hardware.
First attempt at trying something outside the norm when it came to space ships, and decided to make my land speeder look like an actual old wooden boat that had been ugraded with a few minor techonlogies.
