EvilestOverlord

Ah, well I was getting zero base production and having all the resources drained from the resource pool from the  hex  I will check the units to make sure it is not a second unit that I did not recalibrate, but I am pretty certain I only had one unit producing coal in the hex.  If it is the only one in the hex, I found a bug.  But before I go there I will check and be sure there are no other units producing.  I am using Miner S's 

I moved to sanctuary with all my shit. and that was alot of shit.  I am very annoyed with this game.  I'll claim a few tiles just to loot my fellow players.  But then I am leaving the game.  Dementor was a horrible release.

I moved to sanctuary with all my shit. and that was alot of shit.  I am very annoyed with this game.  I'll claim a few tiles just to loot my fellow players.  But then I am leaving the game.  Dementor was a horrible release.

I moved to sanctuary with all my shit. and that was alot of shit.  I am very annoyed with this game.  I'll claim a few tiles just to loot my fellow players.  But then I am leaving the game.  Dementor was a horrible release.

yeah it is looking like NQ is killing the game intentionally.

The Evilest Overlord Speaks On the Subject of the Suicide pact known as Demeter.
 
 
 I like to mine.  In fact I am miner 49er (cause football), miner 69er (cause I dig on chicks), and miner 89er(cause gummers)  all wrapped up in one.  When I get home from work, I like to settle down with a beer and mine for a couple hours.  It is relaxing to mine, get my dopamine hit, mine some more, get another dopamine hit, repeat.
 
The video used the excuse that people do not want to mine as a primary reason for the mining change.  Then later it was brought up there is a serious technical issue invoving the growing tunnels from all the minning that the players are doing.    So now we are looking at one of the most important aspects of the game being RADICLY Changed.  
 
Since NQ gave us access to preview, I decided to take them up and set up some auto miners on the PTS.  
 
First, I have to congradulate who ever made the  "mini game".  I have never see a interface that had absolutely NO intuitive controls and added nothing to the over all game.  I think we should rename it from the "mini game" to "Mini Tourture Device".  It is so bad, I think it may have broken the Nuremburg laws.  I know I am keeping a copy to put right next to the pear of discontnent in my personal dungeon.  The MTD does not make autominners anymore entertaining or even worth it.
 
Second,  I have no real objection to the auto miners as a secondary way to mine, or an alternate way for people who do not like mining.  However they need to be able to mine all tiers of ore no mater what tier the auto minner is.  This is to give everyone parity, I can currently go to any planet and mine any tier of ore if I can find it.  That can not be done with the current auto-minner set up.  I do think that one should get a bonus for having higher tier machines.  Say either a quantity bonus, a speed bonus or both.
 
Third, get rid of the max draw for the pool.  Make the quantity mined based on the unit tier and skill levels of the player.
 
Fourth, I never got a surface ore deposit while I was using the AM's.  Unless each rock is several hundred liters, don't bother, If I wanted a day one minning experience, I would walk out and pick up surface rocks for a couple hours.
 
Fifth, While I was using the auto minners I placed links to a single container from three minners each mining different ores and only the first one got deposited in to the container.  The second and third miner both went in to negative time for the next cycle.  It was very weird.  I also had problems making my miners work on top of my mountain base.  When i put it on the snow cap, it would not start since it was not with in 50 meters of the ground.  I would find ores while mining the snow so why does the auto miner work in the same ?   Do I have to dig down to dirt to make these work.  I am happy to mine out a big tunnel to set up my autominners.
 
Lastly, I think you should solve the technical issue instead of changing the mining.  I think if a tunnel has not been used in a week it should "collaps" and refill with what ever material it originally had during maintanence.  Larger ore cavities should take longer and be replaced with ore laiden soil.   So as we mine out the original ore we can set up auto minners to mine the trace ores.  And you reduce the load on the servers all at once.
 
All voxel based games have three pillers, Mining Voxels, building with Voxels, and doing things with the Voxels you built.  Take any part of this a way and the game will fail.
 
 

The Evilest Overlord Speaks On the Subject of the Suicide pact known as Demeter.
 
 
 I like to mine.  In fact I am miner 49er (cause football), miner 69er (cause I dig on chicks), and miner 89er(cause gummers)  all wrapped up in one.  When I get home from work, I like to settle down with a beer and mine for a couple hours.  It is relaxing to mine, get my dopamine hit, mine some more, get another dopamine hit, repeat.
 
The video used the excuse that people do not want to mine as a primary reason for the mining change.  Then later it was brought up there is a serious technical issue invoving the growing tunnels from all the minning that the players are doing.    So now we are looking at one of the most important aspects of the game being RADICLY Changed.  
 
Since NQ gave us access to preview, I decided to take them up and set up some auto miners on the PTS.  
 
First, I have to congradulate who ever made the  "mini game".  I have never see a interface that had absolutely NO intuitive controls and added nothing to the over all game.  I think we should rename it from the "mini game" to "Mini Tourture Device".  It is so bad, I think it may have broken the Nuremburg laws.  I know I am keeping a copy to put right next to the pear of discontnent in my personal dungeon.  The MTD does not make autominners anymore entertaining or even worth it.
 
Second,  I have no real objection to the auto miners as a secondary way to mine, or an alternate way for people who do not like mining.  However they need to be able to mine all tiers of ore no mater what tier the auto minner is.  This is to give everyone parity, I can currently go to any planet and mine any tier of ore if I can find it.  That can not be done with the current auto-minner set up.  I do think that one should get a bonus for having higher tier machines.  Say either a quantity bonus, a speed bonus or both.
 
Third, get rid of the max draw for the pool.  Make the quantity mined based on the unit tier and skill levels of the player.
 
Fourth, I never got a surface ore deposit while I was using the AM's.  Unless each rock is several hundred liters, don't bother, If I wanted a day one minning experience, I would walk out and pick up surface rocks for a couple hours.
 
Fifth, While I was using the auto minners I placed links to a single container from three minners each mining different ores and only the first one got deposited in to the container.  The second and third miner both went in to negative time for the next cycle.  It was very weird.  I also had problems making my miners work on top of my mountain base.  When i put it on the snow cap, it would not start since it was not with in 50 meters of the ground.  I would find ores while mining the snow so why does the auto miner work in the same ?   Do I have to dig down to dirt to make these work.  I am happy to mine out a big tunnel to set up my autominners.
 
Lastly, I think you should solve the technical issue instead of changing the mining.  I think if a tunnel has not been used in a week it should "collaps" and refill with what ever material it originally had during maintanence.  Larger ore cavities should take longer and be replaced with ore laiden soil.   So as we mine out the original ore we can set up auto minners to mine the trace ores.  And you reduce the load on the servers all at once.
 
All voxel based games have three pillers, Mining Voxels, building with Voxels, and doing things with the Voxels you built.  Take any part of this a way and the game will fail.