Raiivein

Bolus vs Basal Automated mining is Basal. Slow continuous predictable drip. I have no problem with that. Bolus is the large amount peak for immediate need. They are eliminating Bolus except for PVP asteroids. That is my complaint. Sure having auto miners that allow my friends that log in a few times a week feel productive great. But when we want to build rare engine super hauler, we get in the hole and start digging until we are done. No longer an option. There is more ore on any hex on Madis then any asteroid. But now we have to go fly out into space and compete for the simplest of resources if we want more than the slow drip. We will need to risk our ships just to be able to build ships.

I can mine 100k an hour free farming on any planet, on a super I can mine 400k an hour if it is tier 1. I had a Saturday that I mined nothing but supers for 18 hours. We had quite the backlog.

We have over 7000 scans, we worked hard for those scans, but you don't want to give us an advantage, fine. I have totally maxed mining and terraforming talents. I can get through the dirt and mine literally millions of liters of ore a day, by myself. Under the new structure, with limited calibrations, how can anyone with 1 account ever hope to amass anything? I have 6 accounts. All six accounts calibrating synergized mining units will take more than a week to mine what I can mine in an hour now, free mining on any planet. Unless you plan to DRASTICALLY reduce material costs or enact a way for us to mine more efficiently with our own time investment, you are setting a hard cap on what can be mined that is minuscule compared to what we can mine now. And now we have to pay taxes to even mine. And asteroids in PVP space is not a replacement for planetary mining. Also why are you refunding mining talents if you can still use them on asteroids? I understand you had a database issue, believe me my high end computer struggled to dig what I dug. But you have gutted the core game play of this game and created a hard cap on the resources an individual or small group can gather while increasing the cost to do so. I think our manual mining single scoop record is about 525L. Please tell me how going from 300-400 tier 1 every 5 seconds is going to be replaced by 100L an hour? I guess if I only mined 3 minutes a day it is an improvement. But as someone who's personal record was almost 6 million ore in one day, your new system leaves a lot to be desired particularly from those that are will to put in the time and effort to get ahead. Your new system will promote lots of accounts and afk game play. May be good for subscription sales, but is horrible for the game in the long run. All hexes will be claimed. Then after you finally get a good hex you will enact pvp and make us defend it 24/7. You all have your sights set right down the crapper and are destroying the gather/crafting aspect of this game which draws the majority of your existing fan base. You want to cater to the PVP community because PVP games have the highest player base. Problem is your PVP interface is frankly boring. Compared to the likes of Elite Dangerous PVP feels more like an arcade game and less like a space simulator. Frankly I don't care about PVP besides the obvious and inevitable march towards PVP everywhere with making it very difficult to manufacture what is needed to even PVP effectively. So mine forever to make items that you will allow anyone to destroy. Add a tax because you can't figure out how to create a functional economy. Having bots buy ore sets a cap on what anything is worth. Make it difficult to mine and the cost of ore goes through the roof making the manufacture of anything not worthwhile. I hardly play this game anymore if it is because of the pending operations while digging the the dirt or because I see the writing on the wall that you a making a slow methodical march towards and all out PVP MMO when that is not the community that is bolstering your subscriptions. Sure watching someone that talks like a used car salesman that has had too much coffee create explosions on the screen is more fun to watch then the player that spends days, weeks even months mining and creating structures and ships that I know you will eventually allow the first to annihilate the second in the hopes it will sell more subscriptions. Good luck with that.