Goonhub
02-28-2016, 04:41 PM
Are you guys actually serious about the new z level thing? We might need to do that, or expand the ones we have, later -- but it's not worth the lag for random ores.
I'm not opposed to random ores (provided they don't add to the lag); I just think it's silly. If you actually want to mine then the magnets (there's even one on z3 if you build it, which isn't hard) are vastly superior. If you just want to fuck off in space then you aren't really going to mine. Maybe if miners actually had value I would understand. As it stands - no job, save Sec, has any real responsibility. The reason for this is that we are all so critically incompetent that the station would fall apart if one iota of reliance was held upon us... but I digress.
In the end I'd rather give the miners a reason to mine. Erev brought up good ideas. Mining could also become 'the pod job' since they rely on them so much now. Making it easier to pimp out their pods with some new paint schemes and new attachments. Or, unpopular idea incoming, make it where they actually have to work for indy suits - or tie them in with material science.
I'm not opposed to random ores (provided they don't add to the lag); I just think it's silly. If you actually want to mine then the magnets (there's even one on z3 if you build it, which isn't hard) are vastly superior. If you just want to fuck off in space then you aren't really going to mine. Maybe if miners actually had value I would understand. As it stands - no job, save Sec, has any real responsibility. The reason for this is that we are all so critically incompetent that the station would fall apart if one iota of reliance was held upon us... but I digress.
In the end I'd rather give the miners a reason to mine. Erev brought up good ideas. Mining could also become 'the pod job' since they rely on them so much now. Making it easier to pimp out their pods with some new paint schemes and new attachments. Or, unpopular idea incoming, make it where they actually have to work for indy suits - or tie them in with material science.