Post#1 » 19 Jan, 2015 1:56 pm

First off let me start by saying this looks like a very promising game, I've followed this very early, but only recently had the time to follow up on it, luckily for me it was available on SteamMainly I love the complexity of the different tradeskills, mining, crafting, hunting especially. I can see crafting is pretty much the backbone of the game, which IMO is how it's supposed to be. Hunting (PVE) is what it has always been, and probably always will be..The mining part however isn't exactly where I'd love to see it, it's very repetitive and boring over time, it't not really presenting any challenges.I don't know where the game has found it's inspiration but I can assume a mix between several, when it comes to mining, most games have it wrong in my opinon. But there is one game which really made a dedicated miner worth it (IMO), this game is now called Entropia Universe (earlier Project Entropia). The way this game did it was really fun and addictive for me as a player back then, it presented a challenge and also different techniques for gathering.I'm going to try to explain how it was back then, and hopefully someone other than me will be inspired.Basically mining was a ore (or energy) detector and bombs (or probes). Bombs cost X amount of credit. Ore was invisible over the ground, but under the ground there was clusters, veins stretching for anything from short to long distances. Usually one (or a few) types spawned in one area, but not fixed to the exact same spots each time, but within a 5minutes walk , deposits varied from tiny to very huge, meaning that basically you mined just to get even, and if you where lucky you'd hit the jackpot and come home with a profit. In order to claim a deposit, you'd have to be within 5m of it, thats where the arrow indicators on the ore / energy detector comes in play, you'd have to navigate to it, and press claim.As for extraction you'd use a ore extractor which was pointed to the claim rod (placed automatically when claiming).The range of the scanners varied (along with optimal depth), but for the sake of the story lets say scanner range is 40meters. This meant that a typical day of mining was:Run outside the city, to an area you believe may hold some ore, drop a bomb, if no hit, continue for 20-30 seconds, then drop another, continue and repeat untill you find something.Then the fun part comes, trying to discover if it's more than just this simple deposit. As earlier 40m is range, meaning that you'd (or I atleast) walked 70 meters in any direction and drop another, if nothing, run to any of the other directions and see if luck changes there. By repeating this method you'll eventually discover if this deposit continues to a vein, cluster or whatnot..Did a simple youtube search, this ofcourse is a much newer version and the part where you claim has changed, but the basics are the same.[BBvideo 560,340]https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RRUqx4KYkg [/BBvideo]I believe this might actually bring mining to some exitement into mining, other than right clicking a rock in nature three times and moving a few meters onto the next one.Sorry for any typos, I wrote this at work and boss watching my screen so, I tried to finish up as soon as I could.