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We need a new place to mine.

Before I get spreadsheeted and efficiency-quotiented to death, I'm not talking about bloody Ajaya Bliss. It is what it is. I'm talking about the density of players everywhere else in the Deeps. It's getting ridiculous, to the point where 8 people are mining a single dullite (that's not an exaggeration, either, I just watched it happen). I would say we're approaching our fire-marshal capacity in the Deeps, and it seems like either a good-size expansion or (more preferably to my mind) a completely different cavern complex is sorely needed.
ETA: This is also not about "anti-sharing", "anti-competition", or any of those other epithets that get thrown around, either- this is about such severe lag, I take 10 minutes to get from one side of a room to another, and there being fewer and fewer rocks to mine (since, when you get to a room, there are probably 8 or 9 people who've well cleared the room already).

Posted 15 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I think it would be really cool if places like Ajaya Bliss were instances, or like a raid in other MMOs. Where you could go into the public one like you can now, or form a group(each area behind a door could have a player limit/requirement) and go into your own instance of the map, where only you and your group would be! 

    It could be turned into a mini-game where the amount of resources harvested would be recorded for that group and have it's own leaderboard! That would be super fun!

    There would have to be a lockout, though. If you could create a group and do this all of the time, that's where everyone would be. So maybe have it where you can do each area once a game day and the game time would be 20-30 real world minutes(You would get kicked out and/or the nodes would stop spawning after the timer ran out).
    Posted 15 months ago by Malero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Malero +1. That might be a good solution to the current situation. Great thinking.

    We do need more mines though, since more and more players are coming in. It is getting pretty packed (and laggy) in there.
    Posted 15 months ago by Zurin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm sure the development team is very busy with the game being released very recently... So I think that this could be a good solution in terms of the time and resources it would take to complete. All of the art is done already, so it would only take a few hundred(hehehe) lines of code to develop. 

    I love it when people tell me how hard it will be and the time it will take develop something. ;) But they already have instances(the race/challenge quests), so that's why I think it would be fairly easy to implement.
    Posted 15 months ago by Malero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • stoot wrote a few hours ago: "a new mining hub is in development, and mining areas inside group halls are on the drawing board"
    Posted 15 months ago by Ximenez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't wait for group halls... A new place to mine will be fun!
    Posted 15 months ago by Malero Subscriber! | Permalink