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I hate to rub salt in the wounds!

I will admit something here that I usually dare not in public.

I like to mine alone.

I know! I know! I am a horrible horrible person and an even worse glitch! It's just that the only times I mine I want to make a few extra currants/XP/FP really quickly! THE SHAME. THE HORROR. I think a lot of people think that co-op mining benefits ALL, and is a cup of freaking sunshine for everyone ,but in truth, since I have mining VI and get high yields... whenever someone mines with me I get considerably less sparkly. I know most will disagree with this but it is TRUE!

So I avoided Neva Neva and AB where mining newbs* and experts do not get rewarded based on merit but on who can click first (infact the "newbs"* are rewarded disproportionately higher than others) .As everyone in Forum suggested, I started going to less used streets in the deeps (wasting valuable impervious miner time walking from rock to rock, street to street).

However it seems no matter how far in the deeps or Callopee or WHEREVER I go I always have someone helping.WHICH IS GREAT ON PAPER.But, when there is a rock right next to me I wish there was a way to let my fellow glitchen know that I would prefer to mine alone if at all possible.

Maybe we can all decide if you see someone mining buttnekkid with darkskin and no ears that means they are feeling like breaking away from the pack and become a lone wolf for a while? Ideas? Thoughts? 

*By newbs I in know way mean to demean someone!It is just a way to explain someone who has limited mining skills as opposed to Mining VI.

Posted 13 months ago by Sperkle Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • That's nice and all, but have you considered that the glitchen mining with you don't care?  

    It's not that I prefer to mine alone OR in groups, I just prefer to go to the next rock and start mining, when I'm not camping certain zones with friends.  So if you would prefer I mine a different rock, feel free to go mine it yourself.  
    Posted 13 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well normally , I have people just follow me rock to rock? But I hate to be antisocial like...yo stop following me?
    Posted 13 months ago by Sperkle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I prefer to mine alone as well.  Yields seem much higher.  But I can't exactly say 'leave me be' as it is all up for grabs.  Finding secluded areas works for me.
    Posted 13 months ago by Dr. Babycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like mining alone too, but if a hoarde suddenly shows up and I get 8 extra chunks as a result that's pretty cool.  Sometimes I make friends like that.  However I do admit I prefer the silence.  ^_^'
    Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Did you ever consider that they are not following you but simply moving to the next closest rock of the style they want to mine?  It's not that far-fetched -- that's likely the reason you moved to that rock as well.  

    I'm not saying there's anything wrong with wanting to mine alone, just saying that you cannot control the behavior of others nor should you expect them to care if their behavior annoys you but isn't inherently wrong.   Change your behavior: let them continue mining the original rock and go mine another, go to a different zone, reverse directions.  But don't expect anyone to care that their presence annoys you when they have every right to be there too.  They might find your presence annoying.  
    Posted 13 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Write up little notes and drop them behind you.  They'll pause to read them and fall behind.

    I recommend something along the lines of

    I mine alone.
    With nobody else.
    You know, when I mine alone,
    I prefer to mine by myself!

    (etc)

    Of course they're free to ignore or catch up with you.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zauberberg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We need a special Lone Miner hat/mask.
    Posted 13 months ago by Osprey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here's a tip. Some advice. Mine in the morning. No one mines at 7:00 A.M. A strategy I use to keep being rich.
    Posted 13 months ago by ItsShoop Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I too enjoy mining on my own.... heck I enjoy doing many things on my own and leave the social stuff up to when I feel like it! I am not a total introvert but I think there is a time and place to be social... out mining is not it for me sorry!
    Posted 13 months ago by Casombra Amberrose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mining in groups does yield higher benefit PER ENERGY USED, but that's all. Definitely not worth the mob scene and aggravation, in my opinion.
    I still rather mine alone where I end up using more energy but the rock yield is far greater.
    Eating a pile of meats or clicking on an icon takes care of the energy consumption issue right quick.
    Shooper da Messy: don't tell people to mine in the morning, that's one of my fave times!
    Posted 13 months ago by airplay Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Like Shooper said, if you mine at a time when "few" people are online, you'll have no trouble finding spots to mine alone. I live in Europe so I admit to having a mining advantage time wise ^^;
    Posted 13 months ago by Souran Sweet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, let me get this straight: If I see you mining sparkly, and I want to mine sparkly too, you want me to not mine it? And vice versa, if you see me mining and you drank an earthshaker and need sparkly for currants and shiny elements, you won't mine the same rock? Dude, you're being selfish!
    Also, if it's currants you need, mine some beryl.
    Posted 13 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have been playing since beta when it was considered "discourteous" to mine anyone else's rock, and at first, I was a little irritated when it became acceptable to do so. Since then, I have come to enjoy the team spirit (corny, I know) of saying "hey there's sparkly up here!" and even enjoy sharing an amber now and then with whoever I am mining with. I do, however, understand your point as I also realize that what airplay says is true. I have to also admit that I always worry that someone I am co-mining with does not appreciate it (thus the sharing), so it WOULD be nice to have a "lone miner" helmet for those of us who DO care whether people prefer to mine alone. At the same time, I think TS has gone a long way to make it more acceptable to have co-miners and many players won't care whether you wish to mine alone or not. So, my point? I guess I think TS has gone as far as is possible to make an environment where we can all mine with fair returns, but I don't think there is an absolute perfect way to resolve this (as in the tree wars *sigh*). I guess I'll start asking, but that seems pretty tedious for the long haul.
    Posted 13 months ago by Hab Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I often enjoy mining with others.  But, sometimes I have a particular need and want as much ore as I can get therefore I don't want help.  I just finished a project that required a massive amount of Sparkly which is not easy to find.  I made a lot of earthshakers to help me in this.  Almost every time I found a Sparkly rock, 2 or more people would "help me".  I got less ore and my Earthshaker was wasted most of the time because there was not another rock to be had anywhere close.

    I was also an Alpha/Beta tester and remember when people would ask if they could "help".  That hasn't been seen by me in months.  It is hard to share a much needed rock with one person but now there are roaming crews of 2 or more who will jump in and take most of the ore.  Without help I usually get 50 rocks.  Today I checked and with help from one other I got about 43 so the sharing bonus did not benefit me.  We did take turns "helping" mine that rock.

    Now that I have finished my project (it took about a month with "help").  I no longer have an urgent need and do not mind sharing.  I do, however, miss the days when people would politely ask if they could help me.  I do still regret wasting Earhshakers because they are not easy for me to make.  I have Mining V.  If someone less "skilled" helps me they may not receive as much ore as I do.  If someone who is more skilled "helps" I will probably be wasting time and Earthshaker.

    I have no good solution.  Too bad there isn't a little sign over my head that at least says, "M5 with Earthshaker" - Lol!
    Posted 13 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, there is a solution - IX style underground caves!
    Posted 13 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • God to think of all the earthshakers I have wasted too.. thank god I can make them easy enough so it isn't a huge loss! This is another reason I really rather mine solo and usually try to find quiet times or quiet streets to do so.
    Posted 13 months ago by Casombra Amberrose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Its silly to drink earthshakers for only one rock, no other rocks nearby, fully aware of being in a public area where others jump on rocks like kids on candies, and complain about wasting it. Also if I start mining a rock it doesnt make it my rock.

    Yes Ive wished i could have rocks for myself alone, I do enjoy mining alone also, but I never considered it the other glitches'  fault that they happened to find the same rocks i did - public areas and public shareable resources and all. 

    And if i see a glitch mining a sparkly what I actually see is a sparkly i could mine and not a glitch in need of help, i wont skip it to find another rock, ,because my time is precious also and I have no guarantee whatsoever that the next sparkly wont have also a glitch mining it.

     If people started wearing mining hats as a sign to be left alone and other glitches actualy left them alone - or lets say that the hats actually make it impossible for the other glitches to touch that rock- pretty soon there would be groups of glitches running around the mines looking franticaly for untouched rocks they can start on. And id like to see how much benefit you get from the precious alone mining when you finish your rock and then waste much more time finding a new one to mine alone, again. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Merope Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rocks that spawn in our own homes would be a solution :)  I'd pay in credits to have sparklies form in my garden :D  

    I used to ask people if they wanted help mining, but only one ever said Yes. The others just didn't bother responding. So now, I just don't bother asking any more.  If it's sparkly, I'm mining it.  
    Yesterday, someone was just standing next to a rock. I stood for a little while... nothing. They didn't appear to be moving at all, so I started mining and they suddenly said "Go away!" ..." THIS IS MY ROCK!" and since they asked so politely... o_o ... I carried on mining until it was all gone.  If they'd been more polite, I would have been too. 
    If someone said "Please don't" or something polite like that, I'd be more than happy to leave them to mine solo.
    Posted 13 months ago by Ebiler Subscriber! | Permalink
  • " I'd pay in credits to have sparklies form in my garden"

    Cool idea. I would too, just for the sheer novelty. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just to be clear - there's not actually a mining VI now is there?!?
    Posted 13 months ago by Joan of Dark Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch is a community game...where the benefits/fun of the game is interacting/playing with others. Mining is part of the game and so is playing with community. Perhaps not the right game for those who like to do things on their own? Otherwise, telling others you don't want to mine with them probably won't make you many Glitch friends here. Just saying...
    Posted 13 months ago by Jojo Bloom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Apparently my original post was not read?

    I only mine like once a month so it isn't like a big deal.
    I'm not asking people to not mine-I'm asking when you join me at a rock and I go to the rock next to us to avoid you for you to not follow me.Or do! it is whatever but I know I never join ppl mining because I dont know where they stand *SO I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO TELL WHAT PEOPLES PREFERNCES ARE SO WE CAN ACT ACCOMMODATINGLY IF WE SO CHOOSE* (or if we need to mine with others, we can ignore it)That was more the point of my post :)

    Jojo...What glitch did I say I didn't want to mine with? The point of the post was to avoid doing so! Sometimes I want to grind out a couple sparklies on my lunchbreak and don't want to start convos I cant finish.I also dont want to be rude.I just thought the thoughtful touch of letting ppl know whether of not you are in NEED of help or in wanting to be left alone.

    Just throwing an idea out...nothing to scuffle over :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Sperkle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You have Mining VI?!?!
    Posted 13 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haven't you heard? It allows you to mine directly from Zille's nasal cavities.
    Posted 13 months ago by dr_loplop Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree with Merope - while I'm also hesitant to join in on mining, it would be impossible to avoid every rock that is being mined already. Even in Callopee or other secluded places. When I join in, I feel guilty because I'm afraid that people will be annoyed, so I try to just mine once or twice and move on, but at the same time I don't feel that running around for fifteen minutes just to mine one sparkly on your own (if mining others' rocks was somehow prohibited) is quite that time efficient as you may feel. I try to give out random kindness to those with whom I mine with.

    As to the Earthshaker - I don't always drink Earthshakers, but when I do, I mow over any and every rock in my vicinity.
    Posted 13 months ago by Jammie Dodger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Simple solution, if you like to mine alone, don't mine in areas like AB and NN where it's designed to be a group mining area. If you like to mine in groups, go to areas that mine in groups and/or don't complain outside of those areas when people don't wait. Everybody wins. If this happens, then nobody is telling anybody anything and there is no discrepancy. But whatever, some people are going to remain selfish and others are going to mine in groups, there is no winning this argument.

    When I want to mine alone, I do it away from the group areas and nobody complains to me for not waiting. When I want to mine in a group, I do that too... and nobody complains to me. It really is a simple solution, but some people will never learn. They may *think they are right, but that's about as far as it goes.
    Posted 13 months ago by Meez Mike Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Meez Mike I dont think anyone in this thread so far was talking about mining alone in AB or NN.
    Posted 13 months ago by Merope Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I mine alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    I mine alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    You know when I mine alone,
    I prefer to be by myself

    Every morning just before breakfast,
    I don't want no coffee or tea
    Just me and my good buddy Wiser,
    that's all I ever need
    'Cause I mine alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    Yeah, you know when I mine alone,
    I prefer to be by myself

    The other night I laid sleeping,
    and I woke from a terrible dream
    So I called up my pal Jack Daniel's,
    and his partner Jimmy Beam
    And we mined alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    Yeah, you know when I mine alone,
    I prefer to be by myself

    The other day I got invited to a party,
    but I stayed home instead
    Just me and my pal Johnny Walker,
    and his brothers Blackie and Red
    And we mined alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    Yeah, you know when I mine alone,
    I prefer to be by myself

    My whole family done give up on me,
    and it makes me feel oh so bad
    The only one who will hang out with me,
    is my dear old granddad
    And we mine alone, yeah,
    with nobody else
    Yeah, you know when I mine alone,
    I prefer to be by myself

    *Original song by George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers*
    Posted 13 months ago by Warrender Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When somebody joins, I just move to a new rock, and if the dolt follows me there, to the next rock.  I have on a few occasions run into someone who apparently subscribes to an ideology where they are compelled to always mine collectively and they continue following.  When that happens I teleport somewhere else.

    The 'bonus' was added to compensate (slightly) for the fact that someone else has joined in and you'll now be getting half as many ore blocks from mining that particular rock.  The 'happy shiney' collective part of it:  well, we're free to move on.  It isn't like this is the Ukraine and the frontier has been secured.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you want to mine alone, doing it at off hours from the general US night time gets you good result. Otherwise, my attitude toward mining is "Help me mine this rock so I can move to the next one quicker".
    Posted 13 months ago by Elly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Many of the areas that I mine are streets that have one to three rocks. So "moving on to the next one quicker" isn't practical. The goal is to keep mining whatever is on the street, for the gem yield as well as the ore. Off-peak hours are the best time to mine alone. Often during the busy times all you end up doing is running through a series of empty streets. A lot more people have figured out that shiney isn't the only thing worth mining, so it isn't as easy as it once was to find rocks available.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A little icon over the head of someone who has drank an Earthshaker might help a little bit. It doesn't solve the whole issue, but at least lets other miners know that this Glitch has probably laid out an optimal Earthshaker to rock path. I usually do this with dullite or metal rocks, not sparkly. Sparkly is just too difficult for anyone to resist, apparently.
    Posted 13 months ago by Garney Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I prefer to mine alone too, specially if I'm using earthshakers, but I don't see that's going to be possible, with so many players always in the mines. It's kind of sad to walk through empty mines streets, the rocks take too long to regenerate. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Natalia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hate mining with others, but there's no good way to tell others to shove off, since they already have it in mind that if it's a rock, it's theirs (and since the game sets it up that way, they're right).   It's annoying but whatever. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • some kind of earthshaker icon is an excellent idea, and would be well worth a post in the ideas forum!
    Posted 13 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you mine at high traffic times of day, there are not enough sparklies in any mining area for any one glitch to mine alone for more than one rock or two. Sharing is necessary. No one should be exempt.

    I'd like to have the Ancestral Lands all to myself too but I don't see that happening.
    Posted 13 months ago by Demyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am a mining newb (an everything Glitch related newb - really) and if I walked in on a glitch mining and there was a note at his feet that said they would rather mine solo, I would keep on moving until I found another rock.  

    Try it, see if it works :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Anjetta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't mind occasionally sharing with others, but there's a few times where I like being left to my own devices, and sometimes I do get that chance and I'm glad for it. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be alone sometimes, it's human nature, but in a game that encourages people to help one another, it's not nearly as impossible as everyone thinks. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
    Posted 13 months ago by Ayasta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sharing is most definitely not necessary. Anybody can exempt themselves from needing to share by moving on to another area. Personally I have little interest in sparkly rock, beyond keeping enough of it to make several powders I use a lot of (*twitch*.) I've never, ever, sold or donated the raw ore, just thinking about doing so makes me feel scratchy inside (*twitch*.) So I don't generally have to deal with the 'collective mind' people who camp out in the high-Sparkly regions. When an area gets crowded or someone insists on 'mining together' I move on to a new area. There are a shocking number of areas of Ur with rich resources where almost nobody ever mines. It's also fun sometimes to go to the high-sparkly areas exclusively to mine dullite. Other miners flit around like dragonflies not doing much mining at all while I reap gem after gem.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Miners are still just players, anything a miner does, is something that player would do if they were a digger etc.

    My mining is only level 3 so everyone mines faster than me, no one ever waits for me to finish mining before they mine that rock again, usually I am lucky to mine 3 times while they mine the rock to extinction. I never complain cause what is the point? if it was them mining slower, I wouldnt wanna hang around either. plenty of rocks for everyone. people need to relax and stop taking it all so seriously.
    Posted 13 months ago by Jehannum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ive really come to dislike mining with others.  I don't have tons of time to play, so I like just getting my sparkly alone and quickly. I kinda changed my playing style so I don't require that much sparkly anymore, so I can just go mine the other types, including metal which doesn't get much love from the "helpers" and gets skipped over for sparkly most of the time.
    Posted 13 months ago by EzBreezy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wish there were a way to transmute extra red, green, or blue to shiny element. The only reason I mine is to craft shrine powder.  I'd happily mine dullite and beryl if I could somehow get shiny elements from them.  I know I can sell my excess dullite and beryl and buy sparkly at auction, but to me the fun in Glitch is gathering my own crafting materials. Any Zim fans?  "I made it myself!"

    Like other folks with Mining IV, given a choice I do strongly prefer to mine alone. The time-consuming part of mining is finding sparkly rocks, not mining them. The 2-3 extra chunks I get from a 'helper" is small consolation for losing half the sparkly rock and having to go hunting again.  Despite my preference, I also agree with other folks that it's not fair to try to claim a rock.  I fully expect others to join me on a rock and I hop on sparkly when I see it.  A handful of sparkly is better than nothing.

    As for earthshakers, I drink them for beryl and dullite.  I don't bother with sparkly because I never know when a conga-train of Glitchen is going to hop on the rock I'm working on.
    Posted 13 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Parrow, sharing is necessary. Moving onto another area only works if there is an area that does not have miners looking for what you're looking for, which is not realistically always the case.

    Look at it this way: there are ~250 sparkly rocks in Glitch right now. If 251 Glitchens want to mine sparkly at the same time, then sharing will be necessary if you want sparkly.

    Granted, it's probably not usually the case that we have a full 250 Glitchens mining, but when you take into account spawn times, the fact that many rocks are locked behind doors, etc. there are often less sparkly rocks at a time than people looking for them. At high traffic times this seems to be the case in all three mining areas. Not to mention that if I'm mining Callopee, a sparkly rock spawning in Ilminskie isn't really going to help much.
    Posted 13 months ago by Demyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "I hate mining with others, but there's no good way to tell others to shove off"

    All the lonely people
    Where do they all come from?
    All the lonely people
    Where do they all belong?

    Ah, look at all the lonely people


    ?
    Posted 13 months ago by juv3nal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll extend my argument further and say that nothing is necessary. But specifically regarding mining, sharing is also not necessary. I am not going to post location names because I don't want crowds suddently taking over the area, but there are multiple locations in the game that I frequent regularly where I quite often find sparkly rocks that nobody else is mining, and that I mine to completion on my own.

    Now if you're going to crowd into the boring mainstream 'mining regions' you are right, there will always be someone else breathing down your neck. But those areas are tedious.

    "this seems to be the case in all three mining areas."

    There's the problem. There aren't just three mining areas. There are many other streets in the game with rocks on them. And when you discount the fact that there aren't twelve other people hustling around trying to mine them at the same time as you are, the fact is that the rocks on said streets may be fewer, but the yield is the same or greater.

    The only reason I hesitate to type these comments into the forum is that I prefer a lot of the miners to stay crowded into 'the three only areas in Ur worth mining in.' In particular it's good to keep a certain social element contained in the two 'special locked areas' frantically mining away together. Yes, you all need to mine together. It's the only way. Don't even think about mining anywhere else! Chase the sparkly! Whee!
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • By three main mining areas, I meant Ilminskie, Callopee and Pollokoo. I probably mine some of the same streets you do, because I do most of my mining on side streets where I frequently find sparkly rocks all to myself.

    But sometimes I don't find sparkly rocks all to myself! Sometimes I'm mining at a high traffic time and basically every rock in Callopee has miners waiting to pounce on it. Sharing isn't necessary in the sense that mining sparkly or playing Glitch at all isn't necessary, but if there are more miners bouncing around Callopee than there are rocks to satiate them, welp.

    It's funny you assumed I meant Ajaya or Neva though. Wouldn't touch those places if you paid me in walloping big diamonds. My mining teleport spot is a side street of Callopee.
    Posted 13 months ago by Demyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would never ask anyone to leave even though I might wish it.  We all certainly have access to most of the rocks but some may not be able to get into a locked area.  Lately, due to a disability, I cannot play as much as I wish and can only play sporadically when my health problem permits.  I try hard to get my projects finished when I can play but sometimes it just takes too long.  That is my problem, not anyone else's and I certainly do not expect anyone to figure that out and step aside. 

    I never use an Earthshaker if there is only one rock.  I drink it if I see two or more rocks and no other players but often after I drink it these traveling groups come onto the street and mine everything including the rock I am working on.  I just wish that if you are mining in a group that the group be more sensitive to the needs of others and not take every rock on a street.

    I live in the US and try to mine in the wee hours of the morning.  This is often a good time and there seem to be fewer miners about.  I have found a couple streets that seldom have anyone on them and I have also discovered a place where keys spawn that few people seem to have also found.  Those are good things (no, I am NOT telling my secrets - Lol!).

    I have seldom "helped" anyone and do not if I have no special need.  For my recent project I did "help" 2 or 3 others.  I also gave out Earthshakers to  those I helped when I had more than one in inventory and once gave my last Earthshaker.  This is something you may consider if you often join someone.  I have also given Awesome Stew or some such high energy food.
    Posted 13 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't use Earthshakers much anymore. It ends up being a waste unless I'm very certain that the mines are relatively empty. 
    I don't mind people mining with me, and generally co-op mining for me involves people I know in very familiar areas and a lot more socialization than pure currant-driven mining; but if I do happen to want to mine alone, like at the end of a 15-16 bag run, I'll find a spot with lots of rocks and wait it out. There are quite a few streets you can hang out in for a few minutes and end up with 2 or 3 huge rocks, if you have a bit of patience.
    As far as worrying about whether or not to help somebody mine, I don't. Guaranteed if they happened across me mining a rock by my lonesome they'd jump in, no questions asked, so I don't at all feel bad about it. If somebody asks me to step off, sure. But the mines are public, and ultimately, you have to plan on whoever happens to stumble across you helping you. 
    The only time people "helping" me sets me off is when it's a large horde of locusts stripping everything off the ground regardless of anybody else mining in the room. That's a situation where "co-op mining" seems more to mean, "Well, there are 50 of us and 2 of you, so we're gonna cooperate amongst ourselves and the rest of you can get lost." Might not be the intent, but that's often how it comes across.
    Posted 13 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Its funny, as soon as I posted on this thread, I went into the game to mine my metal. I was on a street with 10 metal deposits and about 2 other players. Everytime I hoped on a rock, someone decided to help me. I left as soon as my single pick action was done and they could have the rock to themselves. I thought they would get the idea after I left 2 rocks after they started "helping"  I mean, come on! The metal rocks are right next to each other and no one was mining.  I should have said something, but I had a 1 baby on my lap and was just using the mouse to play. 

    Jeez...

    Sorry, I'm just in a generally bad mood today...
    Posted 13 months ago by EzBreezy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Demyx: Yes, I meant the same thing by the 'three big mining areas' as you did.

    I mostly mine in areas completely outside Ilminskie, Callopee and Pollokoo.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
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