I think it should be possible to spot minable places (rock) If you have equipped a pickaxe the pointer should turn into a pickaxe over those places. with rightclick you can choose between mine and prospect.
Minable places not contains ore for certain. (thats what prospect is for) This would also solve the problem how to put the mining in the GUI.

You have to say something to him (whatever)
Like written  here:
http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=8603&boardid=11
The Devs wont implement a gui for it. (Some textadventure fanatics)

@grand_diablo
you also can out \"uses up a lot of CPU-Time\" to the negative points of text based list.

Originally posted by hook
english langage is actually pretty simple ...and the AI doesn\'t actually need to understand all of it ...just understand sentences - you can understand someone speaking a totally foreign language even if you\'re not good at it, right?

Don\'t be too optimistic. Technically English is one of the easier languages, but you can say the same thing on tons of ways.

Ex: the Blacksmith/Gold Ore quest:
- Here is your ore.
- Is this enough ore ?
- I give you the ore.
- I have it.
- I mined it.

Those 5 sentences (I skipped variations of them by different wording) are completely different, in sense and wording, but all leads to the same: giving the ore to the smith. (If I thought more than a single minute over it, I\'m sure I easyly could create 10-12 of them, without duplicates in the sense. - And this is just a cheap give-ore-to-smith-task.)

The fast-click-through-problem can be reduced a lot if you don\'t give the reader the 50 pages epic story with a yes/no at the end, but a way to choose details to read by itself. Whith a good choose on the detail hirarchy the user didn\'t get bored on details which aren\'t interesting (to the user).

Greetings

same problem here (on Windows)  the updater downloads itself, but don\'t update itself.
It also uncompressed the new files, but don\'t replaced the files