To Xordan:

I also think that it is not possible to let everybody dig everywhere because of the server and user bandwidth.
My idea was that the mines are fixed. And only the entrance is there or not. I don\'t know which protokoll and systems you are using in your game but i think that is the same like a door is open or a door is closed.
At the moment the world is to small and all people are to concentrated that this idea would work properly. But I think if the world is big enough and more cities are implemented you would have enough mines to limit the use of possible mines to open mines to about 25 Percent, so not always the same mines are used.
I would have no problem if all mines are always active, it\'s like now.

To Kaseijin:

I only noted NPCs for the mines, because i don\'t know if the guilds would also administrate the unprofitable mines for beginners. All other things should be organised by the guilds.

To Kronon:

At the moment you have only one way to sold ore. But I think there should be special traders for resources. This traders should adjust their price in relevance to their inventory. The inventory of the traders should reduce slowly.

At this point of game-realisation that system wouldn\'t work. But when more blacksmiths and other jobs are on the world they would process the ore and so the system would regulate itself.

Maybe there are quest for mining, so you have possibilities to sell more ore.

You will have the same problem with other resources.
Later if you can build your own weapons will you limit the amout of weapons in your inventory. Then it will be boring to walk back ten times to sell all things from an quest.

Only if you regulate the prices in relevance to the needs like in the real world such a system will work. If you limit all producing jobs no one will learn that, instead all people will only go for fighting.

A New Mining-System
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Comment
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I think the actual mining-system is not very good.
I play PS not for a long time, but i think it makes no sense to dig on some places in the world
till you have 10 pieces then sell it and repeat that until you have enough money.

I would prefer that you have somewhere outside of a town there is a mountain with a mining-station.
And it should also be more challenging to be a miner.
And more like a job and not like a hobby.

General
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On the world should be some mountain.
Next to it are some tents, NPC, ... -> I explain it at \'Surrounding\'.
The mountain has for example 25 Layers.
The mountain has two entries.
The first is for public entry, so everone can go an dig there.
The second is for people, which have a mining-right (restricted area).

Public Entry
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Here you go in, search an Layer where are less diggers
and you can dig -> I explain it at \'Digging\'.
In the public area you have bad chance to find it
for example 10% of the chance at the restricted area.
And you have to go down by stairs, so it is not very profitable.

Mining-Right
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Next to the mountain are the boss of the Mine.
You can go to him and buy a mining-right.
With that paper you go can pass through de restricted entry.
For every Layer are 5 mining-rights sold.
When you go through the entry you are teleported to your Layer.
It is important that always 5 people with nealy the same skill are together in a layer.
To make it fair to new players, the mining-right is only for 1/4 of a time-periode.
For example you can use it for a week in a month.
So you work one week, and the other time you can go for adventure.

By now one mountain is for 25 Layers * 4 Timeperiods * 5 Mining-Rights = 500 miners.
You can easily increase the number.

Digging
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One Layer is an area splitted in cubes.
You have a startpoint (teleporter or stair) from with you can dig in four directions.
You need some time till you finished an cube.
The time depends on your skill and on your tool.
With this methode you can dig tunnels through the layer.
Not in every cube is something to find.
You also have a chance to find some equipment (weapons, ...).
But you also can find some monsters.
All you find depends on the level of the layer.
It is important that when the rights are new to sold, that people are seperated by their skills
to gurantee that always equal skilled miners are in the propriate layers.

Now you would start do dig through the whole layer,
but when you dig not correct the instabil area will collapse.
For example tunnels that are 2 cubes wide, ....
The area should not be to large, that no other people are locked in the mine.
But the digger and maybe some near people will die.
And they loose the goods from this tour.
Maybe you have a bag that is to collect the ore and that bag is destroyed.

The layers are refreshed after every change of mining-rights
and after a collapse the small area is refreshed.

Every layer has a maximum of tunnels in percent.
That is an interesting fact for the public layers.
It will always be a risk to stay there for a long time,
because when many people dig, the layers will collapse often.
and so all people in the layer loose their goods.

Surrounding
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Next to a mine should be following:
- Salesman with mining-equipment
- Buyers for the goods
- Maybe some sponsors for digging-orders (to deliver xxx goods in xxx time)
- Trainers

Training
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1. You need a Trainer for level up.
2. You need theoretical knowledge.

At a Trainer you can buy books to learn about mining.
When you read a book you can browse through the book.
The book contains some nonsense, digging-rules and examples of tunnels.
The rules depends on the level of the book.
Always some of the possible rules are listed in the book.
When you finished the book you can\'t step back, you see 4 mining-plans.
2 plans are not correct to the rules.
1 plan is for a lower level.
1 plan is for your level.
After you selected a plan, the book is deleted.
When you selected the lover-level you get that plan as an scroll.
When you selected your level plan you get the scroll and rise one level.
Only when you know the older rules and the actual rules you will find the correct plan.

With the rules you know more and more how to get the maximum from one layer.
You can sell plans when you have that level already.

Mining-Plan
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A Mining-Plan alone is not useful, because you could trade it to lower-level-diggers.
When you enter a refreshed layer, you can use the plan at a board at the starting-point of the layer.
You keep the plan, but now the tunnel-system is readable for the 4 other miners in your layer.
When you dig exact like the plan, you get a bonus of xxx percent during the whole digging
and maybe a special thing when you fininshed it.

For example there can also be some small mines around the world.
and maybe also some treasure-hunting-mines.
There can be some right treasure-plans -> you get something special.
And also wrong plans -> you attacted by a strong monster.



Look down some messages for some additions.