[imported_Dotjr]

Just curious how staff and other players feel about this. I always played on shards where the mine was unguarded so having it guarded is an extreme luxury.

comments?

[imported_Swanny]

theres nowhere for anyone to prectice this if theyre a newbie. Every other skill can be practiced guarded but mining cant. As it is I've already come across an afk stripminer and 3 mines that have 2 or 3 miners and someone guarding them and also have been pk'd wallmining 3 or 4 times outside guard protection. If there was no guarded mining area then the guilds would control mining rights and no newer players would stand a chance at mining.

[imported_Fast Fred]

Yea that is no good, I always remember minoc mine being guarded, gotta give us miners some kind of a chance!

[imported_Northern]

Yes, it's not this much of a luxury. Think about it: Minoc mine is a middle sized mine, FOR TENS OF PLAYERS MINING TOGETHER!!
So, some people stay in the mine but some are simply forced to go to the unguarded mine. If it was a huge mine to house all the players comfortably, then yes it'd be too "carebear" but lots of people look for alternatives, so it's ok to have this mine protected.

[imported_Escobar]

what Northern is saying i agree 100% I always find it being overcrowed and no ore too find, so I usally get up early LOL 4-5ish in the morning when no one is there. But its a good way for people to get started, i always start in the mine till i got enough for regs and armor, even a house, then move up in the world!

[imported_Dotjr]

Sounds good to me, I was just curious on what other people thought.

[Galens]

Making half of Minoc mines unguarded is a better approach. It still gives a huge risk to mining, and still the option to wall of themselves from danger.

[imported_Dotjr]

I always thought i was funny going to minoc, arriving only to see 5 dead miners and basically saying " Opps...I must be at the wrong mine" and then proceeding to the newb dungeon to kill something. Heh.

[imported_Odium]

wait for them outside of the mine

[imported_Tabion]

I'm 50/50 on this topic. As a result of that I say make the amount of ore that can be mined there half of what can be mined elsewhere.

[imported_Nemo]

Make a nooby city,

Add a mine, make it guarded.

[imported_Apollo]

I'm 50/50 on this topic. As a result of that I say make the amount of ore that can be mined there half of what can be mined elsewhere.

that and also no rares above a certain ore... that why people have to go else where to mine saphire