Nation Mines are Back

[River 555]

 

 

 

 

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Greetings, everyone,

The staff has long been aware—and equally discontent—with the current state of material gathering. Between the introduction of the new wild-node system, the scaling back and removal of owned-tile resources, unbalanced drop rates and yields, and the unintended grind of wild-node runs taking hours at a time, we recognize that the process has become tedious and discouraging for many players.

We’re happy to announce a few key adjustments that are simple to implement and widely supported by the community.

1. Reintroduction of Nation Mines
The first change is the return of Nation Mines, which will host all nation-owned tile resources. This should make gathering materials significantly more convenient, reduce time spent on resource collection, and ensure that nations have easy access to the materials they rightfully control—at greater quantities than before.

2. Increased Owned-Tile Resource Yields
The second change is a doubling of the drops obtained from owned-tile resources. Instead of the current eight ores every eight hours, players will now receive sixteen ores in the same timeframe.

To encourage participation and creativity, the Community Team will be hosting a Nation Mine Build Contest to facilitate the return of nation mines alongside these changes and to motivate players to construct their mines.

Please continue to share your suggestions, feedback, and experiences as these updates roll out. Your input will help us evaluate the effectiveness of these changes and guide future improvements based on player sentiment.

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Note: The changes to ore drops will occur near the end of the competition cycle, or prior to once every nation has a nation mine, and determined where the ores in their mines will go. This will ensure no one nation is hindered, or at an unfair advantage when it comes to ore drops. As well as determine a day when all the region flags can be redone so everything transitions smoothly.

[sam33497 7356]

Can you just buff the drops now man what dose that have to do with a contest

[wolfdwg 2677]

Wild that we have to wait for changes to a system the whole community loathes. Tone deaf as always.

[PrinceJose270 1211]

Good to see nation mines are coming back!

[sam33497 7356]

Please fly around and buff the nodes right now. You might experience a fraction of the pain of the mining runs we forced our fleeps to do.

[Turbo_Dog 3566]

“I use to pray for times like this.”

[KamikazeReaper 457]

no longer shall i live on barely 8 iron bars a day!

[DancingZebra267 1626]

We're on the right track... next bring back the use of lava for fuel.

[Ramon 5186]

node drops being buffed asap rather than after the contest wld be preferable, I'm tired of doing hours long lasting mining runs and returning with little more than literal scraps. I'm otherwise content with the promised changes tho 

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

lmfao 20 minute fix layered in red tape of making the CT look like they’re doing their job with nonsense contests.

 

double drops for all and all the problems are fixed…

[Borin 7645]

Tone deaf and dumb.

[boom4564 6]

The children yearn for the mines

[Tk4522 504]

YES YES OH GOD YES. 

 

FINALLY 

[TheosVult 392]

Thanks! Excited to see the mine designs... would love to see at least one real tight cave diving experience.
 

Spoiler

 

[Baccaaa 490]

Took long enough, now let's follow on this track and remove coal requirement from smelting