Mining percentages........

Can we please raise the mining % by 5? its just 5% its really hard to enjoy the mining stuff when we fail so often!

 

I'd love to see all the crafting raised/made a bit easier... but as its tied to zone location it is trying to force a natural progression for where people farm (I supoose).

 

I am a glutton for punishment when it comes to mining, I guess? I don't mind failing for some odd reason.

Probably because I don't have to go look for another node if I fail

 

This from someone who has just managed to get enough nickel for a set of meteoric plate armour :
The harder life is in the beginning, the greater the sense of satisfaction when a goal is achieved. Yes it is frustrating but I for one enjoy the reward. I don't need an easier ride.

 

I'm happy with the percentage chance, it's the speed of the process that wears on me. I've levelled up a bit and it still seems dreadfully slow, so much so that I need to watch TV or read the forums at the same time.

I really don't think a game mechanic should be boring to the point where your attention is No longer in the game.

 

I agree with Woftam, While I am mining I am at my cellphone or the TV. Maybe if we do mining more interactive could be different

 

Have to agree with this one - I wouldn't have minded that they made it fail as often as they did if they increased the speed a bit to counteract it.

 

Ya...Mined all day...gained 2% from 41% to 43%...plus it's reallllly slow...I don't mind hard...but seems really really hard haha.

 

Not the success percentage needs adjustment, it's the time it takes to mine which needs adjustment.

 

I agree with lfalk, increase the time actually mining by 10-20% so one doesn't fall asleep while waiting for the result. Also, together with the increase or not, for each successive failure speed up the mining time so that each successive try is a bit faster than the previous try, but with less chance to get "bonus" materials as the trade off. You can also apply this to skinning animals and chopping down trees.

 

Would also be nice if the chat message showed when you succeeded. All those 'harvest failed' messages can be somewhat discouraging. I need a "you are getting better at this" message to pop up in my monitoring chat.

 

You feel there is hope...
ten failed harvest messages later
You feel there is hope...
twenty failed harvest messages later
You have given up on hope and now cling to sheer stubborn pride at beating the node.
thirty failed harvest messages later
Time to go to sleep... there is always tomorrow.

 

This would be useful - particularly if there are any inaccuracies in how the mining chance is being calculated.

 

Yes, and if the chat encouraged it,
fools that we are, we'd try harder, wouldn't we.

Nope, not there yet.
Keep on trying.
Almost had it, that time.
Just a little more.
Harvest has failed.
At least the level is going up!
Are you getting tired?
Maybe you should go do something else?
Tough gets going, you're going, going.
You're getting a little faster at this.
Look around and enjoy the scenery a bit
Put your back into it
One more time!
One more time again.
I know it'll be this one.
Did I just succeed?
Back to the grind.
SUCCESS! not....

and so on and so forth, yes?

 

Same here, it's incredibly boring so I find myself having to watch t.v. or play another game to not fall asleep lol.

 

If the percentage changed how will I catch up on all the documentaries I watch while mining?

 

I don't mind the current percentages as much as I mind the time it takes to harvest one node. 20-30 seconds per node seems extremely slow. If it is going to take that long, then progression should probably be accelerated to keep people motivated. I've lost most of my interest in crafting at this point with the time requirements. I was having fun when I could harvest enough material to craft a suit of armor after a few hours of playing. Now, after a several hours of playing, I have 4 iron ingots. So, hopefully in two weeks I will gather enough iron and copper to make a suit of armor.

 

100% yes. I'd love to see snarky comments from the game.

Seriously? You're still here? You could have hiked the appalachian trail in the same amount of time it took you to grab that copper ore... On to the next node.

 

They are forcing me to farm like a loser in a mine. I tried to be adventurous and get a copper near some elves in Greymark, and I simply could not mine it before a re spawn, it seemed. Spent an hour on it, since it was still good in my pocket from elves, but... seriously. The mining time just gets stupid. I had 50% success, too.

 

Your axe is dull, that must be it. I've been watching you for so looooong. Why don't you go sharpen it and come back? You know that there is a special recipie for doing that right? What do you mean you don't know it. All miners worth their coal know the recipie. No I can't tell you, I'm just a spirit talking mineral deposit. Good luck with figuring it out. Ill be here taunting the next miner.