Mining Injustices

[darkforaster]

I spend a lot of time in the mining guild as IÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢m *aiming* for level 85 rune mining. As a level 73 I have roughly 5 times the experience of a level 60. Yet , I find myself being beaten regularly by level 60-65 miners. A friend of mine I regularly mine with has level 92 mining and he tells me that lower level miners have a much greater chance of gaining the ore than a higher player. He was telling me about a time he was mining with a level 99 miner and he beat him 7 times out of 10 despite the huge gap in experience.

 

 

 

I think that some realism is involved. For example. If you swing a pickaxe at a normal rock, the rock won't break instantly. But swinging it multiple times it will eventually break. So with more than one pickaxe hammering down on it, breaks it quicker. Unfortunatley for us, that person's pickaxe was the one who brock the rock, therefore the ore is his. We just softened the rock up for him.

 

 

 

But this actually works to our advantage, as this means that the lower levels actually get some ore, making it fairer and the higher levels don't always win. But they win as well. This should prevent both sides from ranting. Unfortunately, higher levels usually do. Just because they lost the ore a few times.

 

 

 

In fact, jagex expect higher level miners to mine high leveled rocks so that lower levels can't intervene.

[Nedich]

^^Good points, but that comment about higher levels ranting more is not true as lower levels are always whinging when they don't get enough but I still think they get too much. Also if Jagex intended for us mine higher rocks they wouldn't make iron such high level exp, so I think thats a double standard!

[Halo_2_4_U]

I think there's a cap on what level you need to get the rock quickly. For example, the level cap for iron may be 50. If there was a level 50 miner and a level 99 miner, the outcome would be based purely on luck. Just a theory.