i'd have to say that you have either a large amount of ping to that server you are on, or just extramely bad luck. when i was getting my mining up i stumbled on the path of a guy who had lvl 91 mining (and he was at top 18 f2p's i believe, but no names mentioned) and still managed to beat him to it, because of my faster connection. i suggest you to get to a server closest to you for the least ping possible.

You're both right.

 

 

 

I'm 89 mining, and I mine mostly in mining guild (coal), and crafting guild (silver and gold).

 

 

 

With coal, I will generally mine it very fast, if no-one else is hitting the same rock. If everyone keeps to their own rocks, I can easily mine 4 coals in the time it takes another miner to get one. But if other coal miners start hitting my rock, then all of a sudden the success rate seems to drop down to their level for both of us. So it'll take me 4 times as long (their speed) to get coal, if other miners keep hitting the same rock as me.

 

 

 

Silver and gold are a totally different story; I'm not sure why. I suppose they might be coded differently. I don't think it's their level, since silver is below coal, gold above coal, and I'm quite well above all three. But, with silver and gold, level does seem to matter. I will get the ore much more often if I'm a high level competing versus a lower level.

 

 

 

Mithril seems to work a lot like silver and gold, but addy and rune ... less so. Then again, addy and rune are still relatively close to my mining level, so that might factor in, as well.

 

 

 

I haven't mined iron in a while, but if memory serves, that was a totally different case, too. Past a certain point in mining level, getting iron was totally based on who the server thought hit it first. I'm not a particularly fast clicker, nor do I have an amazing connection, so I used to lose out to lower level iron miners almost 100 percent of the time. I'm not sure if they changed this ... like I said, I haven't mined iron in any quantity, in a very long time.

 

 

 

 

 

Again, these are just my observations; I have no scientifically collected data to back this up. Just countless hours of clicking and a strong gut feeling of what I have seen, that must be beyond mere co-incidence, at my level.

Past a certain point in mining level, getting iron was totally based on who the server thought hit it first. I'm not sure if they changed this ...

 

they actually haven't changed it. it's still the same

u wanna be a good miner u gotta get ya [bleep] out and beat it like ya mean it

Going back to the earlier topic about two people getting ore from one rock at the same time, that happened to me last night in the mining guild, both of us showed the ending animation at exactly the same time. I asked if the other guy had gotten the ore, and he said he had--so had I. Why can't that work all the time? :thumbsup:

well if you are mining iron then the guy has really fast reflexes or something. if ur mining coal its basically chance.

extreme lag man. im nearly 76 minning and it will happen to me often also. not so much addy and mith but in the minning guild and iron near varrock.....80%+ of the time i will be out mined. sometimes i just have a bad connection which is the only reason why it would be happening. they have levels for a reason. :)