Crags Guide to Mining.

[Konve]

Originally Posted by Kubroz

5. Skill gains doesnt matter at all also They are connected with using you mining equipment, not with finding deposits...

I disagree, but there you go. It's all speculation, you see what you want to see.

[gyrmn]

Originally Posted by Alice

just in LAs are taxes

Ahhhh T.I is a Land Area and does tax hunting and mining. Check the information box when you arrive

[Alice]

Originally Posted by Alice
just in LAs are taxes

Originally Posted by gyrmn

Ahhhh T.I is a Land Area and does tax hunting and mining. Check the information box when you arrive

uh, yes?

TI is a LA and have tax, guess i said that

[gyrmn]

Originally Posted by Alice

Originally Posted by Alice
just in LAs are taxes


uh, yes?

TI is a LA and have tax, guess i said that

My bad thought it implied that TI was not....tucking my tail between my legs and slinking off to a dark corner...

[Kubroz]

Originally Posted by Konve

I disagree, but there you go. It's all speculation, you see what you want to see.

Well, everybody is creating theories based on his/her own experience. In my case (and really many miners I spoke to) the theory saying that skill gains indicate, that resouces are near, clearly doesnt work at all So I decided not to waste ped searching area where I gained intelligence and I'd advice all novice mines also to do so Especially in the very beggining of mining you gain prosp\geology at almost every bomb and intelligence also pretty often - what does that indicate??? Nothing of course

[arrowpoint]

Good guide overal, but you need some screenies and there are a few opinions that are called fact by your guide.

[Echo Biatch]

Well bring on the flamers cause I believe that mining skills do mean something.

I have just unlocked mineral sense so that you know I am losing the stench of my noobiness .

I will say my worst mining was during the period from 2990 and 3k skills.
It took me 5k bombs to get over this skill wall.(according to MA there are no skill walls)

During that period I had no real skills showing and had nothing to guide me.

I believe that you can really start to read your skills by about 500. Just because one person says that skills dont mean anything doesnt mean that they dont...
Perhaps it just means that they didnt find what it means or were too stubborn to see what is under their nose...
or perhaps that I am so gifted I can see the pattern which they are oblivious to???
Or I am full of shit and see things that are not there...ROFL

You dont have to see it to believe it....You have to believe it to see it!!!

CND mining is very different from that on the planet so dont expect to go up there and make your fortune or you may find that you are the fool and the others get the gold

I love to mine CND but remind myself all the time it is hot and cold......

GL to all and nice tips for the new miner

Now back to the mission at hand.... *hof* *tower* *please dont wake me*

[Eluqqa]

I'm sure skillgains matter... Although i have no idea how.
If an area has absolutely nothing, chances are i won't get any skills either.
Also, i never, ever find anything if i get a geology skillgain. I heard of an old theory that geology means you're on the border of an "area", but that's just speculation.

[Kubroz]

Originally Posted by Eluqqa

I'm sure skillgains matter... Although i have no idea how.
If an area has absolutely nothing, chances are i won't get any skills either.

1. If you have no idea how then you have no proof that they matter

2. If the area is rich in resouces chances you wont get any skills are very simmilar... I'm aware that an experiment would be needed to prove this (dropping 200-300 bombs in totally empty area or rebombing 1 spot 200-300 times), but somehow I dont feel like wasting so many peds atm with my low budget

Echo said, that my (any many other people) denial doesnt mean anything... Responding to that I'd say, that not the people who deny, but those who claim something positive are obligated to show a proof - I only say that none of theories concerning skillgains worked for me - if you are certain that they mean a lot, then you must show HOW they work (feelings are not a proof...).

Of course both theories are speculations, but the one saying that skillgains dont matter is cheaper, so I'll stick to it untill someone really proves, that I'm wrong

[JimHammer]

Originally Posted by Kubroz

1. If you have no idea how then you have no proof that they matter

2. If the area is rich in resouces chances you wont get any skills are very simmilar... I'm aware that an experiment would be needed to prove this (dropping 200-300 bombs in totally empty area or rebombing 1 spot 200-300 times), but somehow I dont feel like wasting so many peds atm with my low budget

Echo said, that my (any many other people) denial doesnt mean anything... Responding to that I'd say, that not the people who deny, but those who claim something positive are obligated to show a proof - I only say that none of theories concerning skillgains worked for me - if you are certain that they mean a lot, then you must show HOW they work (feelings are not a proof...).

Of course both theories are speculations, but the one saying that skillgains dont matter is cheaper, so I'll stick to it untill someone really proves, that I'm wrong

i have to say this about point 1.

you say he has no proof so he cant say for sure, but there is no proof to support the opposing veiw.

logically speaking skill gains should increase the abilities they represent, otheriwse it would of been totally pointless for the game code writers to even write the code.

so with that logic alone i would assume (and remember assumption is the mother of all fec'ups) that the more points you have in a certian skill the better you will become at it.

but as everything we do involves more then one skill (im pretty sure i have seen geology/prospecting/intelegence all go up in my first couple of hours of mining)

it would be that you could have maxed out your Prospecting and Geology but your intellegence could still be really low and due to the low skill the 2 that are maxed out become restricted by the intellegence ( whats the saying a chain is only as strong as its weakest link)

as a noob to the game and someone that likes to point out the obvious logically but not always correct solutions i assume that all the things i have said (as mentioned in the very first post) are simple speculations and are in no way supported (except for me dropping about 80 bombs in about 3 hours ^^ told you i was a noob - but logic is my friend)