Since 3 months (date of this thread) we know that gold mining (= massively open creature links, usually adults) causes lag and errors, probably since many years (which, in turn, also caused the number active users to drop significantly) and it is now forbidden. In these three months, however, there were still some severe server problems (cloudflare errors, mysql errors), luckily they never lasted as long as prior to the updates/new rule. Still, it's annoying, even though I don't know if the recent ones were related to gold mining or something else.
I just checked, clicking an adult creature still gives me gold. I simply do not understand why it is still possible and not deactivated to remove it from the potential list of culprits.
Why is gold for clicking adults not set to zero and end of story?
- When something is possible (clicking adults gives gold) even though it is forbidden (some) people will do it (perhaps at lower rates to not raise any attention) because their own benefit is more important than the well being of the (rather anonymous) community.
- Users who still gold mine (and not use the forums or use the forums but choose to ignore the order) would figure out quickly that clicking adults/gold mining is pointless.
- Rosehill mentioned[1] (see quote below) that gold mining was never meant to be part of the game. (This argument would be - for me - the reason to switch it off). Perhaps we should accept that one has to save some gold in order to buy some special creatures (as it probably was when MS started) and refrain from "I want this and if I cannot get it asap it's the game's fault"?
- Rosehill also mentioned[2] (several times as far as I remember) that other ways for getting gold are considered and discussed behind the scenes. That's very sweet and something we should be looking forward to.
- In case all server issues are resolved and it turns out that the server can handle such huge amounts of requests it could be - theoretically - reactivated. Perhaps with a daily limit?
- From the climate/CO2/energy etc. point of view I can imagine that mining should be disabled (not my field of expertise, though). Sending hundreds/thousands requests to a server for such a low benefit (let's face it!) leaves a bad taste in my mouth...
Best,
kunigund
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Rosehill wrote: ↑November 17th, 2023, 3:26:39 pm
I will just say that quest prices etc. have never been set up with gold mining in sight, since gold mining isn't an official part of the gameplay. Price changes are thus unlikely to happen.
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Rosehill wrote: ↑November 18th, 2023, 1:22:10 am
For discussion about the gold mechanics I'd encourage everyone to have and keep it on the announcement post about gold mining. A lot of ideas and caveats have already been thrown around there, and I know Raneth's already found some of the ideas there quite appealing.