There have been many updates to mining over the last couple of years. Are we done? Is mining done? Is it feature complete, or is there more coming down the pipe?
TL;DRMining is in a good place but not done: it still needs harder multi-player content and the Orion, plus possible FPS mining additions, though development will slow as the team helps elsewhere.
I think mining is in a good place now. I mean, yeah, we can keep tweaking. I think we need a tweak of content and the difficulty, and bringing in more difficult rocks that require multiple players with super high-end gear to break, but also super high yield of resources from them. I think that is kind of missing from a content perspective. From a system perspective, when it comes to small... let's not call it small ship mining, it's pretty much medium ship mining, because a Prospector and a MOLE are not that small. We are in a good place now, where the people that were working on this are trying to help now with other systems in other parts of the game. So I don't want to say put it on hold, but it's going to slow down development on mining. Is it done? No, far from it. There's still the Orion. When we get that Orion out, and all the bells and whistles that come with it, that's probably when I'm going to say, yeah, that is mining, it's complete. There's still some stuff we can do on FPS mining. FPS mining was released and didn't receive much love for two years, more than two years, somewhere there. It's an integral part of the game, but it could use some love. We've expanded on the ship mining: we've done consumables, we've done components, we've done gadgets. This does not exist for FPS mining. So we would like to be able to take that multi-tool and equip it a bit more. I know the Actor Feature Team are also working on a specialized version of the mining tool, because they're doing the same for a lot of the tools, like the tractor beam and all these things. They're going to get specialized versions, more powerful, but they're not modular, where you can just change an attachment and use it for something else. Sorry, my voice is gone. Probably the Actor Feature guys are going to start talking about that. So that's the idea of bringing in some of that flavor that we have for ships into FPS mining. That is something we can still do now, and fairly easily. But there's other things that are way, way, way more important right now.