Mining Rush for Gold - does it HAVE to be mined?
- Thread starter Leadfoot
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80% sure it has to be mined but Ill wait for somwonw to confirm that before running with it as there was a bug where you could get missi9n rewards for another mission in an infinite loop with mining missions. It was patch a bit back.
I'm not sure in your case. I know the other way around does work. Source and return missions will accept mined or purchased. That's all I got.
Easy enough to try. CGs have definitely been changed so they are mined only.
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Gameplay. Really.
I accepted a mission by mistake asking for gold to be mined. As it happened I had enough in hold anyway. I was able to complete mission no problem.
Obviously buying gold vs mining reduces mission profits although offset by time saved etc etc.
Obviously buying gold vs mining reduces mission profits although offset by time saved etc etc.
The consensus seems to be "If it says 'mined' then it's got to be mined." I'll accept that as the answer. Thanks.
Damned guys probably got spies everywhere. "No, you can't hand us 80 tons of gold. Not THAT gold. It's got to be MINED gold. Our 'sources' told us you just went off and bought it somewhere. That means it's got someone's damned fingerprints on it. Sorry but the guy we're getting this for only wants pure, untouched by anyone's fingers gold."
Damned guys probably got spies everywhere. "No, you can't hand us 80 tons of gold. Not THAT gold. It's got to be MINED gold. Our 'sources' told us you just went off and bought it somewhere. That means it's got someone's damned fingerprints on it. Sorry but the guy we're getting this for only wants pure, untouched by anyone's fingers gold."
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I'm adding this to my head-canon.
So let me get this right - you're gonna take the work of a bunch of randos who don't seem very sure, and base your game play on that - rather than just buy 1T gold, take 1 mining mission, and try and hand that 1T of gold in? Words fail...
Yes, offset significantly. We’re probably talking maybe 30 minutes to source vs a few hours to mine. You could fulfill handful of these missions in the time it would take to mine them. Where I am, some of these mining missions pay 8+ million, and sometimes 20 million for wing mission requiring 1200+ tons (a couple of trips in a Cutter). I might try this tonight, just to see. I'm pretty sure that it worked in the past.
To be fair it is easy explained with gameplay mechanics, as all goods are digitally fingerprinted and bought metal is easy to differentiate between gold stored from mining.
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Wisdom of crowds. I'll get my coat.
And, at your keyboard-prod, I decided to go ahead and give it a try.
I guess things changed in the last update. You CAN accept a "mine gold" mission, buy gold and hand it in. Profit.
I stand corrected. I owe you a beer. [yesnod]
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You can even link it to the real world. Gold bars get stamps from the mints in which they have been molten. In our case, our refinery would stamp our logo into the gold bars. If you buy them, they will obviously have different stamps.
You can even go a step further, if you don't want to trust the stamps. While you get 99.9% graded gold, the remaining 0.1% "pollution" can serve as a fingerprint to the source of the gold.
