129966-frustrated-with-mining

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So, I'm in Auroria (level 20ish zone) and I find my first platinum node, but to my surprise I can't mine it, weird I think, it says tier 3 node right there on it. I thought surely this must be a bug, because I have tier 3 mining. So, I click it a few more times and nothing happens. I then remember that I have error message turned off, so I turn them back on, and as it turns out, I need to be level 25! What? Mind boggled. Of course I come and search the forums, and it appears this is working as intended, due to "reasons." So, there are now level 25 nodes, in level 20ish zones. I have recently just returned to the game, and was enjoying mining very much, what with the awesome wormholes. It leaves me with the question, what's the point of having mining tiers, if the nodes are level gated. So, I need to outlevel the zone I'm in, and then backtrack to it, just to properly level my mining? As it now, this is the worse kind of tease, seeing a nice juicy node... that I can't mine. Maybe a better solution to the mining circle problem would have been to restrict mining nodes to player homes that were set to private, as that would have at least had a more narrow effect on gameplay. As for bots, the best solution is to get rid of the bots, not punish players, just off the top of my head.
 
Signed,
Frustrated returning player
			
				
	Edited August 16, 2015 by AlphaFoxTrot	
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			cause mining bots in free trials, this all stuff is aimed to make it harder for goldfarmers, just level it wont take that much	
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			This is the only way to get rid of the bots. Especially now the game is going free to play. They worked crazy hours trying to track and kick bots when the game launched with little success. They had to implement level locks because it's the only way to keep things under control while they execute the longer process of fixing exploits. Keeping them now the exploits are fixed is a method of damage control in case a new exploit appears.Also someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there aren't locks on nodes in housing. You have an alternative to level your mining at home or in a mining circle.
			
				
	Edited August 18, 2015 by Lemurian	
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This is the only way to get rid of the bots. Especially now the game is going free to play. They worked crazy hours trying to track and kick bots when the game launched with little success. They had to implement level locks because it's the only way to keep things under control while they execute the longer process of fixing exploits. Keeping them now the exploits are fixed is a method of damage control in case a new exploit appears.
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Once you get into Whitevale for platinum, there are at least 2 zones for each of the new tier levels. As in, Whitevale and Farside are both platinum and Wilderrun and Malgrave are Xenocite.
 
It's not like you need to scour Galaras over and over for platinum because the next two leveling areas will have it.  So I'm not seeing a big problem with keeping level 25 (and up) toons out of the sand box areas.	
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If this was effective why is it only limited to mining nodes?  Bots were farming all nodes and not just mining. 
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