149855-if-im-the-right-level-to-place-a-plug-shouldnt-i-be-able-to-use-it

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I know this has been brought up before, but it's very obnoxious that with mineral nodes you have to be one level to mine the outside and another level to mine the cores. It's pretty much ridiculous. I can understand mineral nodes requiring a certain level to be mined, but for the whole node, not just the outside of it. 
 
Long story short, my mining alt finally hit 40 so I put in a tier 4 mineral deposit. But, she can't actually mine half the nodes that spawn. With galactium nodes I can mine the outside and then I have to actually attack the cores. What is the point of this? I mean really? Keep in mind no other resource deposit works like this. Stumps don't require higher level than the branches. The first omniplasms off a relic node don't require a lower level than the last omniplasms. 
 
I'm guessing it was some sort of anti-bot measure, but how does it help to have the outside of a node require level 40 and the inside require level 45. More to the point, does what help it provides really outweigh the annoyance it causes your actual players? 	
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