When are you going to make an easier way to upgrade your weapons, mining is bad and it's making iEra bad as well. I know it's been like this for a long time and all but please change it. I would appreciate if you took the time to read this message.

Ok I could of raged but I'm not in the mood, so I sincerely ask you guys to make an easier way to upgrade your weapons.



^ click there to see my rage post

Never
Nothing is wrong with how to upgrade now.

You didn't need to post the rage part. As for the mining idea i'm not sure.

I'm not sure what's so difficult and horrible about mining for upgrade materials? please elaborate.

well after you added those dumb pointless minerals that will not bring you a steady source of income it's become way harder to get the minerals you actually want.

Some people are just so lazy that holding their finger on their device for a little bit is really going to hurt them dramatically after doing it for a while.

But mining could use some improvements in the mining level itself, instead of all kinds of materials able to be found in each mine, make it limited. In the real world someone can't go mine and expect to find every element right there, you'll find a few elements but usually scattered. It would be nice to see this in the era mines, usually each mining area has 3-4 levels so it wouldn't be hard to do this really.
What this would help though as well is the upgrading, if you know what kind of mine has what kind of minerals then it will save you a little bit of time, but you'd still have a chance of getting a few others as well.

I see, this seems like a really good idea - or perhaps some form of special mine dedicated to mining materials that you can pay a small sum to enter? (200g or something? lol)

100g-150g seems a little more reasonable, I mean, if you're mining for certain minerals its usually for the purpose of upgrading a gun then, which that plus the amount for the gun upgrade itself. I don't expect to go into a mine and earn 200g+ gralats to make a profit off of certain minerals.
But what does need to happen is if the player logs off it automatically warps the player out so that there is no cheating behind this either, cause some players would get the idea that if they keep an account in there they can summon another account of theirs in the same level so they never have to pay again.
And as for entering the level itself have an npc that first ask if the player would like to enter the level so that there is no "I accidentally lost <#>g by hitting this warp".

Or make it VIP only, so it gives more purpose to VIP players and allows multiple entries. Then when a player logs on inside the mines, it could check for VIP and kick if necessary.

Well, whichever is fair really :)
Good idea in regards to that, gotta know people are smart enough and to cheap enough to do it.
Well, if we were using a gralat entry fee, it'd be done by npc anyways so no accidental warps :)

VIP does need a bigger purpose as well, right now the only reasons for it really are different colors, unlimited revive for a month and usually some kind of item. I mean, if someone just wanted unlimited revive for a month they could cut that price just about in half and buy a months revive.
Lately the VIP items haven't even been that great in my opinion anyways, I mean sure they're cool for like the first few days, about a week later you never see it used. Instruments are a nice implement, but instead of making something that isn't even used that much should just be sold in shops instead.

Usually when snake comes in and starts debating, other staff moderators come in a close the thread lawl. <3 iky snake

But, How is mining difficult? It just takes some time. (By the way, you know if you level your mining level up.. you can mine quicker, do no reason to complain)

Can't say I agree on the some parts of the Mines being vip only. Unless, you make a new mining area in which IS vip only and they still have to pay $100-150 for the material they want. If this is what you meant, than I agree. But to only have an area for vip in a local mine, it seems a bit unfair to us who have non-vip.

Hmmm I wouldn't mind a vip iron / lead mine only etc

How about something new, instead of making this limited to VIP make a new kind of thing that is strictly just about mining. Like buying a certificate/badge kind of thing that allows you to enter these kind of mines. Somewhere in the price range of maybe 2000g-3000g? And with this certificate/badge comes a limited time it last as well. Because I don't think people are really gonna wanna buy VIP just to do enter a certain mine because VIP is 7500g, but what I said seems a little bit more reasonable and would be focused on mining.