And if the block armor values were a toggle on sovereign worlds, only sovereign planets would suffer the slow regen Kal mentioned above
I think the slow regen as been fixed anyways.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was a separate issue that was just exacerbated by bomb mining, and was fixed separately. If it hadn’t, we’d be seeing the same regen issues caused when people go to town with speed brews and a an AoE hammer.
With regards to the metrics response quoted: Given that their metrics can only have been taken for a couple of months (it’s a September 2018 post and that the centraforge wasn’t released, let alone understood, until July), I do wonder if that data would be anywhere near as definitive if it was taken now, given the access that people to have to advanced hammers and consumables (and how little extra forging and consumables would speed up bomb mining by comparison). I’d put money on the fact that it wouldn’t, but I it’s way to late to do anything about it.
It’s not too late! Haha
The AOE from the bombs made them op. Reducing that would have fixed the issue.
If you would go for a type a gem that spawn between a range of 20 blocks you could uncover them all the way and was easier to find them than smashing block blindly with the hammer.
Reducing it to lets say to a range of max 5-6 blocks radius would do the trick.
I guess back then it was easier for them to completely make then useless for mining than all balancing that. Then it removed an interesting and fresh way of mining.