war actually helps fuel the market

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

Personally I'd like to see static spawns on all Alpha islands with dynamic on Beta and Gamma.

This would make life easier for new players and producers on Alpha, and make Gamma and Beta 'safer' in that no-one can camp a specific 'fixed' spawn site.

This also aids 'casual' players  - they don't need to traipse for 15-20 minutes of their short play time simply to find the next ore spawn.

By the time new players want to mine on Beta/Gamma they should have gained enough in-game experience/help to learn how to use directional scanner charges.

What would prevent veteran players also mine the much more convenient fixed spawns on alpha, essentially making the lives of new players even harder?

First: My market is not dead. I do buy and sell orders and have enough transactions.

Second to the static vs dynamic ore spots I see pro and cons for both.
As I allready expected direct after introduction of dynamic spots, my time spend on mining dropped significant. If I have 60 mins online time, it is not reasonable to search next ore spot, drive there scan, mine and haul home. With static spots it was normal for me to mine even if I knew I'm only 30-45 min online.
For member of larger corps the situation changes, as it is no deal to join a mining op.

On the other hand there is now a reason to be good in geoscanning. In older times, I used no geoscanner in 9 out of 10 mining ops at all, which was not as intended I guess.

And the dynamic spawn now has a better scaling of mineral spots to miners on the field. With static spots I remember times when spots where always in light green until after each patch they were filled again to red.

Mining is boring as hell by it is. Searching for nodes makes it a little funnier at least.

Here is an another opinion - make every says 5 mining cycles decreasing a terrain to says 1m on all the island types, restoring back in some period - that will make us feel that we are actually mining, not just select tile, click on modules, wait, repeat on other tile. As additional, we will need to plan our mining, making a quarries etc. OT but still.

Tux your talking about Gamma, we are refering to alpha and beta.

Static spawns will make the game worse. You don't want to make the game worse.

dunno what the problem is -
finding an ore deposit takes not much longer then before. you log in and follow the arrows until your at the mining location -> start mining.

thats not much different then "logging in, driving to fixed mining location, start mining".

even if you log out on the terrain, you can either start mining in that location again, if noone mined it out yet, or you hit your geoscanner and follow arrows to next deposit again.

really.

before i had to check which ore deposit has already refilled enough to be minable. with CIR, NEBS, M2S, STC, .... and whatever big corp all power-mining on Tellesis, i always had to SEARCH.

atm, i take my riv and find a deposit right on.

whats your obsession with red tiles?

have you ever done a before<> after patch comparison how much ore is in one red tile, and how much of that ore you need in production process.

if yes, then please share, if the result is the same and i have to care about finding RED tiles

red tile pre-systemchange: Titan ore ~700k