Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton

I hear a lot of anger about this change, and to be honest I am unhappy with it as well. I am willing to see how it pans however, and adapt to changes. Obviously the Devs felt this needed a change.

My only question is why?

As it stood before this, it seemed most miners at about my skill level made slightly less per hour if you counted my PVE loot as : fragments, reprocess, decoders, rare item drops and of course kernels. I always felt this was a fair balance as miners arent required to maintain 'twitch' style activity for the full duration of their gathering process. Basically they are required to check on their doings every minute or few minutes even.

Now it seems I will be on an almost even nik/hour playing field as the miners with a lot more focused attention required on my end. Maybe I'm seeing only a small piece of the picture. Maybe this change is an unintended consequence to an imbalance somewhere else that had to do with kernels.

I'll suck it up and continue. I love the game. Just curious.

I would like to think that this new dynamic was meant to be small objectives to be fought over in Beta to give more reason to PvP besides high speed roaming/raiding. If i remember correctly from earlier talks they were supposed to be destructible?

Quote from developer blog:
"This plant will contain a new harvestable material for use in the manufacturing of high end items. Beware of people trying to harvest or even destroy your crops!"