Topic: Hints of things to come in the 09-08 update
I find this bit of information in the patch notes very intriguing:
"New: Mining and harvesting cycles can now occasionally yield rare materials. These are more dense isotopes or more pure variants of the standard raw materials, and can be recycled to their standard counterparts. There is also a chance that mining one type of mineral will yield a variant of another loosely related mineral. Currently rare materials have no other purpose than spicing up mining and saving some cargo space."
Note the first word in the last sentence: "Currently."
The implication is that they will have other uses down the road as the devs continue to develop manufacturing. T5 mods? MK3 bots? special prototypes? new modules entirely?
For manufacturers these implications are great news. I can see this becoming the best crafting system since SWG.
For PvP/PvE combat people, better equipement
For miners, this adds to the fun (this adds a nice loot drop table to mining).
The anticipation is killing me.