that is a intresting idea. in general this will make no big difference because resources on a island are already infinite.

but for the normal ores you normaly dont set up a mining tower because its not realy worth the time and the fields deplete too fast. with this idea it would be worth doing so and take benefit for the other minerals besides colixum to get the mining bonus.

I mean only resources amount in tiles. Not extraction amount.

Err... No. It hasn't worked like that since 1st June 2012.

The amount of raw material in a single tile is fixed - you can see exactly how much is itheret by dropping a universal geoscanner charge on a tile. The only thing that modules, extensions and mining towers alter is the amount extracted per cycle and the duration of a cycle. A day 1 noob will get the same raw material out of a tile as 1 million EP Riveler MK2 toon.

... and the extraction per cycle bonus on a mining tower applies to all non-organic raw materials

-1 dumbest thing ever hunter.  Maybe hand from *** more?

It's a nice idea , since buidling a mining tower is only worth it for colixium.

Mining tower transform solid mineral in liquid mineral, no ?

why not make mining towers mine the minerals, minerals would accumulate in the mining towers "hopper" and would have to be emptied by players. .. would make good targets for people to attack

could also take this one step further and make it the ONLY way to gather minerals on gamma... beta /alpha would stay unchanged... just a thought

Interesting, but I think too much of an advantage for gamma. We don't want to widen the gap between beta gamma mining even more.

This if done right could be of benefit as long as new minerals don't compete with miners. Added need for energy and extractors connected to mining towers with low hp, so it needs to be well defended and fed.

I had hoped before Gamma had come out that Colix. mining would work this way.

Wish we had that problem, its possible now for 200000 corps to live in one anyways.