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The RS3 Mining Changes are actually pretty smart! And how they could be used to improve OSRS as well.
For those who haven't read it:
No depletion of materials
This is actually super smart. In OSRS people typically compete over most resources and go into a fit of anger when someone steals their spot.
By eliminating competition between players, encourages natural socialization by players, encouraging players to form social bonds like in fishing. A very intelligent design choice from an MMORPG point of view.
Ability to mine AFK (although you’ll be rewarded for paying attention)
An interesting part of OSRS is that most skilling is actually pretty mundane. There's no way to increase your EXP rates while fishing, for example(unless we are counting 3 ticking which is technically an exploit as there's no mention about it in the in-game skill guide or anywhere).
You're just watching as your character fishes with no way to increase your fishing XP/catch per hour by being more active. Same for Mining, you're just watching your character mine an ore and you don't know when you gain it, without any way to increase your ore rates p/h, so the skillcap for regular skilling is actually pretty low.
Enter RS3. You still have the ability to AFK like you can in OSRS with MLM and Mining gloves(minus Copper, Tin and Iron) but you have the ability to drastically increase the EXP you gain per hour by being more active.
Would be nice if there was a way to increase your skilling EXP/H for OSRS too. So this way, the RS3 Mining change is actually pretty smart.
Ore box
Concidering the location of most mining locations is so far away from bank, like Edgeville Mine, Hobgoblin Mine, Karamjan Mine, South Keldagrim Mine, Ardougne Desert Mine, just to name a few, let alone minigames that are so absurdly close to bank like MLM, there's typically been only a few viable places to mine ores.
A box where you can store up to 100 ores goes a long way in encouraging players to mine in all sorts of different areas by reducing the need to bank.
Another positive thing that this does is that it allows you to actually spend more time paying attention to mining ores and less time dropping ores or running to bank which I think a lot people find more enjoyable.