Iron ore availability needs a fix

[Cheerio]

Its been a week and there is still a big problem with iron ore availability in this game. The problem: it is required for too much in too big quantities, and the amount people can mine is just not enough to satisfy the demand. I have seen a 51 lvl player making iron ore runs, and numerous 40+, at 3AM. The competition for those ores is insane. So what can be done to address this:
1) Increase iron ore respawn timings. I personally think this is the best solution.
2) Boost amount mined from every mining operation.
3) A revamp of crafting to account for iron scarcity. Very time consuming and hard to do.

I understand there will be opposition to this.
Firstly, people who have already invested a lot of time into mining iron ore to help level up there crafting will be upset if everyone else gets an easier time doing this. This is unfortunate, but the problem still needs to be addressed.
Secondly, people will say this is still very early in the game, let the economy adjust itself. Well, I think there should be a sort of balance at every stage. If in early stages of the economy basic level resources are supposed to be the most sought after, fine. But the thing is other basic level resources are not as scarce as iron ore is, it's not even close. So either those basic level resources need to be made more scarce, or just iron ore needs a fix.

Currently dealing with iron ore scarcity is just too frustrating and too much of a pain. It is required in quantities so big that just mining it when you stumble into it is not an option. And making an attempt to farm it just doesn't work because there are dozens of players doing the same thing and that kind of competition is incredibly frustrating for a thing that is supposed to be so basic. Please fix it ASAP!

P.S.
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Originally posted by starkmaddness:

Iron should be needed less for high tier recipes and the other materials should be needed more. For all recipes really. Reduce the dependency on Iron and to balance, decrease the drop rate of higher tier materials.

This also help address the problem of iron ore being like x100 times more valuable than gold, which makes the game's economy look ridiculous. This is clearly not by design.

[stretch]

You are failing to grasp the fundamental concept behind games with micro-transactions.

The sole purpose of these games is to make money. They need to sell things. Fair enough the items are not for sale yet but they are coming. To sell things there must be a demand.
To this end these companies will release a game that is fundamentally flawed in ways designed entirely to encourage players to spend cash.

They will not make anything in the game easier at the expense of profit from selling boosts later on. Not going to happen.

[Lothran]

If you look at https://www.newworld-map.com/#/ you'll see there is no shortage of iron. It's just the most visible nodes are the most harvested and so it seems like there needs to be more. However, that is definitely not the case, you just need to explore more.

[AvivLobel]

i can get 2k iron ore in less then an hour , i a special route that lot of people dont know about , so when i start there is allways ore to mine

[That_Jeff]

The good old struggle with MMOs. Too many people. Too little resources. Unfortunetely, even though I understand your points, I don't really think there's anything that can be done that won't affect the balance of the game.

I'll tell you what happens if they do what you said aka increasing respawn or resource nodes. The same people who are gathering them all now, will just get more because they are faster, have more time and have optimal farming routes because that's exclusively what they are doing.

[Blank]

Charms, buffs, and proficiency boosters can help you get more iron and other good things to drop out of them.

[Alegost]

Lowering the ore respawn time would have negative effect on the economy.
Wait a few weeks and players will start to migrate toward higher lvl territories, that will solve the problem.

[Leperous_Donkey]

they need to give boulders the ability to drop some iron ore... that way you can have specific iron ore runs plus you can have a small injection of iron ore without doing runs

[765]

I think they should add it to a few more locations.
My main gripe with it is that it is about as rare as silver and the spots near town are so few that everyone camps them.

[Mordicai052]

This method of crafting is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Not only is it a massive time sink, it screws over lower lvl gatherers/crafters as high lvl, well geared gatherers tear through the starting zones hoovering up all the resources.

[Kauldric]

Iron seems unbalanced, yes.

The should you certainly make it less frustrating to get it.

If the game was PvP flag on at all times then getting iron would at least be more fun, since you could fight for your nodes

[Kraven]

This post is a joke, THERES TO MANY IRON NODES! Demand should be higher! get better at the game instead of making fake complaints!

[OnlyOne]

I read a Response from the Devs about the Rare Fae Ore from Iron....There Responses was...the More you mine and increase your Skill..you will eventually reach a Threshold where you will start Seeing More of the Rare Materials...this goes for all skills.

So there will always be stiff competition for Iron Ore even from lvl 40 and 50's getting that rare ores.
It will settle but for now been new..people going to mine like mad to get ore for crafting or sell ore on market..Everyone wants houses and territory and to pay for Town Upgrades..

[holdem]

Originally posted by Cheerio:

Its been a week and there is still a big problem with iron ore availability in this game. The problem: it is required for too much in too big quantities, and the amount people can mine is just not enough to satisfy the demand. I have seen a 51 lvl player making iron ore runs, and numerous 40+, at 3AM. The competition for those ores is insane. So what can be done to address this:
1) Increase iron ore respawn timings. I personally think this is the best solution.
2) Boost amount mined from every mining operation.
3) A revamp of crafting to account for iron scarcity. Very time consuming and hard to do.

I understand there will be opposition to this.
Firstly, people who have already invested a lot of time into mining iron ore to help level up there crafting will be upset if everyone else gets an easier time doing this. This is unfortunate, but the problem still needs to be addressed.
Secondly, people will say this is still very early in the game, let the economy adjust itself. Well, I think there should be a sort of balance at every stage. If in early stages of the economy basic level resources are supposed to be the most sought after, fine. But the thing is other basic level resources are not as scarce as iron ore is, it's not even close. So either those basic level resources need to be made more scarce, or just iron ore needs a fix.

Currently dealing with iron ore scarcity is just too frustrating and too much of a pain. It is required in quantities so big that just mining it when you stumble into it is not an option. And making an attempt to farm it just doesn't work because there are dozens of players doing the same thing and that kind of competition is incredibly frustrating for a thing that is supposed to be so basic. Please fix it ASAP!

the 'problem' is most players are still in the noob areas so all iron is mined there.
just wait for a week when players are more spread out and the 'problem' fixes itself.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by That_Jeff:

The good old struggle with MMOs. Too many people. Too little resources. Unfortunetely, even though I understand your points, I don't really think there's anything that can be done that won't affect the balance of the game.

I'll tell you what happens if they do what you said aka increasing respawn or resource nodes. The same people who are gathering them all now, will just get more because they are faster, have more time and have optimal farming routes because that's exclusively what they are doing.

The difference to other MMOs is that you dont need the low level ores all the way up to high level.
In WoW for example you start with copper. You craft copper armor. Then you go over to Bronze, you still need Copper and also Tin. Then comes Iron, and Copper is not necessary for you to gather anymore, as it is no longer (or barely) used.

Here, you start with Iron, and you will need Iron even at Max Level Crafting, simply because every Metal Bar builds up on each other.

[Cheerio]

Originally posted by CyberDown:

There is plenty out there, you need to look for it, its like the point of this game. You can look up maps to see where ore spawns are if you need to. I have more issues with inventory weight being just so restrictive to the only decent content in this game however.

Actually I have spent hours farming it already. And it is getting worse. Last night at 3AM I was making a run around Everfall for iron ore and from like 15 possible mining spots know how many were available? 1.