Hello there, Lanzer! smile
First off, my short question. What are your feelings when users do some sleuthing and uncover things that aren’t supposed to be revealed until later, such as promotions or NPCs? For example, people finding the Blue Dragon account long before the release of the promotion. Does it annoy or disappoint you that things like this get spoiled?
Secondly, you once said there was a Mining game in development, but you scrapped it because you "shouldn't have tried writing it in Javascript." lol I’m pretty curious about that now. Are you thinking of recycling that idea someday? Perhaps you could try to borrow ideas from the Underground Treasure Hunting minigame in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, which I find to be fracking addicting. xd
For those not familiar with it, here's a rundown:
You're given a sledgehammer, a pickax, and a radar. You use the radar to find shining spots in the Underground's walls that are ripe for digging. Once you find a spot, you can pick at it a certain number of times before it collapses. Balance between the two tools is the key to digging up everything. The sledgehammer uncovers a lot of space but weakens the wall faster while the pickax covers only a little space but is slower at weakening the wall.
Maybe you could add tools...like drills or those brushes archaeologists and the like use to dust off artifacts without damaging them. Or upgrades to the given tools, such as creating a sledgehammer that doesn't weaken a wall so fast. biggrin
Just my two cents; I'd be happy if you so much as skimmed over them. xd