Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24108228-20150412155106/@comment-24108228-20150415152638

So we have the following: A tribe lives at rockma, striving to get mithril. They have mined the gold ore vein for around two hours, until eventually a mithril vein pops up. At this moment/just before, a noob spawns in, sees the purple ore, and makes a stone pickaxe + mines the entire vein with it before the rockma tribe notice and intervene. The noob, not knowing what to do with the new mithril, gives it to a player who has malicious intentions, and that player in turn goes on a rampage.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call you out on special pleading at this point. The chances of this occurring are now completely minuscule, and a noob just spawning in to find mithril is far too unlikely to be a valid counter-arguement. If the nub doesn't even know what the mithril is, why do they mine it? And how have they advanced to the point of knowing how to make a stone pickaxe without having the slightest idea of the metal hierarchy, mithril is even a well known fictional metal, "stronger than steel and as light as a feather". And why would you give away something you found on an ore vein once and never found again, to a random stranger, who just so happens to really need this mystery metal?

Anyone with the slightest bit of sense wouldn't give it away, and although you can argue they're a noob, mithril is well known outside of 303 as a strong metal, and it is clearly rather rare. The player knew how to make a pickaxe, implying they know what they're doing.