Where are Earthquakes? This makes it difficult for many reasons, no fresh minerals to mine. Every 30 minutes would be sufficent or every 45 to 1 hour. It makes the game more fun and interesting. Also it adds difficulty.

I hope you take this into consideration.  

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Well, earthquakes are at 10000ft+. However, they dont put new minerals in the dirt. They just shift ground left-right. And dont worry, at 25000-30000 ft you will start to hate them.    
If u find that there are not enough minerals in the ground, you either have to change yo strategy or wait untill the next version, which will have difficulty levels. Yet, it is very possible to finish the game as it is right now, all you have to do is buy upgrades carefully.

Yes I discovered this, though I think MLU could be more fun with an option to either refresh minerals or an "Earthquake" that refreshes the land. Just to keep it difficult, you could make it every hour or by how much land you have mined out.

I'd just like to see a great game become greater.

Well, I could have it so that new minerals appear at the edges because of earthquakes. Like they been shifted from outside of the field inside. I may have that option in the beginner level (or just place minerals all over the place like you want). Its just that I would have to place them randomly throughout the field and that would mess up the tunnels. There are stages of the game where you could just zoom through with one vertical tunnel picking minerals as u go along, and other stages where you have to explore every corner looking for stuff. I prefer that players made a large network of tunnels instead of one tunnel, cause that way all the stuff left and right of the tunnel is there for a reason.

Well I am suggesting the type of Earthquake in Motherload. Though reading over your concept, those aren't too bad of ideas. I just want to have new minerals to mine and new soil to clear out instead of the same thing throughout the whole game. It just adds more intrest into the game and adds some difficulty. (ie having to dig new tunnels)

Be carefull what you wish for. My game is not Xgen Motherload, it goes much deeper. You dont want to have to dig for hours just to reach the depths again. Anyways, dont worry, Ill do the ground refresh thing u r asking for. See if u find it usefull.
Anyways, im outty. Be back in ~3 hrs.

Of course your game isn't Motherload. Its 50 times better. Anywayz I'm glad you took the time and considered my idea. I'll see you in 3 hours.  

Let me think, does it involve dodging rocks?

I'll be there soon enough.

Yeah I like that earthquake idea to, though would it happen from the top to bottom? or just in the area where you are?

For the ending, You go to like a new level with different upgrades maybe? Or another suggestion when you beat one planet you go to the next. Right now I'm liking my planet idea, though it is more work.  :/ To keep it interesting you have to earn $100,000 to fly to the new planet or something like that.

Well I was using $100,000 as an example.

Heres another suggestion. Use a galaxy map. Simple. You have to beat one planet to go to the next (ie all bosses, challanges, blah blah) then get enough money to go. There could be ice planets, fire planets, water planets. Haha now we got a whole new type of game.

49 MB big? lol Last time I checked thats nothing. You wouldn't have to mail out on dvds, and the most MLU could take on RAM is mainly dependant on how the game itself is written.

A 100 mb download isn't bad. Most RAM these days can handle this simple game. In fact MLU uses less then 10% on my computer.  

Ok, lets not get carried away, people. Im still a student, have homework and not a professional programmer, if i was i could done this game so it would run at 5% instead of 10%. And i know, 49MB is nothing, if u have a good computer. What i have now is 1GHz, 250 RAM, and ~2GB of free hard drive (15GB total). So civilization-type-MLU would have to wait, cause im too cheap to upgrade/buy new computer.
I could make it something like Xgen Motherload: after you finish a level, you would have to mine on a different, harder planet Yet, it would be kinda stupid if u earned $250,000,000 on Mars, like Seth did, and start off on a new planet, doing all the work yoself with a 10$ digger. But i guess if Xgen ML can do it, why not me?
Another thing im considering is making wormholes in the ground, so if u enter a wormhole, you are transported to another wormhole where ever that may be. So i could have a very small chance that a wormhole will transport you to another planet where you have to start from scratch.
Anyways, all these multi-level ideas are great, but im sure i wont get to do them in the december version. Its just of no use right now, cause most of the players are still struggling at the surface.
 

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Right I see now. Just throwing wild ideas out there. I now understand the work your tring to do now. Can't wait for the next update.

Wow I feel special. If I could I would share my connection with you.

Quite civilized indeed.