Balance issues

[Bloody]

With the awesome new fishing spot, people choose to ignore mining completely for many reasons:

1- Mining is no longer the best gold source. Fishing provides gift boxes in large quantities. And gift boxes = gold, santa poring cards, emps, ...etc
2- OCAs. With such low population, people rarely hunt things that drop OCAs. OCAs are hard to come by. So we need a steady source of OCA, which is fishing.


For those two main reasons, mining has been deserted. No one mines anymore. Slowly it is becoming a useless feature. I have a couple suggestions to maybe even things out:


a- Remove gift boxes from fishing and put them in the mining system instead.

b- Create a new Mining spot in Einbech Mines with improved mining system (Advanced Mining Spot) [No iron ores, higher maximum level, Miners' exclusive helm, better chances of obtaining rocks (elu, ori, lvl 4 wep stones)].

c- Make fishing more challenging:
http://pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=4707


(I fish too so this is going to effect me as well, don't think I am posting this to ruin your fun/economy/fishing/oca)