What video card and settings do you use? When I fly over an LA at the mandated 16m altitude I get the purple rings shown on the ground where the ore has been placed...Do you not get them? You MUST have an nvidia card.
As I understand it MA codes all skills & professions and make them available for all planet partners. What I would like to see is that all planet partners are not using everything they get but focuses on some parts and really make that function very well on their planet to make their planet feel complete and have a connected story/background. If everything is used it would feel like a real mish mash (much like calypso feels now). Thats also why I feel that some skills should only be unlockable on a particular planet. Taming, as an example, is something which I believe should not be implemented on all planets when it is back. With that said, I would really like if the planet partners would have the possibility to have their own unique skills/professions. But these skills/professions should be really specialized and just a small part of the total common skill set. So that it does not feel like a complete new game but actually, just a new planet, that you have to learn the specifics about.
I like the suggestions of archeological and geographical based professions and/or skills. This would fit right in with miners which is one of the most neglected professions considering the vast options available to hunters and crafters. Also cryptography would be great and introduce some more problem-solving or puzzle based missions and aspects to the game and tie nicely within story lines.
i hope at least on Arkadia mining skills to be usefull not like in Calypso where the only think was to can use better finders wich actually in these days are useless .
We are in Arkadia for find old but very advanced tecnology, and we talk about magic. As say "Clarke law" (Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer) "Any tecnology enough advanced not have difference with magic". Language skill can be useful for read something items treasure hunter find, but i think at the moment we not will talk with natives very much.