Just wondering what the concensus is regards the gathering of mother lode nodes of resources.
Personally, I think they are a great addition to the game and have come to the conclusion that no individual could deplete a single node in 'one sitting'. Therefore, I, and many others that I have noticed do not expect exclusive access to it; as we would normal and rich nodes. Normally, I have a brief chat to others gathering from the same node and this has resulted in many fruitful trades that would not have happened otherwise.
This was not the case last night however. After starting to gather from a mother lode that another player already was, I stopped gathering in deference to their opinion that exclusive access was expected. Not suprisingly, the node was not depleted and I then continued to gather just short of 15k bulk (full silk and tarbs obsidian disk). Even then the node was not empty and managed to get another partial load from it - sharing it with another player as would be mine, and theirs norms (I confirmed that they didn't mind prior to proceeding to gather).
That said, if you see me gathering from a mother lode, feel free to join in - you never know what might result form any chats we have [:D]
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