I think it would be great to have an another mining mode that makes you mine in the same speed as all other miners but still gives you the benefit at your mining level. Blending in with everybody is kinda fun. I have relative high mining level and I find it pretty hard to mine in Wiluna. I don't have easy conversations with other players like I had before.
So this is what my second mining mode will do. You still mine for a period closed to 30 seconds but get an amount of rocks equivalent to how many rocks you can make within 30 seconds originally.
Here is the specification for my algorithm, to see how many rocks you are supposed to make in a period of ~30 seconds:
Step 1. 30 seconds/(<your time for a rock>+0.5 seconds)=<amount of rocks you can make> //I add 0.5 seconds for the time to move to another spot that you was supposed to do, this is to be fair with the original mining mode.
Step 2. Round the <amount of rocks you can make> above to the closet integer since it can have a fractional part.
Step 3. <rounded amount of rocks you can make>x(<your time for a rock>+0.5)=time to mine.
For example my lvl is 2 and I can make a rock in 29.4 seconds, if you do the math above we will still get the same result as the original mining mode. In fact this method won't take effect till level 35.
If my level is 55, I can make a rock in 13.5 seconds. Amount of rocks I can make in 30 seconds =30/(13.5+0.5)=2.14. Round to the closet integer which is 2. Time to mine 2 rocks =2x(13.5+0.5)=28 seconds.
So instead of mining for 13.5 seconds 2 times, you can mine for 28 seconds and get 2 rocks once. Same result but different visual sense.
One more example shall we? Assume my level is 75, so I can make a rock in 7.5 seconds. Amount of rocks I can make in 30 seconds =30/(7.5+0.5)=3.75. Round to 4. Time to make 4 rocks =4x(7.5+0.5)= 32 seconds. So mine 4 rocks in a go for 32 seconds.