First of all let me say that i like this server but second that im not some hardcore grinder.
im still enjoying both aspects of the game which means that i like pve stuff too even when i mostly just pvp ... i also played aop through almost the entire season which is the server with the lowest grinding level ....
so i thought to myself what this privatemines are for and ive encountered various problems within the current system,
1. of all private mines are essential for every player who likes to craft some basic stuff
2. thing is that private mine running is time consuming as hell which isnt a good feature imo , because from what i have gathered from other people its crazy ... they level 5+ slaveralts just to buy a whole system of private mines and then have to micromanage it which takes even more time and isnt even fun in my opinion
3. is my suggestion to make private mines a less brainless butthurt mindless grinding thing because its essential to have them if u wanna craft ...
just make private mines more expensive then add autoslaves to them (for example u can choose from maximum slots of slaves to just one slave , like from higher and lower prize for the mine) put some crates at the entrance which will be loaded with all types of minerals and ores slowly (i think with some simple script like so that resources wont spawn all at one time but slowly like some curve literary with the same speed like u would do it manually in the current system , depending of course of the amounts of auto slaves u have in mine) > this would prevent useles alt leveling because slaver alts no longer needed plus we would get rid of that boring micro management.
if u want to make it more interesting you could add also some icechest into the mine which u need to fill each day with jet or food or drinks or all of it so that auto slaves will keep working (some simple stuff like check for item x y z * number of slaves / day , if check is false other script which spawn ressources outside will simple stopp till check is true)
other things which could be changed to make it more interesting but only doable if brahmin weight will be limited someday is to replace crates with a caravan cart which will be filled same way as crates . this would only be a immersional change because we all know that players can just grab the ressources and put it into their car , on the other hand grabbing all resources manually will be more time consuming so i think it would be a good thing overall . tbh i thought about some similar caravan run type but i think that needs alot more of rethinking because people would just drive the caravan to the tent which is right near to the mines , it could be fun but needs some more work to be done like for example some new world map locations or location where u can only drive these caravans to , to unload them to prevent the tent near mine thing (for example another type of mining location map where u need to unload the caravan and pay the guards (autoslaves) for the run. like some mining agency map , could aslo be done with some kind of taxes instead of paying them for the run , like 10% of ressources just for example , this would make more sense for the need of going there. it would make also more fun and it would add some pve to it which means it wouldnt be always 100 percent profit if u have bad luck all stuff could be gone and u still need to pay some taxes haha
well just some thoughts ...
the overall idea of this suggestion is to reduce the grindlevel to have some fun with the same result from current system ...