First mine I visited had 1 core and 3 1-star seekers. I felt that was very unfair and likewise wanted to find another game. But visiting these forums plus some very good YouTube content showed that this was actually just a little below average but not at all unfair. So the second mine had 1 core in the lobby and I was ready to turn around. But there was a room guarded by a 2-star soldier with 3 dverger gates. After about 24 hours of fighting the soldier each of those gates had a room with 3 cores. And I am one of the worst combat players in this game if not the worst so a speedrun is out of the question. It will be very grindy and tedious to a lot of folks who prefer faster paces to the game. At some point IGS will introduce configuration management and that will probably let players and multi-play admins do a lot more customization of the experience. Until then, skol!