Okay let me preface this with the fact that I know the core how it is now isn't going to be the same as the core when the game is produced. I get that.
But my question is if it truly is going to be one of the highest goals for us as knights what is stopping us from pumping all of our minerals into the first gate possible the minute the game is live? If gates work how I think they work it is very likely the first gate would end up with enough stuff in it to have a path directly to the core which kinda ruins the surprise/appeal of the core.
A possible solution I came up with last night when talking this through with another tester is that the core itself could also shift with the clockworks every x amount of hours. This would also encourage friendly (or not so friendly =P) competition between guilds, groups, and individual knights who would race to be the first ones to conquer the core before it rotated out of position.
Interesting! That sounds like it could make for a very interesting setup indeed.
Though, thinking about it outside of gameplay mechanics, a core of a planet is pretty static in relation to the planet itself, don'tcha think? :P It'd make no sense if it could rotate out of position, at least not without causing the whole planet to start coming apart at the axles.
I wonder what the devs think of the idea.