[LintMan]

I discovered early on that a miner ship costs more in maintenance than it can mine, so I gave up on them until someone here (Saben?) discovered that you can mount the mining components in large satellites, so you build the satellites, load 'em in a satellite transport, and deploy them in the asteroid field. Apparently they work quickly enough that you can use them to fill your treasury and then retrieve them when full. He said it worked quite well.

In my current game, I intend to do this, but have only teched up to medium satellites (it's expensive research) so far, and they are too small.

Storms hide ships so in theory, you could park a spy ship or even a whole fleet in a storm in an enemy's system, and your enemy could be completely unaware of it's presence.

Since you don't get to see enemy ship movements on their turns, an enemy ship in
your system can just "disappear". Unless you have a view on all the surrounding systems or know the warp points are out of range, you can't be sure if it warped out or is still lurking in a storm. I don't know if the AI can be fooled if you tried this trick.

I also think there's high-end tech that lets you create/destroy storms.

Anyways, that's the only reasons I can think of to go into one.