[DirectorTsaarx]

The convoy idea could be expanded a bit to make remote mining more useful. Rather than mining reducing an asteroid field's value by a percentage point per turn per ship/base, have asteroid fields always use the "finite resources" settings. Then, rather than automatically getting the resources from those mines, the resources have to be transported back to a spaceport (of course, resources should also be able to be stored at the asteroid field until a convoy comes by). I'm not certain what to do about planets, since eventually a player may want to colonize a planet that's been remotely mined. Maybe the reduction per turn per ship/base should be changed to a reduction per YEAR per COMPONENT.