Re: remote mining
As I said over in the FAQ thread, now that asteroids can have resource values up to 300%, I plan to use remote mining more often. It still has drawbacks (researching up to cruisers, so you can put space yards on a ship, researching base stations/starbases and/or better remote mining components); but it may be faster to build a remote mining base in an asteroid system than it is to set up a new colony. And the asteroid systems are likely to have 2x the resource value. Not to mention the fact that if you colonize a non-breathable atmosphere planet you can't put many mining facilities on it.
I'd also guess that if you use the "colonize only breathable" and/or "colonize only home planet type" options, remote mining becomes even more important...
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