[Derek]

One Last point - I usually run such a surplus of orgs and rads off planetary production that I don't really care about the org/rad maintenance numbers on the remote mining bases. When you already produce thousands of kT more than you can use (or store), who cares what the maintenance cost is? So I usually just use the mining bases for minerals.

Unless, of course, you play one of the many mods that alters the costs and makes radioactives much more important, and increases the importance of even organics. P&N is one such mod, as is mine, Derek's Mod Gold. Try one of those, and it really changes your perspective on which planets and asteroid fields are important, and which aren't...

Derek