[gregebowman]

I'm fairly new to this game, just having discovered it while reading a review of it in PC Gamer. After playing the demo, I had to get the game so that I could get the manual. Well, to say the least, the manual was a disappointment. It didn't cover nearly as much info as I thought it should have. So I've got several questions.

1. How do you effectively use the robot miners? Do you just put them on a ship and just park it in an asteroid field?

2. What is the best way to create ringworlds or sphere worlds? since the components are so much, the only way I've been able to do it is to create a ship with a shipyard in it and create the largest space stations with one component each. that takes a lot of stations before you can build something. Isn't there a more economical way of doing this?

3. Also, I'm trying to get a hang on all of these mods. I've downloaded some races, but when I try to do a quick game, not all of the races show up. How do I get them all to appear?