[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
The biggest problem with that is that to build a construction ship requires a cruiser hull or larger. And by the time I have researched cruiser tech, not to mention battle station tech, my empire has expanded to the point where it's much easir to just pump out a half dozen colony ships and plant some more colonies.

Unfortuntly, when you really need remote mining to work, early in the game, there is no practical method of employing it. By the time you have the tech to make it worthwhile, it's no longer needed.

Geoschmo

You could fix this by reducing both the size and output of Remote Extraction components in the same proportions. The 'efficiency' needs to be carefully balanced to keep it from being too easy to do, but I agree that the components are too large at present. Slash the size and output in half and they're much more usable.