[Arkcon]

Lately, I'm using remote mining a little bit more, but I still don't base my economy on it.

Here's something fun to do: Build a battle station, with weapons, shields and other combat components -- and just enough mineral miners and rad extrators to cover maintenance -- at an asteroid field. Somewhere deep in AI territory. Free listening post. If you give it enough teeth, it's something to waste their time on when war comes. Notice, I'm not baseing my economy on it.

If the extrator was smaller and cheaper, I might put it on more ships. Just a little pause here and there to send some rare elements back home.

If the AI could be programed to put a mineral miner on it's shipyard spacestations, it could be useful to it, say when you're playing Fyron's mod.