Astroid clusters!

[wilhil]

Hi

you know how there are some systems that have one sun in the middle surrounded by approx 15 asteroids that seem to be orbiting it.

I get a ship yard ship, and make a starbase on it and just fill it up with one sort of miners, and build them all around. but I noticed that the ai builds planets all around them.

can you mine from space if you populate a planet? because I think it would be more efficent if I am to create a planet, put a valve improvement on it, then can I still mine from a star base, or only from the planet? and when you create a planet does it have the same % as the asteroids did?

Just want people opinions on this!

thanks