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Originally posted by Stone Mill:

Mark- on remote mining, it is something I tried at first and never really found a handle on how to do it efficiently. After reading your Posts and those of others, I see how it can make sense. I may try it out again, and re-draw my initial impression of remote mining...

I think the thing about remote mining ships that puts people off is the fact that they run out of supply so quickly, and they wonder what they're going to do about the management hassle of dealing with all these stranded spaceships.

Emergency Resupply solves this problem of course, but that's not really "early game" tech.

Actually, my solution has been to ignore the problem. They may be out of fuel, but they go on happily mining. And if eventually you want to replace them, just move them off their asteroids, send in a warship, and blow them up! It's not a completely optimum use of resources, but they paid for their investment cost a long time ago.