What to do when asteroids are exhausted?

[Arkcon]

When you add sats, make sure you research and use the level 3 robominers. You get the same rate of depletion, so why shouldn't you get the best yield. A base is really the way to go however.

Have you seen this: Link to Encyclopedia Malfadorica entry

[tesco samoa]

u could always convert them to planets... put value improvements on them... blow them up and repeat...

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Dobian:
Several of my asteroid fields are now exhausted of minerals...

Depletion of minerals by remote mining is figured in the simplest way possible. It depelets at one rate per turn no matter how much minerals your pulling from it. A SAT maybe cheaper, but your wasting a lot of potential resources from that field.
So the more experienced players prefer a large base with many of one type of miner. When the field is depleted of Minerals then the base can be refitted for RADs or Organics.
Remember the Base gets a maintenance reduction and a ship doesn't. A ship may cost more in maintenance than it can mine.
One more thing.... With the right tech a planet can be created from an asteroid field. The planet will have the fields resource Ratings. So think twice before remote mining.

[LostCommander]

Is it possible to set the game to not reduce the value of the remotely mined space object?

[Krsqk]

It's in Settings.txt:

"Remote Mining Decreases Asteroid Value := True"
Just switch to False. I assume it works for planets, too.

[Dobian]

Yeah, I'm going to switch to bases next time (actually this time, because I'm already starting my third game!) for remote mining.

[Puke]

you can always blow up planets to make more asteroids. sure, its satisfying to land the marines and seize a planet... but its alot more satisfying to send in a robotic organics harvister to suck up the remains of the 40 billion inhabitants of someones homeworld that you just blew into chunks with a techtonic bomb.