Remotely Mine Asteroid Belt?

First, get up to tech level 10 in mineral, organics, or radioactive extraction (this is quite a bit more of an investment than in previous titles -- I'd love to hear why, if anybody knows). This will give you access to a "Remote [Resource Type] Extractor" component that you can put on vehicles.

Next, design a vehicle (ship, base, satellite -- whatever suits your needs, but make sure the maintenance is less than the resources you'll be getting) that has the extractor, put it in the asteroid field, and stand back.

Right now the Remote Miners almost always crash the game. Bug.

Yea I know a LOT of items require HIGH tech compared to old games. I mean you need 5 tech lvls in each ship area to get the next highest one. You need like 10 lvls in SY to get SY on stations. Not to mention I can't find a list of the tech items anywhere?!? I selected players can view whole tech tree but in game I can't find it anywhere so I know what I need to get items. Also it be nice is somewhere in item's DESC they say how much they upgrade per lvl you kinda have to figure it out on your own through testing.

If only there were a mod available that made things like this less obscure:
http://www.captainkwok.net/balancemod.php

Back on topic, the bug with remote mining is likely in the code that adds the remote income to the treasury, hence why the game crashes at turn processing or when you try and go into the Empire Options screen.

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