this process could be one of the processes, maybe for the medium sized bodies according to katorones scale. so on smaller scale you use the mining beam. on medium scales you use the drone-based process. (maybe an intermediate step with mobile mining bases, attaching to asteroids and mining them dry...
I have been following the development of this game from an external perspective. I just joined the forums and tried searching for "mining" and it was too common of a word apparently so I'm posting this. I'm sure this has been brought up in here (I hope at least) but wanted to put in my 2 cents: Firs...