Mining Stations Anywhere#24

Currently mining stations can only be placed or landed near an asteroid. This is an issue for mobile factories, especially with multiple mining components as it limits where they can be landed. The proposed change is to allow them to be placed anywhere, but turn a different color due to inactivity.

An alternative might be allowing ships with mining stations to land anywhere, but if they’re not in range of a valid target the landing template turns orange instead of green and gets a asteroid-low symbol over each one (for the color impaired).

Big +1. I would love to have mobile mining ships, to reduce the toil of setting up new mining outposts.