Once you've scanned a roid, perhaps you be able to "Enter that info into your ship computer" So, you can dock, change to your mining beam(s), and find the roid again.

Also, mining depletes minerals, so shouldnt it change the composition of the roids a little, in a heavily mined area?

Just my observations. Thanks.

"Also, mining depletes minerals, so shouldnt it change the composition of the roids a little, in a heavily mined area?"

I could be wrong, but I believe that it actually does, although in very small fractions.

It doesn't currently, but IIRC that was part of the plan, so eventually ore compositions will change.

if that's true, they should get smaller as they are mined, then pop so to speak and a new roid should take it's place. VO's roid fields are nothing like I would image they are in real space, with everything constantly moving and breaking and what have you. Simply changing the content will get boring. Would be nice to see actual, physical degridation of the roids, leading to there eventual desintigration. This would give you a reason to come back and see certain sectors.

The one problem with that is, with a persistant universe like VO, we'd eventually run out of asteroids in station sectors quite quickly, and the high-helioscene ore roids would also be gone pretty quickly, methinks.

*stockpiles*

Space Dust Collectors™

if i recall the idea was that asteroid depletion would be a part of the exploration expancion so that as 'roids becale depleted there was increasing incentive to venture out into uncharted space.

must have misunderstood me. At least in my idea, once the roid was deminished, something would pop to take its place, not necessarily the same type/composition, but another roid. Sort of like a new roid rotated from somewhere else in sector. That way there is still the same # of roids in sector, but that they are not always the same shape or size or composition. Though a degree of similar composition must remain the same due to what is available in that system. Just not exactly what was there before.