Do asteroid mines run out??????

[🍔 Mentally Tribbled 🍔]

Hi there, sorry i'm new to this game, i only just bought it yesterdays so yeah still a noob. anyways when i started i literally dropped right next to an unclaimed large asteroid (the ones you can build mines on) i claimed it naturally but my question is this if i build mine on it will it eventually run or is it an indefinate resource generator???? i honestly don't know if anyone does can you please let me know, i'm still trying to figure out like 90% of this thing so yeah.

[Dragon]

The mines you build on those large claimable asteroids are only for mining commodity resources (like aluminium) and not material resources used for building ships (like iron and titanium), unless I missed something somewhere. You have to mine them normally if you want the materials. The commodity resources a mine produces is infinite though.

Asteroids do run out and don't regenerate/respawn if you mine them normally, if you mine them out, they're gone forever. The same counts for stations you (or another faction) destroys or pirate sectors you clear out. The whole galaxy is pretty static and dormant at the moment and not really sandbox just yet. There's no "do what you want, where you want, how you want" since the game constantly forces you to move on.

This will eventually change though, and you can expect to see the galaxy become more and more self-sustaining after the forthcoming alliances update. The out-of-sector loading addressed in that update will open up a lot of avenues for further dynamics to be added.

[🍔 Mentally Tribbled 🍔]

thanks for the reply. I know about the little asteriods for ship buildings being finite and running out it was the big large asteroids that you built mines on i wasn't sure on. i didn't want to save up like say 10 mill in credits for building a mine for it to just run out in like 2 days and then i'm sat there going well ....... that's 10 mill down the hole. I wanted to make sure that i could build one and it be they like forever just generating credits for me which like a big thing for me a moment cause defo need those LOL. anyways thanks again for the quick response. glad to know that once i build i don't have to worry about it running out.