Asteroid Mining Bases not paying off

[PhonkLover]

I'm a bit irritated that I spent around 30 million credits trying to get an asteroid mining base operational. The base sold Zinc for the first couple hours, making me about 20k credits. Then the npc haulers stopped coming and I'm not making anything off this base. I'm about to dismantle it and shoot the asteroid to death. Biggest waste of effort and credits, why is this even in the game?

[Zaflis]

I made a gold/platinum mine for my second mining base, and it keeps selling all its produces. I set price to -5% to lure in buyers, after also checking that there is nearby jewelry factories that have high demand for said metals. Overall i think it just about covers my crew upkeep but not make more profit. It's XL size so it has more simultaneous mining going on.

But i have to agree most things aren't profitable at all. Maybe you can find use of them if you combine with a manufacturing station, and keep delivering straight to it in same system with cargo shuttles. But that too comes down to if your end-products have buyers nearby.

edit: Oh and don't forget to check if you have the bug that cargo ships are stuck. Clear the asteroids more.

[PhonkLover]

It does look like the single cargo ship that is here is stuck. No new ships are coming to my sector. Ive had my prices at -25% and the stocks are full. So you reccoment destorying some asteroids to clear the route better for them?
How do I help this stuck one?

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the only fix i now is if you kill the cargos with an alliance ship so they still come because your player reputation is still good / and else i noticed even if you have bad reputation (red) they will come and buy things once you jumped out of the sector (so if its loaded and your not inside) hope that can help you a bit (overall the stuck seems to happen if the sektor is unloaded and loaded again)

[crossorion2004]

If you are in Single Player /Destroy kills off the cargo ship without any consequences.