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I would like to see the current asteroid belts simply be placed in a ring formation around the sun with about a dozen fields available. Maybe put some "empty roids" in the background to complete the picture of a ring of asteroids. This would be in line with their latest concept of changing the "spacescape".

An expansion later, they could possibly change some other things, such as making only veldspar and scordite commonly available, and making the more valuable asteroids available in a similar manner as ice fields. Like, if you mine out the plagioclase ore anomaly, which is in a random spot somewhere along the ring of asteroids, then it would respawn some time later in another spot of the asteroid ring or even another system's asteroid ring (imo they should also somewhat randomize the systems where ice spawns).

These seem like fairly minimal effort changes that could open the field for something larger that I can't think of right now. Mostly I just think it would be nice/more immersive/less silly than the current asteroid fields.

Edit: I should add that only the first paragraph is really the bit that I expect/want when thinking of 'ring mining' right now. The other stuff is just me rambling. There's of course also the thing for the rings around some planets, which is what people might mean when talking about ring mining.

First, thank you for replying, I know the CSM sometimes can't or won't comment on certain issues but it is nice when they do.

Secondly, I'm not entirely sure why you have assumed that Ring Mining must be in someway linked to Moon mining and Tech II production, if I'm missing a post, announcement or dev blog then please let me know.

My purpose was simply to show player support for the activity of Ring Mining as another branch of mining and not for it's larger implications on production, PoSs or anything else. I saw it as an alternative activity to mining Belts and Clouds and something for miners to do, not all miners can or want to maintain and manage a PoS or it's production chain. Also, with the trend of moving certain items out of NPC hands and making them player created comes a potential need for new minerals, ores or resources that Ring mining could provide without stepping into the area of Tech II production.

Finally (not aimed at Mynnna but general readers), when I say Ring mining it's important to understand I mean Planetary rings and not Rings of Asteroids, that would be Belt mining and is an entirely different debate.

Thank you.

Soundwave's initial comments at last fanfest talked about putting moon minerals in the rings.

And in response to the OP, mining in general badly needs a revamp and expansion, whether that specifically involves ring mining or some other new type(s) of mining is of lesser importance.