Topic: Mined-out grid still on directional?
Is it intended that mined-out fields still show on directional?
I found an "X" on D-scan for a mined-out Silgium field: scores of black or greenish-black stubs. Tried mining some just to be sure. All "no minerals". Area scan showed 0.09% for the field-- in the old system, this percent might have allowed a few minable blocks. However...
If there were 2 or 3 tiny stubs amongs the hundreds, there was no way to distinguish them-- also my idea of "spend some time having fun in an online game" does not include sifting through dozens and dozens of mined out blocks for the one that may still have 5% left-- especially if maybe the original mining group missed it under a plant or something.
I understand the original intent, but I am hoping that this is a bug and that, at the moment, the D-scan and area percents are too sensitive.
It is counterproductive and non-engaging to spend a long time first on D-Scan, then in sifting through almost-exhausted tiles. To put it simply: I used to like occasional mining, singly or in a group. If the system is functioning as intended, I would be tempted never to mine except in big, previously-found fields, and leave it to some other poor unfortunates to find the leavings around the fringes-- if they even exist. If that is the intent, then it is successful, but I worry about its impact on the game.
Is the intent that we just keep looking fiurther and further away and end up fragmenting all the fields, until we take the region below the magical minimum to re-stock the fields?
Or is the system bugged?