How are resources going to be handled in the PU? Once a field has been mined will we have to wait for it to respawn or will new asteroid fields created elsewhere in the same system?asked by Zipzag

Our plan is that most of the elements around the universe are persistent. So there will definitely be massive tracts of minerals in an asteroid field, but once it's mined out, you'd have to move onto a new area. Most systems will have lots of opportunities for mineral mining, like asteroid fields, and many such fields won't even be marked on maps.So there will be a whole Explorer/Prospector Career path where you're going around flying around in empty space looking for asteroid fields, and then scanning them to see if they've got minerals, and then maybe laying a claim to a certain area to file that in the UEE at the 'Office of Mineral Rights' (or whatever we're calling it in the UE Empire).Right now, as Tony and I talk about it, we're gonna have it so that the fields don't regenerate, but longer term, we may do it because we don't wanna drive everyone out of the center systems once it's mined out. But we're planning to have quite a lot of resources everywhere that'll be quite hard for the players to exhaust right away or anytime soon. So there you go. Mostly, you'd find new asteroid fields created elsewhere in the same system.