Are there any plans to build in a system/enhancement to anchor a ship to an asteroid while landed on it? This is an important issue for miners!asked by Mocklantors

I don't know whether you're going to need to anchor a ship to an asteroid. If you are out in space and there are no external forces then your ship should just stay there while you are working on the asteroid, and a lot of the times you'll also be in your ship while you are mining the asteroid. So I'm not sure we definitely need the anchor thing.Potentially if there was issues with that then perhaps we can: it's not technically that difficult to do. But in the first iteration of the mining design that's not something we were considering because we were basically thinking that the ship was going to stay there right next to rock and you'll mostly be on your ship doing the mining then if you EVA'ed out to go after a really small diamond seam or something the ship will be floating there in space which you can see now. If you park your ship next to an asteroid, EVA out and fly around: it's still there. So in terms of anchoring it to it I don't know. I mean there could be a concern about someone stealing it but we're going to put in enhanced key-lock stuff in for the game so people can't just walk in and start up your ship without doing something.