Fair enough...not required to like it
Can't most surface mined stuff be mined from asteroids? I thought so, though I may be missing something.
I still don't get your combat point though. I have literally decimated a ground installation from above while avoiding missile fire from a Goliath skimmer and then engaging the bases fighter escorts...all while fighting against gravity and getting pelted by AA guns.
Some can. Some cant.
Some can be obtained by missions but that takes 20 times the time to get thqn just going down to surface.
Surface combat now surprises me.
Last time i came to a surface base.
I could not target anything of the ground stuff.
Meaning i could not attack with the ship.
It only became a contact when i switched to srv.
And well.
Ship combat only happens by interdiction or when you attack a base etc.
I am not a criminal and rarely haul near planets so this doesnt happen to me.
What i am talking about would be for example a conflict zone right above the surface.
Ir an res zone with mining skimmers etc.
And attackable ground targets. (Which at least ladt time i tried was not possible)