Mining actual asteroids

Currently what the game calls asteroid mining is actually mining ring fragments in the rings of a gas giant. I've tried actual asteroid mining in asteroid clusters and it sucks.
How about giving us a reason to mine actual asteroids, rather than just gas giant rings? Besides, if you look at the rings of Saturn for example, the fragments range from micromillimetres across to a max of about 10 metres across and the entire ring system varies between 10metres and a kilometre thick. Very different to what is portrayed in the game. None of these could house the bases we see in hollowed out ring fragments.

Many systems generate asteroid clusters, and given that most asteroid clusters represent failed or smashed planets they should be rich in minerals. Give us a mechanic to mine them. It should be easy, you already have it, you're just mistakenly applying it to gas giant rings instead of asteroid clusters.
 
none of the asteroids in game have a max of "10 meters" and there are only specific asteroid bases right now because frontier hasnt implimented player owned asteroid bases yet. the 1km + asteroids wont be around commonly till they implement the player owned asteroid bases.

infact the max size of mineable asteroids in the game are upwards of 200 meters in diameter, so i have no clue where you are getting your measurements because the asteroids are clearly bigger than the anaconda/cutter/corvette too.

also most asteroid clusters DO NOT represent smashed planets. are you that deeply mathematically inept that you think a handfull of asteroids are actually once a planet? Planets have Millions of times more mass than any of the asteroids in planetary or solar asteroid rings.

Also you can already mine asteroid clusters, you literally just drop down into them, but you will get the same series of asteroids in the clusters as you get in the rings.

(also kudos to you if this is a troll thread)
 
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also most asteroid clusters DO NOT represent smashed planets. are you that deeply mathematically inept that you think a handfull of asteroids are actually once a planet? Planets have Millions of times more mass than any of the asteroids in planetary or solar asteroid rings.

Was coming here to say exactly that, but here's some facts for the OP;

The total mass of the Asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0 to 3.6×1021 kilograms, which is 4 percent of the Earth's Moon. Of that total mass, one third is accounted for by Ceres alone.

So a third of our asteroid belt is in one body, and there are other similar sized bodies in the asteroid belt. Most of the mass is found in just a few bodies, Vesta, Ceres and eight others over 300km long. It would be no problem grabbing one of these and dragging it to wherever you want to hollow out as a base. Essentially most peoples idea of the asteroid belt originates in movies and books which mostly get everything wrong.
 
OK... Gee thanks Azmuth for diving straight in with the name calling... I guess I am mathematically inept. But that is totally irrelevant to the question I was asking. Still, thanks for the constructive criticism.
I think you'll find I was trying to raise the point that the rings of gas giants are NOT asteroids, and in general are tiny fragments of ice and/or rocky materials, ranging from micro-millimetres in size up to about 10 metres, not the giant things we all mine in places like Delkar.

However, as the default position appears to be "jump down the throat and to hell with the details of the original post" I will quietly withdraw from this thread.
 
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