I know there are "asteroid miners" in the game (but I can't remember where I saw them). They mine asteroids, but I think they are static buildings . But I too share the crazy dezire to mine asteroids or ice fields.

Well if your REALLY bored you could go to those fields and shoot the little ones and get stuff off of them... But only if you got nothing else to do

You know I think I understand what your saysing, like what would it take to make the larger rocks destroyable, i suppose think like the old asteroids game, blowing up the large chunks into smaller ones being able to mine bits out the more you blow out... Seems like a reasonable idea to me...
I seem to recall seeing something where onw of those rocks had a hit point value of 20000, but I could be mistaken...
WIll see if I can relocate that...



Emo1313 - Freelancer File Repositry
http://freelancer.solutionvii.com

I have found a way to make the small asteroids highly profitable:

\SOLAR\ASTEROIDS\name_of_asteroid_field.ini
(I used the ew04_napo_nomad_asteroids.ini in Omicron Theta)

[LootableZone
...
asteroid_loot_count = 1, 1
dynamic_loot_count = 1, 1
asteroid_loot_difficulty = 1
dynamic_loot_difficulty = 1

Changing values for the asteroid_loot_count made no difference, even though the "dynamic" asteroids were fun to hit jackpot with every shot.
But that just won't do... The bigger asteroids are just calling out to me to give them an ass full of laser.

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I'm going to look it up as well. I'm really addicted to mining and shooting tiny rocks does sound rather stupid. If I want to mine I want to mine big asteroids.

Hmm...eventually the asteroid field might disappear...lol.