Stockpile for when a use is assigned? If they are made integral to say RnD, price will skyrocket.

I had a issue where I and another member of my faction could not have the RMS mined from a asteroid field go straight to the faction. I know this was changed but now. I'm able to have the RMS go straight to the faction but 2 members of my faction don't have this option when starting to mine a deposit. Is their something specific that needs to be assigned to them or is this a bug

Yup, they need the "Can Perform Mining" privilege from the faction.

Thank you I see that now it was weird that my faction leader didn't have that assigned.

The behavior is a bit odd when new privileges are created. Leaders are required to visit the privileges page in order for the system to update correctly.

When prospecting and finding a deposit, but it is not revealed, you can reprospect the same square to try again.

Regarding this, is there a minimum time to wait before reprospecting can be successful?

I ask because I prospected 7 times within the same day, the same deposit, and failed each time. I came back after approximately 24 hours, reprospected, and succeeded on the first try.

I fully acknowledge that could be RNG/coincidence. But with a 60% success rate, failing 7 times in a row was more than three sigma so I wanted to double check. Thanks.

The calculations are independently random. There's no required cooldown between attempts.

Thank you for the quick reply!

“You will be notified of the distance to the nearest unrevealed deposit if it is within 2 units of your location. ”

Is it possible for multiple deposits to spawn in the same 5x5 Y-8 scanning area? If there are 2 deposits within distance 2, would it show “the nearest is 2” or would it mention both deposits?

I answered my own question:

“ You have completed prospecting within the Asteroid Field… You found 13,892 units of Rockivory. Sensors have picked up a strong trace for an unknown deposit 1 square away. ”

Follow up question: the rules seem to read that contrary to multiple RM deposits in the same 5x5 square, you WOULD receive notifications of both the nearest RMs AND the nearest habitable asteroid in the same 5x5 square. Can anyone confirm that?

If there are 2 deposits within distance 2, it will just say there is a faint trace 2 squares away. It will not indicate there are 2 of them.

There is a separate notification to materials for any traces of planetoids.