Mining

[Johnk]

I noticed in the Shattered Worlds mod for freelancer that they have those big large Asteroids in a Mining field.
I had no idea what they were for until i saw a guy coming in a Mining ship(quite expensive) and retracting the arms which was inside the ship and made some sparks.
He was mining the Rock like in Real space mining.He got like 2000-4000 units of that rock.Cant we have something like that in discovery?
In every Field have like 4-5 of these things scattered?Its better than shooting those tiny rocks.Like we target the asteroid field and select from the guns menu those 2 arms?(This option is avaible if we have those rocks) and we like fire at it.
but there will be no firing coming from it. Instead the ship will automaticlly go to the rock and start doing its job.
Lets the owner of the ship Relax and do something in the mean time while its being mined? Like mabye will take 10-20 minutes? and the units will be like 2000. So the guys can shoot small and large rocks. Also mabye the barge can Join in.
With its refireney.But only the Hegomen Can mine those rocks( large Ones).
And Every server restart the rocks comes.
Its like codies.
Also when mining Make the asteroid Shrink outt of existence or something to tlet it know its been mined?

Any Feedback?