I can now report back following my little experiment and am happy to report that the yield 2 Nividium Asteroid which was fully mined OOS and automated did indeed respawn. It actuallly respawned a yield 2 Nividium asteroid which seems strange as I heard respawns were randomised but as its a one roid test its to small a sample to rule out coincidence.Lister Of Smeg wrote: ↑Wed, 15. Sep 21, 17:00I've decided to set up an experiment and see if asteroids will respawn if mined remotely. It seems strange that we would have ship extensions that allow us to do this but would be punished by having the roids not respawn because we automate it.
I've got a Yeild 2 Nividium roid in a system which I've fully scanned, so i can set my miners to auto on that and if it respawns it will be inescapeable to spot as it will be the only unscanned roid in the system
will post back with results, reaching a bit asking this but if a dev could confirm or deny would save me a day testing
The initial smash was done whilst I was OOS (infact the whole process was whilst i was OOS) by my Consus which has MDS installed on the front turret. It was then assisted by my Athena (which does not have any MDS, but frag bomb launchers instead). Funny thing is I have since mined out another yield 2 Nividium roid (this time the initial smash done by me (part 2 of the test)) which gave significantly less (around 1000 less, roughly 1/3) Nividium than the first roid did.
Still, ultimate conclusion... feel free to automate it fully and rest assured that the roids will respawn