Asteroid cluster must be inside your ZOC
Published on Saturday, January 29, 2022 By
Case:
- Mousing over an asteroid belt gives the tool-tip, "Send and Asteroid Miner here to construct a mining base. Mining bases provide Minerals to the nearest world.
- Send an Asteroid Miner to an asteroid cluster outside of your ZOC amd try to mine asteroids.
- Receive the message, "Unable to build mining base" with the text, "Asteroid cluster must be inside your ZOC in order to be able to build a mining base on it."
Issue/Enhancement:
- I'm not really surprised by the requirement for the ZOC condition and I kind of expected this would happen, but I decided to try to be sure since this is a brand new game and maybe there is a different mechanic. The only reason I tried was because the help text reads, "Mining Bases provide Minerals to the nearest world." I thought maybe they worked like colonies and just sent their development back to the closest world, but this is incorrect.
- The tooltip should clarify that the asteroid cluster must be within the players ZOC before they try to send an asteroid miner to mine there.

