Sounds awesome! Thanks so much, Cannon (and anyone else who's working on this stuff, if there is anyone). Just one thing, though:
' Wrote:- something clever with the small mining ships; might settle for just giving them a higher bonus - depends on motivation
That might be nice, but that would just mean that instead of dumping your cargo bay every 5 seconds, you'd be doing it every 3 seconds. A greater annoyance for a greater yield... well, I'd rather it didn't come to that.
There were a few suggestions in this thread about that that I liked, though. Like a command that transfers all of a small-miner's ore into a nearby Hegemon or transport as it gets mined. But hell, I have no idea how possible/impossible that would be.