(03-02-2015, 06:21 PM)Pancakes Wrote: A) The mining fields are accessible to pirates/hostiles.
Sorry that's not possible at the moment. A single HF can camp the jump hole that the pirate will use in order to enter Vespucci or the Freelancer station.
Giving ore fields into a homeworld is something that no dev had ever done so and with good reasons. Time will prove me right.