Mining Focus: I would like to see a mining focus for each mineral. I find it odd (and annoying) that the amount of minerals you get out of the soil is solely dependent upon how accessible it is. It would therefore be nice if we could increase or decrease the mining focus for each mineral. Since these factories are very modern and specialized, they should be able to focus on certain minerals.
So how should that work?
Let's say you have the following minerals on a planet:
Duranium 2.344.415t @0,4
Gallicite 455.209t @0,1
Mercassium 12.580t @0,9
Your mines will deplete Mercassium very quickly due to the low amount AND high extraction efficiency. Gallicite and Duranium would be depleted almost at the same time due to the combination of amount and extraction efficiency. But let's say that you do have a Gallicite shortage - how convenient would it be if you could focus the mines on this planet to gallicite for a while?
These focuses should be limited though. Max double the amount should be possible. So with focus added this would look like:
Duranium @0,4 Focus:0,5 =@0,2
Gallicite @0,2 Focus:2,0 =@0,2
Mercassium @0,9 Focus:0,5 = @0,45
You would lose 1/x of the efficiency of all other minerals but gain it for the one you want to focus on. Overall you would lose, but it could be a nice help if you get into a mineral crisis... .