Starting RP Value...missing?

[xeryon]

Playing Devil's Advocate for a moment, even scraps of transnewtonian minerals can be valuable to a player with the wealth to spare, especially since a player doesn't need to move population or (auto)mines or mass drivers to the Civilian Mining Complex.

Tis true.  Really depends on your starting situation which way you go.  I have changed to buying the minerals in many occasions to supplement my own mining when in a crunch.

[Person012345]

In my experience, you can abandon CMC's in the same way you'd abandon any colony.