Sorry if this has already been posted:
I agree that the mining is a bit ... ugh.. at times. What I have noticed is that you can unlock RESOURCE pods as the game progress. One of those pods is a resource gathering pod. They give you a hefty amount of return every hour or so. This is one way you can avoid mining. And it is unlockable very early.
Hope this helps.
You're right of course. The pods can help but that creates another annoyance where I have to return to the ship or else it stops collecting those resources.
It's a pain to be in the bathroom on ship in the first place, it's another to be in the bathroom and my watch goes off and I have to hurry to the console to get minerals so the timer will start again.
But I am going a bit off here. It's not like I don't want mining to be part of the game. I just want it to be better than it is rather than something I try desperately to avoid like headlock noogies from Drack. His arm may be prosthetic but his armpits are not. It's gross under there.
Ha! Yeah, I hear you on that.
One feature I'm wishing for is being able to GO ON SHIP WITHOUT TAKING OFF EACH TIME! because that would save me (and everyone i'm sure) a huge headache about going to the ship and "doing A B C".
And yeah, avoid Drack headlocks. And headbutts. He's got spike old age krogan spurs. Damn things break skin on us squishy humans fairly easy.
I think those planet scans where we find HUGE amounts of resources that turn out to be enough to craft only a handgun? Yeah, I think that those pods we unlock for minerals could be directed to mine scanned mining areas on remote locations, providing regular amounts of certain resources accordingly to where you direct them. When you have no pods, you would get a small amount of discovered mining place at first, but later, after unlocking those pods, you could make a profit from it, whilst helping supplying the Nexus.
For me, it would feel like an elegant point making other ordinary planets more useful then our currently once-in-a-lifetime visit.
