
Apparently "mining strength" listed as 12.3 is a number i have no idea what it translates to yet, although i have figured out quickly that i believe it's my total mining rating from the shepherd (12.25) that is probably just a straight addition of Shepherd, mining pods, and a hammer?
next i get a "you decide to." dialogue box with some descriptions above that. So, i wander over after clicking on it and "you decide to.
So, it's very intuitive since the first thing i did once launching was to hover over the asteroid belt next to Sindria and VOILA the first nice big asteroid i saw in the campaign map highlighted. Okay, so some reddit thread talked about hammer missiles and shepherds so i save transferred my vanilla game, stored everything and bought and outfitted a shepherd with a hammer, vulcan, 1 vent, and heavy armor, armored weapon mounts, cargo expansion and blast doors (i'd also read about how dangerous mining is) now, how the heck do i go about doing such? As i wait for any answer i'll just experiment and edit this, since i couldn't find anything on the subject specifically. I just loaded Nexerelin and SS+ solely because i really really want to mine.