I'm new to the game, but a few days ago, I could mine on my tile and a close market-place tile. I used the ore for both building up cash and building up my base. Fast forward a couple days later, and I don't see any ore in either location. Since I'm on a newbie planet, I can't mine any unused tiles.
I have management to scrap together enough resources and cash (for the schematics) to build my first large miner. But that is going to be just a single resource and have limited output.
Is this the way surface ore is suppose to be? once harvested, it is gone forever? I'm pretty sure it was respawning before this weekend, but haven't seen anything new since Saturday.
From what I can tell, there is only very limited number of ways for somebody starting out to make any money. Surface mining is very tedious, but should be part of the game so starting players can progress through the starting tech and build up a decent base (I don't even have a ship to fly to another planet let alone the schematics to build just a few of the pieces).
Like I said above, I only been playing for a few days, but know the game has been around for a while. I find it hard to believe that the ore on the market place wasn't harvested LONG before I started playing, but I also don't know if it is intended this way or just a bug (really hope it is a bug because I'm very limited on where to move forward except maybe go back to Satisfactory.)
Thanks
Stew