When completing missions, some ore is wasted, depending on the characteristics of the equipment used. Generated resources do not imply redundancy, taking into account waste during mining. There are no warnings that the modules used prevent mission completion due to some resource being wasted. Theref…

After DT the mission can no longer be completed; new resources were not generated.

Yet another lesson learned. Never let a mission run past downtime…

You’ve misunderstood the problem! Due to waste, the resource ran out before downtime. It’s impossible to complete the mission. I waited for downtime in hopes of replenishing the resource. I think this used to happen, but I had to mine the entire resource, not just the missing portion. And there’s no…

Then just use Equipment without waste …

The mining lasers aren’t the problem. There is a bug with using mining drones for mission ore. If they pop an asteroid, and you tell them to harvest the next asteroid before they return to your ship with the ore they are carrying, the ore just goes into the nether and you will come up short.

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