Mining drones already mine and return, and cycle. Why do they need to be automated? How hard is it to target an asteroid and tell the drones to mine. They do relatively low output (excluding rorqual drones) and stay on target - I fully don’t understand how making them auto select roids would benefit anyone in anyway. For instance, you wouldn’t even be able to mine the most optimal ore. They’d just mine whatever they like.
Also, this looks cool. [ Proposal: A minigame to make mining suck less ] It’d be cool to have a minigame that could increase crit chance by one or two percent.