tell me these maps aren't awesome when it comes to diamond/endurium mining, even as single player. i made a long (2-3 craters making a long stretched one) crater claim on xenos several days ago and could easily pull over 2.5k endurium (and thats the low ore no less) from a very small area along the map border. that is a LOT of money in a real short amount of time. screw surface mining, save up and buy a few bio scanners and lvl 3 mineral scanners and setup the landing pad defenses and go digging deep for tons of gredits.
...and no, i still only have that ice planet unlocked >.> haven't been too active on the game lately due to playing some games on the computer instead.
edit: oh yeah, i've taken a liking to picking a corner of a map and simply mining straight down to the bedrock layer one space/block at a time while slowly expanding the hole outwards. its a bit slow but not only does it give all minerals in my path but also an ungodly amount of building resources. seriously, wth am i going to do with over 7.3k concrete, 1.7k light basalt, 8.6k dark basalt, and 3.4k common basalt (current amounts)? thats insane considering that, IF i build anything big with all of that, it'll be impossible to safely defend the constructs in single player mode without the bugs ripping it to shreds. >.> thats why all these resources are going to pile up in my inventory and go unused aside from basic landing pad defenses which don't use anything remotely close to scratching those numbers.
. It's the closest thing to bug-resistant as you'll find in the game.