Even better - you find that rare Aidonium asteroid - Defense 200 - and you hit it with a blast from your stack of weapons totaling 2000 - "The asteroid explodes! You're too busy trying to stay alive and fix things to gather up any of the fragments! Your ship is disabled!" IOW - if you hit an asteroid of certain compositions too hard, they explode on you! Not just Aidonium, maybe Darrinyte [we've already got a mission about how explosive this stuff is] or Pawlacite [Again, it's got to be hot stuff if it can thaw a planet!]

I love how much people like this idea. My last 2 didn't get much feed back. Anyway, on the rarity I was thinking along the same lines, maybe a tweak or so but still good.

Sizes contribute to the number you gain from destroying it.
small 0-40
average 40-75
large 75-100

Planet Destroyers could give a very large amount. depending on the asteroid it could give only a certain kind, or maybe multiple kinds of minerals. (random draw from the list maybe)

I came up with their own abilities

dynite-none
chrisium-shard splash- small shards will fly off causing minor damage (5% of your hull
darrinyte- revenge- lowers hull by 10% for 10 minutes
Hydium-shock absorber- increases defense by 25% for 5 minutes
Erixon- multi-shock-5% increase to attack and defense
Pawlacite-explosion- causes massive damage
dieterian- Freeze- asteroid shards get attached to your ship, not allowing you to attack for 5 minutes
dysillon- Booster-doubles attack and defense for 10 minutes
kurinite- reflection- chance of reflecting damage back to the attacker
aidonium- shock absorber, reflection, booster, shard splash, and multi-shock

the names might not be that good though,
also i like that idea reach

One of the other ways it could actually have an attack value is if you are attacking the mining outpost ON the asteroid, maybe even make it so you have to defeat the defenses, and then raid the base. Your raid would be based on your normal raiding numbers.

i like it, having to raid the astroid, but it should have a different name than raid, it is not like your fighting a crew, i think the correct term would be mine

Hell make it an Elite for legions.. and it has components for Legion base.. ya ya ya

No, I meant literally your crew would raid it much like they raid in PvP.

oh okay i misread that

an elite boss like that might be cool

I agree!

or multiple elites

I mentioned an example for an elite/boss in the original post. They'd be tough to break down.

big fat +1

Could always just make it give mineral points.

no it should give the minerals it is composed of, mabye the elites should give a dark smugglers cache except only for minerals

Planet Destroyer Asteroid has been destroyed
Reach gained Multi-mineral chunk

.......we can work on the name lol

Exotic matter Asteroid???? o.O

Who's to say they have uniform composition?

+1

+1. But each should have a slight chance to blow up with each hit, doing massive damage to your ship.

I like the idea of being able to use energy to obtain an extra bit of xp and minerals, but I definitely do NOT like the idea of cluttering up the battle tab.

+1 to adding this as a variable cost mission depending on the mineral. -1 to having to wade through space rocks when I'm looking for NPCs to hunt.