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- Placing the station such that safer mining locations will be closer than hostile ones (not always possible/desirable).
- Not assigning the related Mine ship to the Manager, leaving supply to NPCs or manual trading and mining.
- Placing the station in a system where required materials are sold in various rare stations (spoiler link).
- An alternative to 1 through the HoL DLC is to place a Warehouse somewhere useful relative to the desired harvestable ware (s). Then assign miners, serup setup the Warehouse to need the ware(s), then use your traders to buy from it and sell to the station needing the ware (s).
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