Are resources finite?

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A quick question for those who've played the beta:

Do crystal and metal asteroids eventually become empty and run out material, or will mines be able to extract resources from them indefinitely? (While they're normally inexhaustable in a standard 4X game, I wasn't sure if that would be the case with Sins, since it's a 4X-RTS game.)
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Yes they run out but you can research a tech called orbital refinement which sends out large ships to the depleted resources to pick up whats left. Slower but that never stops.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
No, they don't.

Earlier betas had resources that ran out, but even in the outdated beta4, asteroids are in-exhaustible.

Orbital Refineries now just provide increased resource collection instead of compensating for depleted asteroids.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Tsed is correct here.
Asteroids no longer run out of materials.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
and with good reason, games become incredibally slow when you rely on refineries.