TLDR Mining speed chip is pointless, Meteorites and annoying. Change them to be more interactive

So doing my 3rd (4th) play through also doing a play through with a friend, i have come to be annoyed by the mining speed chip and meteorites specifically the fact that the mining speed chip at BEST saves you 1 second.

If you count when mining it takes about 3-4 seconds to mine something with a T4 chip it changes to about 2-3 seconds which is roughly its 40% sure.......but its pointless especially for the resources it cost around the time you unlock it.....Why not have it give a chance to also double to ore, or even have a separate chip entirely for it.

Regardless the mining chip is not the issue, its that fact you don't have something that takes longer to mine, this is where meteorites come in.

When meteorites drop, they explode dropping resources YAY but now all that debris is in the way and you cant get to it until it de-spawns on top of that you just pick the resources up you don't even mine them (makes the mining chip less useful)

Now you could just take the route where the debris de-spawns faster / it just doesn't have collision / less of it OR

You could make it that the centre of the meteorite can be mine, but it takes time, so consider this.
Basic meteorite rain happens you mine the "centre" of the meteorite and it gives say 5 random basic resources of the base 5 with a low chance of ALSO giving aluminium
(which is what it already drops so nothing changes)
Uranium and Iridium Meteorites can be changed the same you could even have it they have a low chance to give basic resources as well
Super alloy/Osmium i think would be fine with what they drop

As for the mining time it could be like say 7-10 seconds to mine the entire thing its a considerable amount of time......WHICH makes the mining chip have an actual use.
Cutting 10 seconds down to 6 is a decent time for a t4 chip, if 10 seems to long make it 8 or 7 the low tier chips will still feel like they are helping while keeping that t4 chip in a good place.
You could even have a slider at world creation to make it how fast it is the mine them, meaning the player can chose to make it better or worse, there is even space to add in a t5 chip for 50% cutting mining time in half.

Worse case you could even have a legacy option or just an option on world creation to turn this on or off.

IMO i think this would be a triple win.
1. Mining chip has an actual use
2. Meteorites are less annoying and more interactive
3. Less physics no more need for resources rolling around, just the debris

Cheers for reading GLHF