Minable Asteroids

After getting my mining ship steering correctly, the next step in my project was getting the asteroids mineable not just the dynamics. my goal is to make the large asteroids profitable only for the large mining ships but as of yet i cant get the large ones to explode.
I noticed that in the constants INI MAX_ASTEROID_LOOT_DAMAGE = 20000.000000 and yet the dynamic asteroids requires only 1 hit to destroy. Is this for the big asteroids? I’ve tried setting the damage value to 1.000000 and set my gun to 100,000 damage and still have no luck in destroying them. atm i’m trying this in the silverton field zone, in the field ini i changed the minedout with mineable2 asteroids. anyone have any suggestion?

I think the reason the non dynamics are undestroyable is that the [cube] asteroid refers to just models in the asteroidarch,
but i found reference to the same asteroid in solararch and it has stats. i verified that is wasnt referring to them by changing
the 3db and mat to a lava asteroid and sure enough it was unchanged. so i set the one in solararch with base type setting and
with a loadout and set it up by newark just to try it out. it responds simlar to a wreck but unlike a wreck it has to be reduced
to 0 before it drops its loot, I’ve tried in vain to to substitute this for the ones that the [cube] refers to but all that happens
is the asteroids fail to appear in the field at all. the only other thing i could do is set them all by hand in the fields
another thing that irritates me is that the wreck style roids will all show on the scanner, not sure if this would cause lag with100 or more of them or not.

anyone have any suggestions?

in asteroids Li03_silverton_rock_asteroid_field

[Cube]
asteroid = mineable2_asteroid60, 0.600000, 0.200000, -0.200000, 35, 119, 20
asteroid = mineable2_asteroid30, 0.200000, 0.800000, 0.300000, 45, 20, 0
asteroid = mineable2_asteroid30, -0.300000, -0.300000, 0.800000, 85, 0, 185
asteroid = mineable2_asteroid60, -0.700000, 0.400000, -0.400000, 0, 30, 170

[LootableZone]
asteroid_loot_container = lootcrate_ast_loot_silver  <–----
asteroid_loot_commodity = commodity_silver  <-------
dynamic_loot_container = lootcrate_ast_loot_silver
dynamic_loot_commodity = commodity_silver
asteroid_loot_count = 0,0  <------
dynamic_loot_count = 1, 1
asteroid_loot_difficulty = 95  <-----
dynamic_loot_difficulty = 15

in asteroiarch

[Asteroid]
nickname = mineable2_asteroid30
DA_archetype = solar\asteroids\models\ast_mineable02_30.3db
material_library = solar\ast_mineable.mat

[Asteroid]
nickname = mineable2_asteroid60
DA_archetype = solar\asteroids\models\ast_mineable02_60.3db
material_library = solar\ast_mineable.mat

in SolarArch

[Solar]
nickname = ast_solar_mineable2_60
type = station  ;NON_TARGETABLE
DA_archetype = solar\asteroids\models\ast_mineable02_60.3db
material_library = solar\ast_mineable.mat
LODranges = 0, 2000
destructible = true
solar_radius = 10
shape_name = NNM_SM_ROCK_ASTEROID
hit_pts = 30.000000

in solar\Loadouts

[loadout]
nickname = ast_solar_mineable2_60
cargo = commodity_silver, 50