Thanks for all the quick responses - I was pretty sure I was making this way more complicated than necessary.

I’ll try the mine control plug-in - sounds exactly like what I’m looking for.

This may be more of a server admin question than a modding
question, so feel free to point me to a different place.

I’m running a Freelancer server (with Discovery mod) on a
dedicated machine, and would like to tweak the settings for
asteroid fields to change the loot that is dropped by mined
asteroids.

When I make changes to the asteroid_field.ini files in
DATA/SOLAR/ASTEROIDS and restart the server, the changes
are not visible to clients logging into the server. I suspect I’m just
changing the “client” on the server machine.

Is there a step I’m missing to cause the server to push the new
asteroid data down to the client? I know that different servers
have this feature without requiring clients to download a mod. For
example, Discovery PTC (among others) tweaks the asteroid field
in PA to help out new players.

Any help is appreciated.