Make mining its own department.

[Dauntasa]

With the new system, mining actually interacts with the station once in a blue moon.

it interacts exactly as often as it used to but is now extremely boring to actually do. Now instead of getting their own cool station they get a shitty space platform. They're still in space, away from everyone else, and never ever help out the rest of the station. But instead of having a whole Z-level to play around in, they have a shitty space platform. Also they're all cramped together in one asteroid and it sucks.

my ideal mining department is just slapping like 3-4 magnets onto the mining outpost station and having them start there again