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Just did calculations, you don't lose out on all that much if you send your harvester for more than the recommended travel distance.
So now I'll just send them straight for home till I do more...

I use to do that too. But I find waiting for planets to produce more ore is just downtime period when I could use the Small harvester object count as
a remote Harvester and collect from another...

Day 1
* Research Remote Harvesting followed by Advanced Shipyard
* Build a Shipyard, Outpost Ship, 1 - 4 Small Harvesters depending on how much micro managing you want to do then use the remaining...