I don't think that's the case, here. It appears to be a "KDF" thing.

My fed completed the mission and actually mined twice in one circle. The mission still completed just fine.

The 4/5 bug on my KDF toon appeared when I mined the 4th cirlcle, the 5th one disappeared also.

Well my thoughts are often wrong but I cant stop having them for some reason lol. In the words of Homer Simpson "Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!"

How much Dilithium can you get from one of these missions?

all depends really. From what i understand mining yeilds points and points turn into dilithium think i got 835 dilithium but im not quick on the arrow keys

I also had the 4/5 issue on my KDF Lethean. Funny how my FED Andorian and FED Trill completed it just fine...

LucianAlliance i have just one thing to say to you "ill be in my bunk"

Thanks for the guide.

Perhaps you could include the "Basics of Laser Drilling"?
ie How to manipulate the Laser targeting triangle.

I found it to be pretty easy with just the arrow keys on your keyboard. It's very responsive that way and (as with the wave scanner mini-game) once you've practiced a few times it's pretty much 100%.

About the 4/5, it did happened to me. I suspected it had something to do with my inventory that was without empty slots. So I recycled one item and played again. Them it sucessfully completed. I hope this may help those who are facing the same problem.

Edit: Editing just to don't make a new post. The diffrence between suits is really only cosmetic? If that is the case, it seens not worth to pay 350k of dilithium on a item that doesn't give nothing in return (other than it is a bit more shiny) . so, unless it gaves you some advantage, I would suggest cryptic to lower the price of it, because otherwise, almost no one will be going to buy them (okay, there is always those who have no lobes for business and will pay that amount. But it will be VERY feel people).

Thank you very much! I've been thinking about changing it to something else, though. Not sure what...