Mineral Ore Deposits from Settlers League Mechanic

Would love for incoming monster dmg while activating the verisium mineral deposit to either be eliminated or heavily reduced. Every time I want to click the deposit and move the bar to any sort of progress with the verisium meter monsters in my maps are offscreening and are so annoying. The way you have the system setup, you must clear the entire surrounding area of the verisium deposit to be at all out of range of other monsters. The problem is that while you are clicking and holding down the meter, you are completely defensless; rage drops off, charges drop off, etc. WHY IS IT DESIGNED THIS WAY? Just holding down that verisium meter and getting fully offscreened because my defensive layers are actually gone due to clicking that stupid ore deposit is getting very very old.

My suggestion would be to allow players to click the meter but not hard set it to click and holding. I think dragging a meter to the level at which you want to set it would be much better. My main complaint is that you have to click and hold, but the moment you release the click it cancels the deposit.