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raynor February 28th, 2001 06:12 AM

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A mine sweeper ship will sweep the maximum number of mines it is capable of sweeping before any remaining mines begin damaging ships in the fleet.

Codo February 28th, 2001 06:16 AM

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I don't think you've run into over 100 mines before, because I think there is a limit on mines in a sector. I went to a purely defensive game just to try some things out the other night, and went mine-crazy. Just kept spitting out mines as fast as I could. Once I had 100+ mines over a particular planet, placing any more resulted in an error that said that there could only be 100 mines. However... If I place 99 mines in orbit, and then turned around and put more than 1 in...the mines would go into orbit, BUT subsequent attempts and putting up more mines failed with the Only 100 mines error (even thought I might now have 130 or so mines in orbit already! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif)

Codo

mottlee February 28th, 2001 06:18 AM

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Is SO CONFUSING http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

[This message has been edited by mottlee (edited 28 February 2001).]

raynor February 28th, 2001 06:51 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mottlee:
Is SO CONFUSING http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

[This message has been edited by mottlee (edited 28 February 2001).]
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To the best of my knowledge, you *WILL* receive a message telling you how many mines you sweeped before your ship was destroyed.

pathfinder February 28th, 2001 07:02 AM

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codo--you prolly right. I usually don't bother counting such minutia...all my ships go boom..... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

DirectorTsaarx February 28th, 2001 04:49 PM

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by capnq:
15 sweepers is good...

until you find a minefield with 16+ mines.

After you lose one minesweeper ship, try sending in two together; if you lose both, try three, etc.
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I think Mine Sweeper III's sweep 7 mines each... so 15 sweepers would clear 105 mines... Haven't checked MS V's yet (haven't researched that far).

Sinapus February 28th, 2001 06:42 PM

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Minesweepers sweep mines according to their level, unless I missed something in the latest patch. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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DirectorTsaarx February 28th, 2001 09:04 PM

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Sinapus, you're right. I was thinking 7 because I have 7 sweepers on my minesweeping ships. Which means 15 MS III's would take out 45 mines... still a pretty good number, and much better than just 15...

mottlee March 1st, 2001 12:05 AM

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Hmmm I think you do not under stand (or I don't) the mark V sweeper sweeps 5 mines and I have 15 on a ship, So it should take out 75 mines and with 2 ships at 75 thats 150 yet I still lose them
Mott

Sinapus March 1st, 2001 12:33 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mottlee:
Hmmm I think you do not under stand (or I don't) the mark V sweeper sweeps 5 mines and I have 15 on a ship, So it should take out 75 mines and with 2 ships at 75 thats 150 yet I still lose them
Mott
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So either it's a bug, or you're dealing with an AI that lays mines like I do. (And adjusted that limit in settings.txt to have more than 100 mines per sector.)

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