7) The mine sweeping button is misleading. It is used to sweep mines that may have been laid in your sector by enemy ships maybe during a combat while the minelayer was killed. You would rarely ever use it (I never have found a use for it since the Last patch that made mines laid in combat reload after battle) because it for some reason won't move ships into a known mine area with this command (this just seems wrong to me
). Ships will sweep mines if you just send them into that sector no special command is needed. However if there are more mines than your sweepers can sweep then your ships will be damaged or destroyed until all the mines are gone.
[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 28 January 2001).]