[Karibu]

Originally posted by Slick:
Just to be clear and conclusively rule out the mine theory:

Even if you had a partnership with other empires, you don't see thier mines. You don't get hit by them either, so you don't know where they are unless you are told. Since you had a partnership with 2 other empires, they could potentially have placed 200 mines in the sector of disappearance. And (unlikely, but) if those 2 allies had a trade or better treaty with another empire, a this 3rd empire could also have had 100 mines in the same sector.

When you say that the fleet could sweep "any amount" of mines, does this mean >200?

The reason I bring this up is I got bLasted once where I had a large fleet with enough mine sweepers to take out 100 mines and it got decimated due to 2 empires heavily mining the same sector. I swept 100 mines and got hit by the rest. This was not obvious to me and I first thought it was a bug.

Like I said, just to conclusively rule out mines, just how many mines could the fleet sweep?

Slick.

Yes. I am talking about Last man Standing.

I am aware of the tactic with laying two minefields in the same spot. However, there was none. I would have known if my allies would have made minefields to the current location. As far as I know, they haven't had any ships in that system excluding scouts during the game. Also that specific location would have been not a place any player would have made large minefields like that. It was beside warp point, but where ships would not normally move when going through warp point into other planets.

Also, intel is disallowed in our game. There is two possible readon I could think. Enemy's resource shortage -> ships scrapping and random catastrophic event. I haven't reached that other player yet... I will tell you when I get his answer.

However, I must admit that I am not unhappy of how things has happened. That fleet was one turn away from my Last homeworld =)