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A question on how to deal with mines waiting for you on the other end of a warp hole. I've had ships with mine clearing show up with the fleet at the other end but still everyone still suffers damage/destroyed despite the presence of these support ships to lead the way. I understand that you need a high tachyon scan rating to detect them but it doesn't help much going into new systems.
Mine sweeping is completely independent of your scan rating. When you enter a sector, if there are more mines than you have the capability to sweep, then your ships will take damage until all the mines have exploded or your entire fleet is destroyed;
if there are fewer mines, than you have the ability to sweep, then you will sweep the mine field without taking damage.
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I've also read about the inability to upgrade existing weapon platforms, troops and such and it sux. Just another vote to enable this hopefully in a patch or something.
Units can easily and quickly be produced in a single turn and do not require a spaceyard or other facility on the planet. In addition, you don't pay maintenance on them. If no maintenance equals no upgrade, I think I can live with it. I do not think they will change this...