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Even if the colony ship is shedding the partial damage between mine explosions, it still should be taking damage sometimes to the other components smaller than the colony module.
The problem is that larger/tougher internals get hit more often than the smaller/weaker ones. The colony module is 20x the size and strength of the engine components, so you'd need hundreds of mines to get a lucky hit on something other than the colony module.
The opposite is true of armor, though. There the smallest/weakest components are hit first,
most of the time.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 18 June 2001).]