Cloaked ships are supposed to blow up without any chance to sweep a minefield, known or not. This is an intentional situation created for balance concerns. Since this tactic allows you to remain cloaked until you hit a minefield (even if it is only known ones, which can easily be added manually _everywhere_ in a combat zone), this allows you, a human player, to bypass the balance design of being highly vulnerable to minefields while cloaked. The fact that you are decloaked for at least a turn afterwords is irrelevant because it eliminates the need to remain uncloaked to be safe from mines. The behavior of the AI minsister is there strictly for use by the AI, which has no capability to determine probable risk of encountering mines while cloaked, as a human does. Therefore, this is certainly a highly suspect, gamey tactic. More likely it is an outright bug exploit.
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How could anyone consider using a Minister an exploit
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Using a minister is not an exploit. Abusing a minister to bypass legitimate rules of the game in an unintended manner is an exploit.