No Minefield Being Cleared Message

[Aristoi]

I'm playing with v1.35, and I've noticed that I'm not getting Messages when my minefields are being cleared by enemy sweepers. The sweeper will just pass through and unless I happen to look manually, I'd never ne the wiser that my field is gone.

The only Messages I have gotten are when the field is swept but also triggered. Yet if it is totally cleared there is nothing.

Has anyone else seen this?

[Lisif Deoral]

I noticed it too, but I think that's how it was supposed to work. This allows cloaked ships (in particular) to cross a minefield without a warning being generated.

I have. I assumed it was a game feature, not a bug. You really have to watch for those enemy presence icons on the map...

[Aristoi]

It seems logical that if a race can tell when its field is activated, it should be able to tell if it's been swept.

[Lemmy]

i disagree with that
if a mine field detonates all sort of disturbances are generated by the explosion, this way a race knows when a minefield is detonated.
but when you sweep a minefield you can do
this without any "noise".

unless the mines have some sort of transmitter which tells you if they're still there or not.

btw. when you launch a mine in an uninhabited system, can you see what's going on in there?, like when you have a satellite. there.

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[WarChild]

lemmym:
mines do not give you a visual on activities in a sector.

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