Should large mines be counted as three mines for sweepers?

[raynor]

If a mine sweeper ship with five Mine Sweeper I components encounters a mine field with five small mines, it will sweep the mine field and take no damage. If it encounters a field with five large mines, what happens? Doesn't it also sweep those five mines and not take damage?

What would y'all think about asking Malfador to count a large mine as THREE mines where mine sweeper components are concerned?

In terms of realism, I would agree that it makes much more sense for all mines to be considered equal. But given the limit of 1000 units in space and the AI's tendency to build large mines, I wonder if it might not be a good idea to change how things work. Any thoughts?

[TaeraRepublic]

Well, if realy, i do not think that its such a good idea.

Mine is a mine, and the size only matters in the damage which it can do, its cost and build time.

The mine sweeper makes mines to self-explode. Whats the size matters?

[dogscoff]

I agree with Taera on this - a mine is a mine. (unless it's yours=-)

Let me get this right though, if I have a minefield of 50 mines (for example) my enemy would need 10 ships with 5 Minesweepers each to clear it without damage?

Wow. That's a lot of ships. Would it be cheaper maybe to build a "mine sacrifice" ship - really big with loads of shilds to go in first and soak up the damage?

BTW T_R - I love your shipset. I playd against it a fw times and it was a great enmy. Really stubborn, I couldn't get it to surrender no matter what.

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[Hydraa]

Shields are not active against mines. However armor is so your mine sacrifice ship would need to be armor heavy and not shield heavy.

[Lemmy]

I think a mine sweeper should be able to clear a certain tonnage of mines.
Because right now it's better to use small mines instead of larger ones, why?
Because a mine sweeper can only sweep, for example, 10 mines and IIRC large mines are three times bigger than small mines.
Then if you could choose between 30 small mines or 10 large ones, which would you choose?
right, 30 small ones

I would probably only use larger mines if you could put large mount warheads on them, twice or three times as much damage but only 1.5 times bigger and more expensive

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 10 April 2001).]

[TaeraRepublic]

Well, consider that - when encountering mine field, you enter a fight with them, and mine sweeper will act like PDC. You appear at close range, and mines approach you every turn..

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