SEV discussion: Mines

[se5a]

its prety much agreed that the current seiv mines are not the greatest. how do you think they should work?

a copple of things I have seen thown around in other threads are:

1) mine decay rate - personaly I dont like this idea, I would rather see mines become obsolite than just dissapear.

2) mines should dammage ships in a fleet randomly instead of one afer annother - yup, I like this.

3) different types of mine component - this could be interesting, mines that only take out engines, shields, etc.

here is an idea I would like to propse:
mine fields that can be orderd to dettonate on all empires, only enemy empires, or enemy empires + empires X, and Z. this could be usefull for protecting those home systems especialy good for the more xenofobic races.