please help me balancing mines and making them more useful

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
I also like the idea of having a divergent cost/effect ratio.
Cheap mines would be easy to build in bulk, but do relatively little damage each.
Expensive mines would take much longer to build and do much more damage.

You can do that now by not filling your mines with warheads all the way

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That's not enough though.
Your expensive mines end up costing almost the same per damage point, and your cheap mines aren't cheap enough that you can pile them multiple sectors deep.