Q and A

Suicide Junkie · #1 February 28th, 2001, 05:02 AM

I haven't used mines yet.

Are you saying that if the minesweeper ship dies, then it sweeps ZERO mines???

mottlee · #2 February 28th, 2001, 05:13 AM

Yup I get dead sweeper and no measage saying that any mine were sweep as in SE3

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raynor · #3 February 28th, 2001, 06:12 AM

A mine sweeper ship will sweep the maximum number of mines it is capable of sweeping before any remaining mines begin damaging ships in the fleet.

Codo · #4 February 28th, 2001, 06:16 AM

I don't think you've run into over 100 mines before, because I think there is a limit on mines in a sector. I went to a purely defensive game just to try some things out the other night, and went mine-crazy. Just kept spitting out mines as fast as I could. Once I had 100+ mines over a particular planet, placing any more resulted in an error that said that there could only be 100 mines. However... If I place 99 mines in orbit, and then turned around and put more than 1 in...the mines would go into orbit, BUT subsequent attempts and putting up more mines failed with the Only 100 mines error (even thought I might now have 130 or so mines in orbit already!

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Codo

mottlee · #5 February 28th, 2001, 06:18 AM

Is SO CONFUSING

LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

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raynor · #6 February 28th, 2001, 06:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mottlee:
Is SO CONFUSING LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

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To the best of my knowledge, you *WILL* receive a message telling you how many mines you sweeped before your ship was destroyed.

pathfinder · #7 February 28th, 2001, 07:02 AM

codo--you prolly right. I usually don't bother counting such minutia...all my ships go boom.....