small minefield bug

[Daynarr]

Well, it usually happens something like this; you enter a minefield with a sweeper and sweeper clears all mines, however the minefield is not removed from map. (AFAIK this is ALWAYS the case when you clear a minefield, not sometimes). After that, you enter that sector with another ship (doesn't matter what ship or from what direction) and the minefield on the map disappears.

Apparently the game checks for minefield only when a ship is entering the sector, and because of that it doesn't remove it from the map (the minefield was present when the sweeper has entered the sector). You simply need another ship to enter that cleared sector.

Of course, this is a bug and it hurts AI since it believes that there is a minefield.

[This message has been edited by Daynarr (edited 01 April 2001).]

[Q]

What I have seen goes beyond that: the minefield would not be cleared after you entered it with an other ship!
Unfortunately this is obviously only the case in specific circumstances and until know I could not reproduce this bug. If I get it again I will post the savegame here and send it to MM. Because this happened in a game with my own modifications I can't rule out it was a consequence of my modding, although I did not modify mines/minesweeping at all.

[This message has been edited by Q (edited 02 April 2001).]

[Q]

Sorry it took so long but here is the savegame with the bug I mentioned:
If you open the gamefile you are in the Centaurus system and in charge of the Ukra-Tal empire. You see a marked minefield with several Ukra-Tal ships on it. Move one or all away from the minefield and back again on it. Nothing will happen, no explosion, no clearing of the minefield.
I have idea what may cause this but I am far from being certain. The Rage have a minefield there and they were in conflict with the Ukra-Tal some time ago but now they have a treaty. So may be that the marked minefield dates from the time of the conflict? Anyway I consider this a bug.