More newbie questions

[LeTharg]

1. I asked once about sweep mines and was told that it was useful for tactical combat to handle mines released during combat. Since I only play PBEM, I can't verify.

2. Trading comm channels is very useful in PBEM games. One way is to agree on the trade and then each side gift the other. Since you can see the other players on the load game screen, it would make sense to me to have a list of all comm channels for trading purposes. I would also like a game option to have all comm channels available to everyone (sort of like seeing all scores).

[Dragonlord]

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It's used to sweep mines when your minesweeper is already in the minefield.[/b]

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In my experience, if my sweeper enters a large minefield, he will be killed by the mines. Basically he is overwhelmed and can't sweep them all at once. And dead sweepers cannot do a manual re-sweep...
Still puzzled.

[JenMax]

You can get se4 to play ANY music CD you put into the d drive, at least under an older patch Version.

[capnq]

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You can get se4 to play ANY music CD you put into the d drive, at least under an older patch Version.

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I sometimes play with a classical CD in. The only "problem" is that the game will switch music tracks for some situations, so you often won't hear complete tracks.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Lisif Deoral]

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
In my experience, if my sweeper enters a large minefield, he will be killed by the mines. Basically he is overwhelmed and can't sweep them all at once. And dead sweepers cannot do a manual re-sweep...
Still puzzled.

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I think there are some rare cases in which your mine sweeper can start the turn in an enemy minefield. For example, if the enemy mined the orbit of one of your planets and you build a mine sweeper at its planetary space yard.
I never saw anything like that in my games, anyway, so I can't say if it works...

[Suicide Junkie]

Example: You attack an enemy fleet with your fleet.
One enemy ship turns out to be a minelayer, and spews mines into space as it runs away. You and the other fleet square off and fight it out.
You win, and combat ends. Now, you are in the same square as an undetonated minefield.
Using the Sweep command allows you to sweep the mines without moving one square away, then coming back to sweep the mines.

[Dragonlord]

Thanks Sj, that helps !