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May 9th, 2005, 01:50 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
I like this concept. It is currently implemented in Adamant Mod, and I think it works well. 
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May 9th, 2005, 01:52 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
Great minds think alike!
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May 9th, 2005, 02:25 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
P&N had some of the heaviest mines be detectable with gravitic sensors.
The biggest problem with mines, though, is the all-or-nothing-ness of it:
Either you bring enough sweepers to clear any field with no damage, or you forget/lack tech and your fleet gets vaporized.
Tossing minesweepers in the trash, and then reducing mine warhead damage and/or mines-per-sector limits is a better way to go.
Thusly, when you place mines, they:
- WILL do some damage
- WON'T wipe out decent sized fleets
- WILL slow those fleets down while they repair the damage.
You can even set things up such that players will have to place their mines not just stacked way up on the warppoints, but spread across a number of sectors around the warppoints and planets.
The armored fleet with repair ships will still get through, but they will be slowed down to a sector or two per turn while they plow through your mined territory.
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May 9th, 2005, 02:56 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
It is also fun to include mine warheads with a variety of special damage types. Only shield generators, only engines, etc.
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May 9th, 2005, 05:33 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
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It is also fun to include mine warheads with a variety of special damage types. Only shield generators, only engines, etc.
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IIRC the one thing I didn't like about special damage mines is that for instance, a stack of 100 engine damaging mine can be 'cleared' by a measley frigate. Frigate enters mine field, first mine detonates. Mine damages engines but ships till remains. Second mine detonates, ship still remains. Third mine detonates, etc. etc. upt o all 100 mines. Sure the engines on the frigate are gone but so is the minefield.
Now if it could be 'fixed' so that 1 ship detonates ONLY 1 (or even like a max of 5 mines) then these specialty mines could be a lot more useful. But also, like many things in the game, that is a 'hard code' issue and not 'fixable' by a mod.
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May 9th, 2005, 05:40 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
Just mix some normal warheads in with the mines.
Problem solved 
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May 9th, 2005, 05:42 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
I believe that should no longer be a problem in 1.91. It was fixed when the mine algorithms were changed to prevent a high structure component, such as a colony module, from causing all mine warheads that did not do enough damage in one hit to destroy it to not detonate. If no engines are left, no engine-damaging mines should detonate. I have no idea what happens if you mix warheads on the same mine unit, however.
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May 9th, 2005, 07:05 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
Suicide Junkie writes:
"You can even set things up such that players will have to place their mines not just stacked way up on the warppoints, but spread across a number of sectors around the warppoints and planets."
The whole problem with the concept of "mines" in a space game is
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. -- HHGTTG
Now with enough mental gymnastics you might be able to rationalize effective minefields around "choke points" like warp points or planets, but in interplanetary space, forget it.
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May 9th, 2005, 07:19 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
Exactly, though.
It would be silly to place those mines randomly, but if you lay them two or three sectors deep around your warppoints and/or planets, the enemy will hit some on their way through. A small percentage of the total to be sure, but that is a good thing.
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May 9th, 2005, 09:47 PM
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Re: Improving Mine tech concept
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Now with enough mental gymnastics you might be able to rationalize effective minefields around "choke points" like warp points or planets, but in interplanetary space, forget it.
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Assuming they're like terrestrial mines. Given that they have IFF, I doubt they are.
What a lot of SF does is make "mines" basiclly missile warheads attached to senstive passive sensors and a short-burn missile engine. They detect a ship, wait until its at its closest point, and then intercept it.
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