Minesweeper Question

[Atrocities]

You can only have 100 mines per sector. So the mine sweeper will clear those 100 mines. If you then move to a new sector, the mine sweeper will clear those mines as well. The mine sweeper works regardless until it has hit its maximum ability.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

So if you have 101 mines in the secter and can only sweep 100, the last mine damages a ship. Not sure if it damages shields or armor, though.

[Atrocities]

How would you have 101 mines in a system if the limit is 100 mines per system? *Non modded games of course*

[Fyron]

Each empire can launch 100 mines in a sector.

Mines ignore shielding entirely. They damage armor first like everything else (unless you mod in armor skipping mines, of course).

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Imperator Fyron said:
Each empire can launch 100 mines in a sector.

Mines ignore shielding entirely. They damage armor first like everything else (unless you mod in armor skipping mines, of course).

...What happens if you mod in shield damage from mines?

[Phoenix-D]

You can't. That happens to be hard-coded. I guess ships are assumed to not have their shields up when not expecting combat?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It would make sense - Do any non-combat effects affect shields?

[Xaren Hypr]

Just out of curiousity, what damage abilities are effective when modded onto mines or mine components? For example, if you create a warhead that only damages engines, will you have mines that will only knock out an opposing fleet's engines and not do any other damage?

[Suicide Junkie]

Yep.

And as of 1.91, the mines will also stop detonating once there are no more engines to destroy, even if there are surviving ships and mines still.

[Parasite]

I wonder if you could mod mines to effect everyone, even yourself. After all, loose mines are no ones friend. Combined with no minesweepers could be an interesting setup. Well, maybe...