auto mine laying

[Will]

The "Repeat Orders" button is a red arrow that curves around to itself. It's hotkey is 'K', and it is the tenth button on the bottom of the orders toolbar (or the button on the bottom right of the second orders subsection, if your resolution is only 800X600 pixels).

You could use this to keep laying mines in a sector until there are 100 or more in the sector, but not to some set number, such as 25. Either keep some notes saying when to cancel repeat orders, or when the orders queue will be empty.

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[ 16 February 2002: Message edited by: Will ]

[geoschmo]

If you want to lay x numebr of mines, but not the limit of 100, you could give it consecutive load and lay mines orders. if your mine layer can lay 15 mines per turn, and you want to lay 60, give it four such combinations of orders.

Geo

[capnq]

Another way to lay all the mines that the ship is carrying is Launch Units Remotely, Move to a different sector about half the ship's movement away, Repeat Orders. (This is assuming that the ship can carry more mines than it can launch in one turn.)