Fighters vs Mines Question

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by wanker:
Out of curiosity, what is explotive about using fighters, drone or colony ships as mine sweepers? I could understand that fighters may not be able to set them off due to size (i.e. too small of mines to target) but drones and colony ships?

The drone warhead component and the colonization component have lots of hit points. An early Version of SE4 had the mine explosive warhead do so little damage, with no partial damage stored ... therefore, one drone, or one colony ship, resulted complete sweeping of a 200 unit minefield.

That exploit has been removed.

There's still an unspoken stigma against using non-minesweepers against minefields. I don't really understand it myself.