Mining an enemy planet

[Comar]

I suspect that a new ship entering the mine field would have set it off.

[Tomgs]

I Have mined enemy planets. The only way they go off if if another ship not a treaty partner with you goes into that sector. If it is a ship built in that sector they will not go off unless the ship leaves the sector and comes back, even if you initiate a combat with the ship in that sector. By the way it is a truely evil thing to offer a non aggression pact with someone then mine all their worlds and then break the treaty. But it works well to decimate large fleets.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 01 November 2000).]

[Comar]

Now that is evil. However, I suspect if you try it in a multi player game you will draw a reaction that will not be favorable for you. :}

[Repo Man]

Seems to me that mining an friendly AI should cause the AI to dislike you AND cause it to begin a minesweeping subroutine

[Tomgs]

You cannot detect that the mines are there until the treaty is broken or another race with no treaty goes into that sector and somehow tells you about it, that could happen with human players but not the computer players. Of course you may wonder why such and such a races ships always dissapear when they try to go through that warp point while you go through with no problems. As long as the treaty is on the mines are invisible I think I may be wrong but I have had other races mine places and I never saw the mines untill they were triggered.

[Comar]

True, but unless you have serious cloaking tech, the ship that lays them is not. I know I would be very curious about a minelaying ship that just happens to come visiting. Wouldn't you?

[Taqwus]

Sounds like a good use for the scanner tech. Without it, you can't look at their ship designs, IIRC, without entering tactical combat.

OTOH, in a multi-player game, you should probably be paranoid about ANY "allied" ships hanging around in your space -- be they minelayers, planetary bombers, or simply ship-killers...

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