Should large mines be counted as three mines for sweepers?

[TaeraRepublic]

Ohwell, posted twice...

Anyway,
About the racestyle, i spent hours working on politic and anger files...

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[This message has been edited by TaeraRepublic (edited 10 April 2001).]

[Q]

I agree that at the moment it is not very attractive to build larger mines (I never do!). The idea of counting the larger mines as three units for the minesweeping would be one possibility. Or if you would restrict the ability to sweep larger mines to sweeping components of higher tech levels? Or a combination of both: Large mines cannot be sweept by sweeping components level I and II, level III will sweep one large mine, level IV two and level V three. For small mines everything remains as it is and for medium mines it is in between.

[Suicide Junkie]

I think that having larger mines have more hitpoints against minesweepers is a good idea.

Say 10, 15, 20 HP for the mines,
and a minesweeper does 10 damage per hit.
(MS V gets five shots.)
Then, large mines are harder to kill, but not too much more.

[Nitram Draw]

The way I thought mine worked was each mine attacked a ship and if , after taking the armor into effect, the ship was destroyed then the next mine attacked the next ship. If the first mine did not kill the ship, all damage was considered repaired and the next mine attacked the ship and so on. Is this correct?
If it is then there is a good reason to build large mines, as they can do more damage. If not then large mines don't appear to be very useful. I have only used small mines so I don't know how it works exactly.

[rdouglass]

Also, take into account that Organic Armor III can basically ignore all mines except Large Mine w/ 2 Warhead III's. It has been stated in other threads, so check 'em out. Organic tech is pretty powerful as it is - if you only use small mines (per discussion below) you will NOT be effective against Organic tech.

Also IMO, a mine is a mine is a mine.... Sweeper I, sweep 1 mine, Sweeper II sweep 2 mines, etc..

[AJC]

I dont think the large mines should be considered three mines.

the game allows for 5000 units.

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[Aussie Gamer]

I say increase the limit of units in space and leave the mines alone.

If you shoot a explosive device, no matter it's size, you basically stuff it. It would be disabled or destroyed by the gun shoot.

So one mine per sweeper gun is realistic.

If you want to protect the large mines then either mix in unarmed small mines, cheapness!, or design a dummy mine which is very cheap and weighs only 1kt. This would add more realism than changing the sweep/ mine ratio.
Why don't you also have a high level mine head which skips armour!!!! So much for high level organic armour <insert evil laugh!>

[This message has been edited by Aussie Gamer (edited 10 April 2001).]