Should large mines be counted as three mines for sweepers?

[AJC]

[quote]Originally posted by Aussie Gamer:
[b]I say increase the limit of units in space and leave the mines alone.


during a recent game I had 1400+ units in space. I set the limit to 5000 units. You can make this the default in the settings.txt file as well as bump it up during set up.

[Marty Ward]

Daynarr,
You are correct. There sure are a lot of topics on mines when you search it.
What about modifying the size and damage of warheads?
Keep the current one. Create a new warhead that does 150 points of damage and won't fit in a small mine, one that does 200 that will only fit in a large mine, a 50 point one that is about 1/2 the size of the 100 point warhead.
That way no component by itself would defeat every mine and you could fit about the same number of damage points on the mines as you can now and allow about the same number of attacks per mine size.
Does this make sense?

[Suicide Junkie]

What we need are warheads that are more efficient, but only fit on large mines.

There has to be an advantage worth spending money for the larger mine, and a ton of research to do two extra levels in mine tech.

[TaeraRepublic]

IMO, it would be unfair to strenghten(sp?) up the mines, as not everyone uses mines widely. Those who do not like mines, or simply dont use them well, will be in disadvantage.

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[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
There has to be an advantage worth spending money for the larger mine, and a ton of research to do two extra levels in mine tech.

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Well, you do get better mine sweeping components for those extra levels in mine tech... doesn't that justify the tech cost?

[Lemmy]

well, not completely, you ( me really ) still don't use the larger mines.
maybe they can be put in different tech trees

[Taqwus]

Shrinking the warhead somewhat, and requiring mines to use small sensors might help. You'd only need one set of sensors for a large mine, so you could get more bang for the kt. One could also considerably lower the per-sector mine limits...

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