Should large mines be counted as three mines for sweepers?

[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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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[rdouglass]

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Originally posted by Daynarr:
Nitram Draw and rdouglass, you have it wrong. The damage done is not per mine but per warhead.

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Boy, I was involved in many of those previous threads and I STILL got it wrong. I HAD thought it was per mine and not per Warhead...

Well, I guess that Organic Armor III IS impervious to mines then - TOTALLY IMPERVIOUS. That seems to throw a balance off somewhere in the racial tech area IMO. Besides, I no longer use mines against AI - seems too unfair against the AI (OK - go ahead and flame now.. )

[Nitram Draw]

It is kind of unfair to use mines against. against a human though it is a different story.
I think that no one component should be 100% effective against mines. That is one of the beauties of this game, there are no guarantees.

[dmm]

Can anyone verify rdouglass's assertion that organic armor III is totally impervious to all mines?

If that's true, then I agree with him -- that's unbalancing.

[This message has been edited by dmm (edited 11 April 2001).]

[Hydraa]

I did a little testing. Armors that have a greater strength then mines warhead are not hurt by them. This includes Org arm II and scattering armors.

I do not think there are current armors that are greater than 200 resistance so warheads II and III will damage ships with 'heavy' armors

[Aussie Gamer]

Again a suggestion!
Make some more levels in mines and include an armour skipping component. Thus removing the Organic Armour III problem.
That way the other components can stay the same.