No Minefield Being Cleared Message

[Devnullicus]

IMO, this is a bug, not a feature. You should be able to keep track of your minefields quite easily. If this is a purposeful feature of the game, perhaps a good thing would be to create a component (or attribute that can be built on a component) that will allow a mine to send a message when it is swept. Perhaps this component would need more research or would take up space on the mine that would otherwise go to explosives, but there absolutely should be a way, IMHO, for you to know when your mines have been swept or destroyed.

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[rdouglass]

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Originally posted by Devnullicus:
...but there absolutely should be a way, IMHO, for you to know when your mines have been swept or destroyed.

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Stick a cloaked sat with sensors in the same system as your mines. With that, you see the whole system - ships, planets, (your) mines - all of it. (Except their cloaked stuff) That's the only way I know of to always be able to see. It is quite effective, however is difficult to achieve in early games since cloaking and sensors are both relatively expensive research items when compared with weapons.

EDIT: However, this won't force the event (detonation, minefield sweep, etc.) to show in the log (I don't think).

[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 01 June 2001).]