Mine Sweeper Destroyed message

[Aristoi]

When a minesweeper goes encounteres a minefield that it cannot completely sweep and is destroyed, should it not list how many mines it swept before destruction?

I lost two minesweepers which appear to have swept no mines at all before being destroyed by said minefield. This doesn't make much sense to me.

Any ideas?

[Hotfoot]

Minesweepers sweep as many mines as they can before they die, IIRC. That means that however many mines they were designed to sweep they swept, but they were overwhelmed by the remaining mines in that sector. So if you had five level 1 minesweeper components on two ships, they would have swept a total of ten mines before they died, no more, no less.

-Hotfoot
"that's all folks."

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[Deathstalker]

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I lost two minesweepers which appear to have swept no mines at all before being destroyed by said minefield. This doesn't make much sense to me."

Were they cloaked at the time??? Cloaked sweepers do not sweep any mines at all, and the cloak offers no protection against mines.

[Aristoi]

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Originally posted by Deathstalker:
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Were they cloaked at the time??? Cloaked sweepers do not sweep any mines at all, and the cloak offers no protection against mines.

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That was exactly what it was! Thanks for the answer!