Mine balance suggestion

[jimbob]

Mine fields should have an upper limit to how many mines can be in them... if you wallpaper space with mines then they'll be detected by incoming ships, and so won't really be a mine field in the common sense of the term (undetected, a surprise, etc)

That said, each sector is a pretty big chunk of realestate and so I think the max # of mines/sector could realistically reach 1,000 or even 10,000. I think MM was more concerned about people barricading themselves in during the early game, and so the later game (with huge minesweepers) suffered.

My solution would be to increase the (modable) limit to 1000 per sector, but then make the mines far more expensive to build to reduce the number manufactured in the early game. Or reduce the number launched per turn (per kT of launcher space) to make it harder to put many hundreds into space in a short period of time.

just my .02$

[ August 07, 2002, 19:14: Message edited by: jimbob ]