Fighters vs Mines Question

[tbontob]

Newbie question about fighters.

1) Are fighters destroyed when they encounter mines?

2) Can fighters cause damage to a planet?

There is nothing in the newbie fax on this and I would think the answer to both is yes, but confirmation would be appreciated.

I am in the middle of doing a turn in a complex PBW game and am unable to test the above.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Newbie question about fighters.

1) Are fighters destroyed when they encounter mines?

There is a line in the Settings textfile that controls this. In the unmodded game it's set to "true", which means yes they are.

2) Can fighters cause damage to a planet?

By weapons or ramming?

The ability of weapons to hit a planet is set in the Components text file. As long as that weapon has "planet" in its weapon target line, it will hit a planet. I think unmodded fighter weapons can hit planets, but I don't recall exactly.

Fighters can ram planets.

[tbontob]

Thanx General

[trooper]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Newbie question about fighters.
2) Can fighters cause damage to a planet?
PBW game and am unable to test the above.

Of course they can... missile pods can make lots of damages to planet facilites. Beam weapons are less deadly, but they Last during the whole combat...

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Newbie question about fighters.

1) Are fighters destroyed when they encounter mines?

Yes, they are. I tried using them to sweep mines in a PBW game, but some people see it as an exploit to use fighters, drones, or colony ships to soak up damage from a known minefield. Malfador may have changed some things lately to prevent this.

[wanker]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
I tried using them to sweep mines in a PBW game, but some people see it as an exploit to use fighters, drones, or colony ships to soak up damage from a known minefield. Malfador may have changed some things lately to prevent this.[/QB]

Out of curiosity, what is explotive about using fighters, drone or colony ships as mine sweepers? I could understand that fighters may not be able to set them off due to size (i.e. too small of mines to target) but drones and colony ships?