Mine Scrap/Self Destruct Bug

Slaughtermeyer · #1 August 19th, 2001, 11:01 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Spoo:
Put one of your ships in each minefield and trade them to an enemy

That won't necessarily work either, if a minesweeper starts its turn in an enemy minefield, it won't do any sweeping, even if you give it the minesweeping order. If it leaves and reenters, it probably will be destroyed unless it can sweep all of the mines at once.

Quikngruvn · #2 August 21st, 2001, 05:56 AM

Can mines be recovered by a minelayer, to be relaunched elsewhere?

Quikngruvn

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Phoenix-D · #3 August 21st, 2001, 06:43 AM

No.

Phoenix-D

Quikngruvn · #4 August 21st, 2001, 07:30 AM

Bummer. So much for that strategy....

Quikngruvn

capnq · #5 August 22nd, 2001, 01:20 AM

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if a minesweeper starts its turn in an enemy minefield, it won't do any sweeping, even if you give it the minesweeping order.

Are you sure about that Last part? Sweeping the sector you're already in is supposedly what the minesweeping order is for.

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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Slaughtermeyer · #6 August 21st, 2001, 02:50 PM

I've tested it. When you hit the minesweeping button, it does not even register as an order when you go check what orders have been issued.

Stone Mill · #7 August 21st, 2001, 10:50 PM

Oh, I've had fun with this bug.

And I raised it on the Boards a few months ago...

Finding this out the hard way just about ruined a 3 month long PBEM game for me.

Just wait until you try and launch fighters. Nice to know your carriers won't work now either.

This darn thing needs to be fixed.