Effect of defensive bonuses on mines?

capnq · #1 November 6th, 2002, 01:44 AM

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Assume it takes 1 mine to kill a ship. It makes no difference if I have one mine or the max of 100 in the sector.

The ship seems to get killed, period. It doesn't have a chance of making it through the sector.

Each mine inflicts as much damage as the total of the warheads on it. If the ship can withstand more damage (excluding shield points) than that, it will take more than one mine to kill it.

tbontob · #2 November 6th, 2002, 03:47 AM

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Originally posted by capnq:

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Assume it takes 1 mine to kill a ship. It makes no difference if I have one mine or the max of 100 in the sector.

The ship seems to get killed, period. It doesn't have a chance of making it through the sector.

Each mine inflicts as much damage as the total of the warheads on it. If the ship can withstand more damage (excluding shield points) than that, it will take more than one mine to kill it.

I don't think I phrased my question clearly.

Take WWII. A marine ship had a greater chance of surviving its passage through mine-laden waters if there was only one mine and not a hundred. The probability was good that the ship and the sole mine would not come into contact to detonate the mine. With one hundred or more mines, the risk of coming into contact with a mine increases a hundred fold.

In SE4 the sole mine always seems to detonate (in my limited experience).

Edit: My original question was

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My impression is that mines always work. Is this true?

Put another way, is there a 100% certainty that the sole mine and the ship will come into contact to detonate the mine?

[ November 06, 2002, 01:54: Message edited by: tbontob ]

AGoetz · #3 November 6th, 2002, 04:01 AM

From my understanding - yes, if you enter a minefield without enough sweeps you will get hit.

Suicide Junkie · #4 November 6th, 2002, 05:01 AM

Reworking the mine system is one of the big requested features. Vote for it in the POLL->things we'd really like in Next Patch (Platinum II) thread, and then send an email to:
SE4@malfador.com and ask Aaron personally (and politely of course)

tbontob · #5 November 6th, 2002, 08:23 AM

Thanx guys

Voted in the poll. Great choices and I only could vote for 3!

Matryx · #6 November 6th, 2002, 11:23 PM

In the meantime you could just consider mines to be intelligently seeking completely stealthed exploding devices.

tbontob · #7 November 7th, 2002, 02:26 AM

They are intelligent par excellence!

Now if I could somehow transfer that intelligence to my DUC's so that they would never miss!