Mines & treties.... A few questions

[JurijD]

one questin still hsn´t been answered... what happenes when one ship enters a sector that already has ships in it and is also mined by another empire... does only the entering ship get damaged or the others too...

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by JurijD:
one questin still hsn´t been answered... what happenes when one ship enters a sector that already has ships in it and is also mined by another empire... does only the entering ship get damaged or the others too...

I just tested it now, pretty suprised by the result. I put a space station and 13 small mines in orbit. I gifted the space station to another player. Had him declare war ane enter the sector. Boom. Destroyed the ship, not the base, and there were mines left over.

So in that case at least, a stationary ship doesn't get hit by mines.

[Fyron]

Why is that surprising? It makes sense to me. Why would a ship that is not moving be destroyed by mines?

[Taera]

it still has hostile ID. i doubt mines are just as primitive unmovable objects as today's mines are. besides, even today not all are. a ship has other readings that heat from engines, you know.

[Arkcon]

Like Taera said. Also tried it again with mobile ships. Same result.

I noticed something else in this case. I captured a minesweeper. I figured there were mines in the sector so I used to minesweep button. Went a sector away and came back. Then it swept mines, and only the minesweeper took damage.

AFAICT, the sweep mines button doesn't work if the ship doesn't move.

[Taera]

you still can sweep without moving, but it should trigger the whole minefield. supposedly works only when you have one ship at the sector (or all are minesweepers), and it might actually be a new bug we all have never thought about (read the 100+ ways to tell your addicted to se?)