Q and A - Page 2

raynor · #11 February 28th, 2001, 06:12 AM

A mine sweeper ship will sweep the maximum number of mines it is capable of sweeping before any remaining mines begin damaging ships in the fleet.

Codo · #12 February 28th, 2001, 06:16 AM

I don't think you've run into over 100 mines before, because I think there is a limit on mines in a sector. I went to a purely defensive game just to try some things out the other night, and went mine-crazy. Just kept spitting out mines as fast as I could. Once I had 100+ mines over a particular planet, placing any more resulted in an error that said that there could only be 100 mines. However... If I place 99 mines in orbit, and then turned around and put more than 1 in...the mines would go into orbit, BUT subsequent attempts and putting up more mines failed with the Only 100 mines error (even thought I might now have 130 or so mines in orbit already!

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Codo

mottlee · #13 February 28th, 2001, 06:18 AM

Is SO CONFUSING

LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

[This message has been edited by mottlee (edited 28 February 2001).]

raynor · #14 February 28th, 2001, 06:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mottlee:
Is SO CONFUSING LOL I would think that I would at least get a mesage telling me it cleared some mines

[This message has been edited by mottlee (edited 28 February 2001).]

To the best of my knowledge, you *WILL* receive a message telling you how many mines you sweeped before your ship was destroyed.

pathfinder · #15 February 28th, 2001, 07:02 AM

codo--you prolly right. I usually don't bother counting such minutia...all my ships go boom.....

DirectorTsaarx · #16 February 28th, 2001, 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by capnq:
15 sweepers is good...

until you find a minefield with 16+ mines.

After you lose one minesweeper ship, try sending in two together; if you lose both, try three, etc.

I think Mine Sweeper III's sweep 7 mines each... so 15 sweepers would clear 105 mines... Haven't checked MS V's yet (haven't researched that far).

Sinapus · #17 February 28th, 2001, 06:42 PM

Minesweepers sweep mines according to their level, unless I missed something in the latest patch.

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DirectorTsaarx · #18 February 28th, 2001, 09:04 PM

Sinapus, you're right. I was thinking 7 because I have 7 sweepers on my minesweeping ships. Which means 15 MS III's would take out 45 mines... still a pretty good number, and much better than just 15...

mottlee · #19 March 1st, 2001, 12:05 AM

Hmmm I think you do not under stand (or I don't) the mark V sweeper sweeps 5 mines and I have 15 on a ship, So it should take out 75 mines and with 2 ships at 75 thats 150 yet I still lose them
Mott

Sinapus · #20 March 1st, 2001, 12:33 AM

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Originally posted by mottlee:
Hmmm I think you do not under stand (or I don't) the mark V sweeper sweeps 5 mines and I have 15 on a ship, So it should take out 75 mines and with 2 ships at 75 thats 150 yet I still lose them
Mott

So either it's a bug, or you're dealing with an AI that lays mines like I do. (And adjusted that limit in settings.txt to have more than 100 mines per sector.)

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