On 2012-01-14 02:42, Red Shirt wrote:
Proximity-Fused mines (with wide area of effect, naturally)

Nanocloud/Acid mines (damage-over-time effect)

Mini-Laser mines (rather than exploding, each contains a small chemical laser that can fire three times before burning out)

Missile-Mines (one-shot missile, faction type, that fires when target gets within moderate range)

Wild-Weasel mines (automatically attrack all missles that come within range, causing them to hit the mines instead of their real target)

Limpet Leech Mines (stick to hull and drain power until removed by getting in range of a friendly Shipyard)

Limpet Nanobot Inhibitor (sticks to hull and prevents armor repair on ships until removed - good versus UGTO)

Limpet Shield Drainer (sticks to hull and prevents shield regen until removed, good versus ICC)

Limpet Beacon mines (like scout beacons, they stick to the hull and raise signature until removed, good versus K'luth)

Tachyon Mines (bleeds out fuel from Tachyon drives and/or preventing jumping for a certain amount of time)


The possibilities are vast...

On 2011-10-05 17:16, MrSparkle wrote:

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On 2011-10-05 15:30, IllusMaze wrote: What if they decrease mines' damage but increase it's AOE, deployable numbers, and the amount of time they last? That way, it can't be used to mine a ship to death by flying right beside or on top of it. Please point out any flaws in my logic.

One of the reasons in increasing AOE is helping prevent dropping mines too close to an enemy. However, using minelayers in that way is a novel way of playing and I don't think much can be done to stop it. I would prefer encouraging their more traditional use of pre-deployment as minefields.

Maybe an activation timer might be possible as well? I somehow doubt it's possible, but giving mines something like a 10 second activation timer would stop a lot of that unconventional use. If a ship hits them before 10 seconds they just disappear as duds. That might be a little too complicated for this game though. It's a lot to keep track of.

On 2012-01-14 20:36, Enterprise wrote:
Surprised no one has added:

Mines - Does actual damage.





-Ent

On 2012-01-15 06:45, RogueAvenger wrote:

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On 2012-01-14 20:36, Enterprise wrote: Surprised no one has added: Mines - Does actual damage. -Ent

this would be a good start

On 2012-01-15 15:07, Fattierob wrote:
I always thought the following method would be useful:

Imagine a plaform that acts as the mine field 'dispenser'. In a x GU radius around the device, theirs a minefield that acts much like a dictor field. Any ships going into the minefield suffer damage per second and any other effects that would be cool.

The minefield has no signature, and would only be revealed with scanners (or by being extremely close to it). The actual device itself is still damagable in the middle, but it would have to be moderately tough.

I think this solves a good number of problems with mines and their usefulness

On 2011-10-05 16:14, NoBoDx wrote:
why not place objects with a fixed hp (eg 50) that damage enemys near them like planets

each time they deal damage, their hp decrease by 1
if you pd the object, each laser decrease the number by 1

and advanced idea:
bigger ships take multiple hits ( and reduce the hp more)
- scouts dont get hit, cause theyre quick and agile enough to evade the mines
- frigs take 1 hit
- dessies take 2-3
- cruiser 3-5
- dreads 10
- station all remaining

the best (but slow) way to clean a mine-field, some scouts could disarm them without harm
or a station hops in, and take all mines itself... but should get some serious damage (im talking about from 100%armor / 100% hull to 0% / 30)

maybe multiple hits do additional damage (numbers are placehoders)
1 mine does 50 points
2 mines does 50 + 50 + 20 -> 120
3 mines 3x50 + 30 -> 180 and so on