[TC] Squash Mine - Friend or Foe?

swgoddard · Post by **swgoddard** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 14:41

Whats the real use of this device?
Can you take out a laser tower, or a station maybe?
Or just the odd small ship.
What are it's best uses ?
Your thoughts and experiences greatly appreciated on this humble device.

RyuKazuha · Post by **RyuKazuha** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 15:53

You can use them to "bomb" a Capital, that follows your ship by dropping them right in its path. Or lay a trap for NPC on the major trade routes, but i found it not that useful to start with. Your better of selling them.

Reimu Hakurei · Post by **Reimu Hakurei** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 16:46

I'm generally on good terms with Pirates/Yaki so I wouldn't know too well, but they seem like they may be good for OOS defence of satellites if deployed at the same position as the device. IS however it will cause a fiery mess.

I have not actually done this, mind, it only just occured to me now.

Goodfeller · Post by **Goodfeller** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 17:23

Never found any use for them myself.

Xander Cade · Post by **Xander Cade** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 17:41

You know, if someone could write a Deploy Minefield script they could become very handy. Jump your fleet into an enemy Sector, send out your Kestrels to deploy mines, and return to their carrier, and watch the enemy ships plough through the minefield on their way to engage you.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Sat, 13. Feb 10, 21:55

Friend or Foe?

Once you arm it? Foe of everything that isn't a mine. =)

Mines are useful only against fighters (M6 are a stretch) and without any friendlies close.
They are utterly useless against an M2.

Well, they can moonlight as a crude ECM system if you don't fly a small ship yourself. =)

There was a Tracker Mine script for Reunion but it ended up massively overpowered. Because it worked.
And the game's fight scripts can not deal with mines. An attack run on a mine immediately freezes a fighter's fight script until the order is changed.
(so far, MARS goblins are the only "fighters" that can attack mines)

dalin80 · Post by **dalin80** » Sun, 14. Feb 10, 00:43

If memory serves xtm had a teladi m8 (special usage class back then) that laid mine fields.

the tern?

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9504/ternmf8.jpg

But even then the mines were lacking, they are just a bit too dumb really and were a bit of a pain too use properly.

Oh if only a lone scripter would take up the cause and give the mines a bit of brains.......

swgoddard · Post by **swgoddard** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 10:48

The minefield idea sound wicked as I am only selling the mines at present.

Flozem · Post by **Flozem** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 14:29

Gazz wrote:
Friend or Foe?
Once you arm it? Foe of everything that isn't a mine. =)

Mines are useful only against fighters (M6 are a stretch) and without any friendlies close.
They are utterly useless against an M2.

I believe a guy blew up a Q with squash mines in a DiD game. Ended up sacrificing the ship that carried them...

"Wanton use of nukes and the path to galactic conquest!" by NUKLEAR-SLUG

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 17:53

Sure you can but you need hundreds of them, targeted perfectly.
And yes... if the ship deploys that many it is very likely smack in the middle of the minefield and any attempt to fly out would mean a collision with at least one mine. And then...

Mk2 drones are far cheaper and reusable to boot.

Scott C. · Post by **Scott C.** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 18:03

IME only useful as pack-o-pirate fighters on my six deterrent, or the ware requirements for ridiculously profitable freighter missions given by pirates..... Otherwise there are better options.

Brings a question to mind.... What's the blast radius on those things anyway? In X3R I think I was killed <2k-ish out....

Post by **Geek** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 19:44

Mines blast radius is about 1500m, but damage decrease over distance.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 20:20

Geek wrote:Mines blast radius is about 1500m, but damage decrease over distance.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=170589

Killjaeden · Post by **Killjaeden** » Mon, 15. Feb 10, 23:53

or http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=253908
(more TC specific that is... no cool Script tho

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