squash mine feild deployment

[Grid]

hey folks was wonder if there a script out there for deploying a mine filed in a grid e.g. length by height by depth (4*4*4), and also by how far apart each mine is so that they don't kill themselves and with the ability to active and deactivate them somewhat similar to the ring of fire script for the lazertowers

[Gazz]

Don't remember one offhand but I can tell you that the detonation radius is 1620m.

Also, it will never be effective against anything but fighters... and then largely on M5/M4.
To even dent a capital ship you need something in the vicinity of 50-100 densely packed mines, which are all going to blow up harmlessly if the PPC of the capital ship engage and blow up a single one of them at a range of several km.

[jlehtone]

Fleet Support Ship Software (FSUP) of X3R had Drop Freight command, which when told to deploy a SQUASH did place 8 Mines around given point.

Creating Mines into neat grid is easy, but as Gazz pointed out probably futile.

[Triaxx2]

They're more effective OOS I seem to recall. I find them most useful for hostile gate blockades. Or scattered in small numbers well out side the normal map areas for use as cluster busters.

At least until OFF is completed anyway.

[Gazz]

If targeted / deployed carefully, they can be insanely effective against clusters of fighters due to their extreme detonation range.

That is why I never updated my SQUASH Catapult script to TC. It was too damn effective and fighters basically ceased to be a game feature - unless you conceded their continued existance.