Genocide - Respawning cap ships? also SQUASH mines question

[JustHere4Coffee]

1: I know that certain stations will always respawn - namely shipyards, equipment docks, and trading stations - but what about capital ships and TLs? I know Argon One has special protection from destruction anyway, but what about others of its class?

I don't want to go cleaning out sectors and laying down loops only to have the battleships respawn and take out my factories!

2: SQUASH mines... no friend-foe, I know - so how do you lay them without getting blown up? do they have a time-delay, or do you have to arm them after placing them? and do they work OOS?

[Warpedshark]

1) yes allong with the Shipyards, equipment docks and trading stations

2) IIRC you have to activate them through a command console. But it has been a while since i played with these so im not sure.

[dr. lomax]

SQUASH Mine, yeah you activate them throught he console, either just one or a whole load you have released in the sector.

Dunno about the ships, i`ll have to try it out.

[JustHere4Coffee]

1) yes allong with the Shipyards, equipment docks and trading stations

2) IIRC you have to activate them through a command console. But it has been a while since i played with these so im not sure.

Hm... now, do I believe you, or not?

[Shifty]

well save game and try heh

[Warpedshark]

1) yes allong with the Shipyards, equipment docks and trading stations

2) IIRC you have to activate them through a command console. But it has been a while since i played with these so im not sure.

Hm... now, do I believe you, or not?

MoM members only mis-inform if the question raised has been asked many times before or if it can be viewed in the stickies. As this falls under neither of those catorgories I have not mis-informed.

[proteus2]

1) not sure, only just tested taking out the Xenon cap ships in between ship yard spawns, I believe that stops Xenon caps respawning, if it does the same theory should work with every race (ie destroy the shipyard FIRST, then mop up the cruisers before shipyard re-spawns.)Also, you must be out of sector before any station respawns AFAIK

2) When ejected they are blue/inactive. You must remotely swith them on from their control panel. Bit of a pain really, only ever used one and that was a test as I moved across an unknown sector, so all I can add is, yes, mines split clusters.