I'm playing as Advent in a current game. I think the homing mines are broken. I've noticed that after coming out of the hanger newly made they will home on enemy ships, but after sitting a while they just stop working and cluster around the hanger bays, no longer able to home on enemies should some come into the system. Anyone else have this occur?

Righty... after some testing.... me TEC vs. A bunch load of Advent Homing Mines... 

I jump into their system, see the mines which is great! Got a few scout frigates, more then enough to make em targetable... or so I thought... Since they remained Invulnerable even when within range of my scouts anti-mine ability.

So...I drove the scout frigates around for a little while... I tell you.. I gathered up a bunch of those homing mines ^^ .... drove them in circles around my fleet hopin to be able to blow em up... but no. 

Then, after about 5 min.. after the last Advent ship had left the system... and only then! All homing mines... seized their activity... they stopped homing. And suddenly... my scouts anti-mine ability worked as it should.

Now I'm pretty sure this is not how it's suppose to be right? 

I am having problems with mines as well. I play vasari and the problem was when cleaning a TEC mine field, my scout was in range to reveal the mines but they just kept phasing in and out so when i told my ships to fire at the mines, they phased out so my ships stopped the attack, this happened several times and was really annoying, clear that mine field (10 mines aprox) took me like 20 mins, definitively a mood killer, while having to keep two battles at the same time, one taking another system and the other cleaning one by one those "funny" mines.

Also, i really dont like to see the names of the planets and stars, etc, before i could select the option from the menu and it was fine (show names) but now i deselect it and the names dont go away, or they go away but only on some systems, its so random.

Hope this helps the final version of the expansion to be better, beside those annoying problems, nothing else to report, the new options and feeling of the game are great, keep up the good work guys!!

I find clearing mines to be almost impossible.  Last night I was playing as vasarri vs advent and the advent laid over 2,000 mines in a single gravity well.  There was no way for me to even attempt to take out all the mines with the current settings.  The vasarri seeker vessel would reveal them in the short range, but they would flicker between in phase and out of phase, which made them nearly impossible to hit.

My suggestions below:

-Mine clearing ship (if there's a mine laying ship, why not a mine clearing ship?)

-Have mines cost more than just 5 antimatter - 10 credits for example - not enough so nobody builds mines, but enough that building 2,000 in a few minutes with 3 or 4 ships has some affect other than the initial cost of the mine ship.

-Have a mine clearing ship that is excellent at taking out mines.  Then mines can't be your only defense, you'd have to have a few ships around to take out the mine clearers first.

-Ability to turn off mines completely (i.e. in the Game Options screen have a "Mines - Inactive / Active" option)

That's just my 2 cents on mines.  Great job on the game guys!

I just realized something, havent you noticed how dumb are the ships when choosing a route after they encounter mines?,

When a ship is facing a mine and you tell it to go back, it describes a path that indeed takes it back but by first passing by the mine, it makes a circle. Wouldnt it be better for the ship to just turn 180 degrees and leave? at least that way they wouldnt enter the mines which was the objective of the order "go back" given at the beginning.

Just an idea

Why not make it the same ship? It already specializes in mines already.

theres already some interest in making flak frigates anti-mines,  since they are terrible vs squads anyways people insist giving hem something usefull   just confused why they didnt add a Armortype Strike Craft that'd solve the flak problem.... cuase i really dont like the idea of a flak frigate being made anti-mine  i want an anti-mine frigate/cruiser for that "go for yet Another support cruiser!!!"

Totaly agree,  this has also been stated in another Topic "forgot wich one tough"  dont reember wich one tough

Best thing to do to not get destroyed by mines is to go above/below them with the Z axis, then they won't effect you at all if they are placed on the default plane.

ADVENT mines are th EASIEST to clear. The vasari mines and tec mines are hte more difficult ones. To clear avemnt mines just send a single scout ship inot the sector, and micro it NEAR  amine field, assuming the user hasn't turned the mines off of AUTO AQUIRE every mine in the system will chase after you, just drage them to the other side of the system, and let the scout die....all the mines will stack in a neat little pike, and your entried fleet is free to come in and ravash the system....done and done.

Mine clearing ? come on use your imagination!

i like to use 2 scouts and then let my strike craft target the mines, i still wish they had a ship that could do it all on its own...