Been reading the forums and alot of people welocme the mines, even with the amount of changes done to them but alot of people still has issues with them, wouldnt it just be easier to add an option to diasble them in game options like pirates, surely it cant be that hard? i know that would leave only starbases as the only real major addition in entrenchment and they've had their troubles too, but it is the beta, things can still be changed, hopefully they will be adjusted before the end of the beta, but atm mines have my no vote 
this topic probably has already been dicussed at length in other posts but rather than post this a million times just thought id put it here, an any bed gramma in that i apologise iv just woken up!