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[Bug?] Advent Mines

October 24, 2009 8:10:20 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Scouts are suppose to kill and detect these things, but in practice the scout dies trying to kill the mines.  Is that the intended behavior?  Should detection be greater so the scout AI will stop before being in range of the mines homming ability and destroy it?

 

I understand you can run the scout and have serveral mines chase it and let it detonate all of them, but I prefer the scout being able to kill the mine without dying.

 

 

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Reply #1 October 24, 2009 4:34:30 PM
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Scouts are weak little ships.  They were meant to die.

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Reply #2 October 24, 2009 5:06:16 PM
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scouts are ships too

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Reply #3 October 25, 2009 3:50:08 PM
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from what i understood from everything i read by the devs back during entrenchment beta (which i participated in, as did you), scouts were supposed to be able to detect the mines and kill them without dying.  my impression is that this is unintended behavior.

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Reply #4 October 25, 2009 4:10:19 PM
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If you set their combat range to local area, they can make the mines destructable without dying, but their weapons don't have the range to destroy the mines alone. I usually bring in a carrier or two of fighters to take them out.

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Reply #5 October 25, 2009 5:54:10 PM
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why bring carriers when flak frigs do a much better job at a faster rate

with these puppies around my scout, I never lose the scout and only take minimual damage to flak frigs

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Reply #6 October 25, 2009 6:08:22 PM
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I tried that, but in extremely dense mine fields, even flaks can be vulnerable, especially sense they like to focus fire on the same mine while the rest get close enough to detonate and cause damage. Fighters have the advantage of being completely immune to mine damage, plus my fleets tend to have more carriers than flaks anyways. Of course maybe it's just the Advent and Vasari flak, the TEC one looks like it would do a better job.

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Reply #7 October 25, 2009 6:23:22 PM
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true I mostly play TEC, though I have tried it with advent a couple of times but that was against the Vasari so no good test there

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Reply #8 October 26, 2009 3:03:46 AM
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Scouts are weak little ships. They were meant to die.

Don't say that about my children!

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Reply #9 October 27, 2009 8:43:14 AM
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scouts are ships too

 

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Reply #10 November 9, 2009 6:09:57 PM
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so bug or not?

 

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Reply #11 November 9, 2009 9:09:12 PM
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not a bug just a slight misadjustment of scout mine detection radius

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