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Ironclad...Mine size is way out of proportion, their as big as cap ships! shrink them please!

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Ironclad...Mine size is way out of proportion, their as big as cap ships! shrink them please!

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Who would miss these mines? You probably can see them from the next planet. Please fix before release. o_O

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Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Stupid humans.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting N3rull, reply 23
I dunno how anyone could think about something else than mines.

Extractors are Extractors, mines are mines. Wth.

Anyway, it would be better if mines were small and in "clouds", not few big balls. Instead of making one ovesized mine, I would suggest putting in a little cluster of five (or so) much smaller mines. Those small clusters would blow together with exactly the same effect, would be considered one object but would give it a more realistic feel to minefields, which would look like huge deadly clouds. Something like fighters - they are not one frigate-sized fighter per carrier flying around, but an undividable group. Yes, fighters have separate HP counts, but we don't really need that for mines.
Also, it would make more sense that a cap ship crew can not see the minefield if it consists of 100 tiny objects instead of 20 big red balls with warning signs on them.
End of N3rull's quote

Agreed the model for the mine should be a cloud of lots or little mines floating in space

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

nice,  i'd xpect advent to have them.. sneaky pests..   but hey  tec liek stuff big,  so i dont blame em for making em big.. & ugly o_O

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

err...

the enemy cant see your mines as far as i know

you need scout ships to make them visable

so does size matter?

 

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

It should matter. Every idiot should be able to see a big red ball hanging around in front of you.

Frigate 1 - Hey, what's that?
Frigate 2 - What?
F1 - That big red ball over there.
F2 - What ball?
F1 - That freakin' red ball right in front of you, bigger than both of our friggin' ships!
F2 - What?  You haxxor! You see a mine! We have no scout firgate around, you aren't supposed to see it!
F1 - But but... it's so big and...
F2 - shut it, cheater!
F1 - ok ok... hmphf...

There would be a nice way to make this irrelevant - give the mines a cloaking device. They will still be large, but faded away, invisible.

 

I also wonder what Vasari mines would be like.
How their hi-tech phasing mastery gets reflected in them.

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting N3rull, reply 6
It should matter. Every idiot should be able to see a big red ball hanging around in front of you.

Frigate 1 - Hey, what's that?
Frigate 2 - What?
F1 - That big red ball over there.
F2 - What ball?
F1 - That freakin' red ball right in front of you, bigger than both of our friggin' ships!
F2 - What?  You haxxor! You see a mine! We have no scout firgate around, you aren't supposed to see it!
F1 - But but... it's so big and...
F2 - shut it, cheater!
F1 - ok ok... hmphf...

There would be a nice way to make this irrelevant - give the mines a cloaking device. They will still be large, but faded away, invisible.

 

I also wonder what Vasari mines would be like.
How their hi-tech phasing mastery gets reflected in them.
End of N3rull's quote

At least I know I'm not crazy.......yes in game you need scout's to "see" the mines, but if their as large as that they can be "seen" with the human eye, you would'nt need to scan space.

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

i 'm french ...i can't connect to ironclad on line for play to soesa on line  ..about yesterday..why? i have the 1.05 versus..

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting wbino, reply 7



Quoting N3rull,
reply 6
It should matter. Every idiot should be able to see a big red ball hanging around in front of you.

Frigate 1 - Hey, what's that?
Frigate 2 - What?
F1 - That big red ball over there.
F2 - What ball?
F1 - That freakin' red ball right in front of you, bigger than both of our friggin' ships!
F2 - What?  You haxxor! You see a mine! We have no scout firgate around, you aren't supposed to see it!
F1 - But but... it's so big and...
F2 - shut it, cheater!
F1 - ok ok... hmphf...

There would be a nice way to make this irrelevant - give the mines a cloaking device. They will still be large, but faded away, invisible.

 

I also wonder what Vasari mines would be like.
How their hi-tech phasing mastery gets reflected in them.


At least I know I'm not crazy.......yes in game you need scout's to "see" the mines, but if their as large as that they can be "seen" with the human eye, you would'nt need to scan space.
End of wbino's quote

 

ok lets give all the ships dirty windows

apart from scout ships obv :P

 

Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

Ok i successfully install versus 1.10 with Impulse...all it's allright now.....it's a good patch...

Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting N3rull, reply 6
It should matter. Every idiot should be able to see a big red ball hanging around in front of you.

There would be a nice way to make this irrelevant - give the mines a cloaking device. They will still be large, but faded away, invisible.

 

I also wonder what Vasari mines would be like.
How their hi-tech phasing mastery gets reflected in them.
End of N3rull's quote

well, just a thought here, but what if say, a phased out particle was hot thru an anti-grav field, creating an explosion.... hey, just a thought!

anyway, the Vasari would probably be like rounded diamonds or spiked spheres.  as for phase tech, it could actually be phased out (Jikarta Navigator's phasic cloaking ability turned on by default w/ no antimatter cost, then phases in to activate the mine when a magnetic/gravitic sensor detects a ship nearby).

 

oh, and I think large clouds as a single unit would be a great idea.  and magnetic attractors so that the mines moved toward something if it got close enough.