HOLY SHIT!!! Man..finish that ASAP!!

MINEFIELDS FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll give you +10 karma whenever you release it!

Ah man..I can already hear the sweet sound of agony as my ennemies cap ships stumble upon an active minefield *Screams in the distance*! A sweet smell of victory!

so will these mines mimic what's coming in Entrenchment?

Mine fields....     hmmmm.... sounds interesting. When can you release it sir?

-Teal

You are silly Justin!!  Haha, but that is okie, so... when do i get the minefields?  

-Teal

Helioforge...I don't know if you're still working on mines! But I get mine online and working great!! Check my thread and till me if you used same way??? Together we can refine them to perfection!

My mines are proximity drift mines, and the code will wait until I can get on my Dad's computer (the only one with internet and super-user access, needed for Impulse), but he lives in another state, and it was down on Thanksgiving (Vista), D'oh!

   The only snag I have is when you have 500+ mines, and the processor gets bogged down from the activation ability... otherwise they are perfect enough...

My mine code was completed in August!, a week before Entrenchment was even announced!

Back in April, there was a thread where all the modders discussed their wishes for mines, and I voted for the proximity Drift mines, now it took a while to learn enough about SINS to code them, but on this one, the modders were ahead of the developers (although the developers have access to the code itself, so they will ultimately prevail with the best mines)...

In my early coding attempts, there were a couple of times I thought I had the code right, but didn't test them enough, and later realised they only worked under certain circumstances (they only targetted one ship, and if that ship wasn't in the area, the whole field failed to work)...  ...those were the version-6 mines that were really just glorified homing missiles...  they worked, but only in special cases...

  My version-2 mines were more like depth-charges, and I abandoned them because it was easy to slip through if the field wasn't actively being watched...

  I'm bringing this up because I too felt all too happy having found something that blew up enemy ships that I called mines.  I was even in negotiations with a couple modders with the version 6 homing missiles (I was saved by any potential deals falling through, because I didn't know they were bad)...

Anyway, although the mine-coding is the core of any mine endeavors, there are a great many details that I didn't consider until after a couple months of testing my version-10 "proper" mines.  Things like spatial configuration, self-deployment and replenishment of the fields, ways to trick the enemy fleets into ignoring the mines altogether.

There are a lot of parts to a comprehensive mine system, and it takes more than 48 hours to finish them all...

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I've also decided to include the volcanic planet fragments into my mine mod, as well as the space whales, for the fun of it...

thanks...

It shouldn't be long now for the release, I called my dad and had him do the Impulse thing for me, since his computer is the only one I would trust for the install... ...I just have to figure out how to get my 1.1 where it belongs (on my non-connected gaming computer)

In whatever incarnation they arrive, Sins will surely have mines

My package will surely be heavily modified to fit each person's vision of mines, and they are over-engineered for this very purpose, since it is easier to remove bits of code than to write new bits... (most people won't need 5 levels of damage, but it's there just in case)...

I believe a person has a right to decide for themselves that a "Mine" actually is...

If you pick the right definition, you can justify your work as complete...

My definition of mines is most like those used by the Army, others may choose to develop those used by the navy, such as depth charges, now it is true I would call their work Depth-Charges, but it may very well be legitimate, when you allow the person creating the work to decide which definition they wish to use...

If anyone wants to bring out a dictionary, I left it wide open for discussion...

Helioforge, you are right, ShadowMastiff can legitimately claim he has mines, even though they are depth charges, simply by using a different definition!

Quick question..who the hell is Carbon16????

I've only started codding like 3 weeks ago and playing sins 3.5 months ago! Carbon16 rings absolutely NO BELLS!

I'm partly to blame too, on several occasions I got fleetalex to profess a need to aquire my code, thinking it was funny at the time, and knowing full well he didn't need to ask if he wanted it...

As for your 1.05 reference, I'm fixing that as we speak, and all the infrastructure that goes with my core code has already been done, that's why I don't need to join forces, because I'm done coding it...

Oh, I did happen to see the show Leverage last night!  Watching the bad guy figure it all out a little too late was nice to see unfold... ...The best part was saying "we have alternate methods of compensation"