On the other side, laying mines where you want them needs to be easier for vas and advent. My sugestion would be that you have the mine layer lay a minfield in a location and thos mines are maintained in that area as long as the mine layer is assined to it. If you move the minlayer away and the mines will start to break down and destroy themselve after a certain amount of time. For the tec just have a limmit to how many can be maintaind by the planet at one time, and have the fade after a certain amount of time of that planet is bombed into the stone age or changes hands. you may have to change the way the advent mine drones work to do this, but from what i can see they dont realy work as it is. this would go a long way to fixing the problem above and take the omnipitant control everything at once advantage AI's have over theier human opponants. they can lay mines everywhere and manage 2 fleets. Im sory but i cant.

just scroll down, at the bottom of the page there are a section with links to the subforums, you'll find that mines are a matter most ppl are concerned about

Mines are super lame. On every skirmish map you play the AI fills the maps with em, like several hundred everywhere you go. This fucks up even strong machines. SO in any case whether you like mines or not they cant stay because they make you lagg like hell. At the very least they need to make a choise of whether you want to play with mines or without when you play, so people without CIA-supercomputers can get a lagg free game. I cant have a fun skirmish game in sins anymore because i know that sooner or later im going to run into the "maps filled with hunnnndrrreeeds of mines" that realy fucks up my gaming pleasure(and the pc dislikes them immensly aswell)

So please fix these stupid mines, they are wrecking sins for me!

i really don't think we'll see mines like this in the final version of entrenchment.