Try the Scout/Flak counter to mines. It worked for me as TEC against Advent mines in my system - but be careful when an enemy force jumps into the system and your mine-sweepers dash towards them to attack them - through the mines ...

It would probably be usefull to be able to upgrade the scouts mine detection range. Can you do that in entrenchment? (not playing beta cause I like the working version. Will wait for release)

So really there is no "efficient" way to do this? From what I have read in other threads this is something they seem to be looking at. I was just hoping for a non-micromanage way to do this. To have to baby-sit each mine, phew, is just too much for me. I will keep playing to test things out but I don't see me being able to finish many games with this mine "situation". 

Yeah as I stated in my post and others have posted in theirs and well I would love to see something like this. I actually think it would make the mines even cooler to have a new ship you could build that would go and  clear mine fields within the planet well you are in. I should note however that I think it should only be possible in the well of a planet you are in control of. I think the ship should be weak so that if someone sent it in to a hostile well to start disarming it would easily be destroyed.

I think it would be nice so you could set it to auto clear (like you can set a scout to auto explore) the field around your planet since that well should be safe anyway since you now own it.

Just my take on it.

Those are good points. I didn't think about having an existing ship being able to upgrade so that it could take out mines. But are you talking about during battle when trying to clear things out so your fleet doesn't get hit so hard or are you talking about once you take the planet? I ask because I am talking about once you take possession of the planet. Having an enemy mine field left over that you really can't do anything about taking it out (without doing something tedious) is what I would like to see.

Also wanted to reiterate that I am talking about having the ship either through a new one or an upgrade, as you suggest, be able to do this automatically once the ship has been built/upgraded. Going through it mine by mine is what I think should be avoided. I think it adds a layer of tedium that hampers gameplay.

If scouts had an ability to mine sweep that could be enabled to automatic just like any other ability you could just bring a group of scouts in and have them perform this function by the ai, just like enabling them to scout.

mine sweeping for the scouts a defo i think that would sort out a large chunk of the problem with mines, though stopping the AI from spamming them would be nice as well as its crashing my system  grrrrr

oh AND programing ships not to just plow through them despite knowing where they are i think is the common sense thing to do, just forced a advent fleet outa my system and before i could gather up to follow them half the fleet went after the retreating fleet straight through a bloody mine field and blew the lot of them up!

Then we're back to not taking map size into account.  That's not a step forward.  The way starbases and mines are handled now scales with map size.  We just need to prevent the spamming of them in a system, both for gameplay and performance reasons.

Better than 10,000 mines in a single gravity well.

I've seen both. Have a game where its slow in any system, even one with no mines. The buttons to accelerate the game do nothing for example, because it's already going at less then 1x speed.

Now in that same game if you go into a system that has a thousand mines, it turns into a slideshow. All the ships won't even show up on screen, its so bad.

Put a hard limit on mines that's for sure.  Don't know the number, but I'm sure research and balance tests can set that.

Also to limit people spamming them still, make it so that when a planet is taken over, all the mines in the well transfer to the new owner.  Nothing worse than actually GIVING your opponent 100+ mines.

I just had a thought based on what I've observed in real life. I don't know how well it'll work with entrenchment, since I haven't bought it yet, but might still work.

Seeing as to how mines in the present restrict civilian movement and cause PR problems, we can have it so after X amount of mines, allegience, trade income (trade ships gotta safely navigate through the mines), or both, suffer in the system (maybe adjacent ones as well) with too many mines. That would allow players to have many mines, but discourage them from spamming them the way I read about them now.

Just a thought.