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Agent of Karma, I know exactly what I'm trying to say. I'll restate it so that hopefully you can understand: I believe that mine sweeper ships, designed to remove mines help to balance the game. You called that tedium and preventing the use of mines. I disagree with you because using a purpose-built craft to remove mines is preferable to using a scout/frigate/capital ship that must be sacrificed or damaged to clear mines. That's it in a nutshell.

[quote]This boils down to the purpose I proscribed - reducing micromanagement and tedium. Without the minesweeper, you can still do all the things you said (ensure that the system looks like YOUR system, blah blah) - the problem is, it will require a lot of micro and tedium for you. With the minesweeper, you automate the micro and tedium away.[/quote] I have to disagree with you. This does not boil down to what you described. There's a difference between micromanagement and tedium in

You're right, I had a typo. It's 1.9GB of video memory (not 1.9MB). I will wait to see if the next build is optimized and performs better. Thanks.

[quote]The reason for a minesweeper is to reduce micromanagement and tedium, not reduce the ability to place mines (even to the point of significantly impairing mobility).[/quote] Sure, I agree that the point of placing mines is to reduce mobility. But like I stated before, every move should have a counter-move. And currently, there's no way to clear a mine field without just ramming ships through it. The reason for a minesweeper is NOT just to reduce micromanagement an

AS has been noted by several other posters, I strongly recommend that a mine-sweeper frigate or cruiser be incorporated into the game. When the AI (or perhaps other human opponents for those who play online) engage in mine-spamming it can significantly impair mobility in a star system if done extensively enough. While the idea of being able to place mines is great, every move should have a counter-move. I'm currently reduced to using a "spare" capital ship as an "ice breaker" when I feel I ne

After playing for two to three hours and gaining a half-dozen to ten planets (planetoids) or so, and having a few fleets on the map, I begin having problems with reloading saved games. Often, after clicking the "Load" button, the game will freeze up. Going into Windows Vista's Task Manager shows Sins of a Solar Empire as "Not Responding". I'm running my system with 4GB ram, 1.9MB video memory, Radeon HD 3200 graphics card and 2.1 GHz dual core AMD Turion. The game should not freeze up li