How to Use Mines

[Adseria (OP)]

How exactly do I deploy mines (As in blowing stuff up, not digging stuff up)?

I'm trying to lay mines on a jump point, but, whatever I try, it doesn't seem to want to work; the mines either don't launch and just vanish, or launch but then immediately vanish.

The mines I'm using are fairly standard; an active-sensor buoy with two active-sensor missiles on the second stage. No boost stage or anything.

How should I set the fire control? Where should I launch them from? How should I launch them?

[Zap0]

Not; they're broken in the current version, as you found out.

[Nori]

I believe Steve has them fixed in the next version, but in my experience, they've never worked in the C# version.

[Kylemmie]

I use fighter hulls with box launchers as 'mines' for this version. Not exactly hands off auto kill - but it works for cheap long lasting JP defense. Not too hard to get 100+ years deployment time. Civ Carrier to deploy, so no military logistics needed.

[Adseria (OP)]

Ah. Wish I'd known that before I built a dedicated minelayer, but anyway... 

Thanks for letting me know.

[froggiest1982]

I believe Steve has them fixed in the next version, but in my experience, they've never worked in the C# version.

This was my assumption on the changelog discussion based on some of the fixes reports from Steve and I can see a few users are now actually taking that for granted. However, such a fix was referring to the 2nd stage detection and Steve never confirmed or acknowledged that a problem with mines actually exists. From what we know he could even not want mines and I don't want to be wrong here but I actually remember him saying something on this back on Aurora VB6.

The problem with mines is that it opens to a very cheesy exploit. One could design a buoy to be launched at a waypoint (out of the MFC range) then launch missiles to use such buoy to acquire targets again out of MFC range making MFC completely useless and long-range (very long) artillery easy to use. Obviously, the players can limit themselves in using such tactic but it would still be a "design" flaw.

I am just saying this because detection alone would not sort entirely the mines issue as there were also other factors involved such as the above.

I will be the first to test mines again as soon as 1.13 will be out though.