Mine Components

Nope, not a stupid question. I did the reserach you suggested and that solved the problem, thanks, but that generated more quesions.

1. Shouldn't the create unit screen have a warning that states Warhead 1 as a required tech for mines before allowing mines to be built?

2. I will find out how many mines the first mine layer component can lay per strategic turn here shortly, but shouldn't that information show up when we right click on the component?

3. The mines I built and deployed w/o warheads couldn't be self-destructed, but then maybe that was a glitch since they were non-functioning units to being with. However, I can't seem to self-destruct legitimate mines with warheads either. The 'deconstruct' button opens a menu with only the 'scrap' option highlighted, and clicking on that gives a warning screen that a ship yard is not present. Fine, but I didn't think mines could be scrapped, and, more importantly, the self-destruct button was never highlighted (I assume the icon with an old fashioned bomb is the self-destruct command button).

This is a general problem with not being able to use older techs when its advantagious. It seems the scheme in SEV is to spread out tech levels, so what was 3 levels in SEIV is now 10 to 100 levels, with tinsel rather than substantial improvements along the way. I don't disagree with the scheme itself (it keeps the player more engaged) as long as its coordinated properly (by having real usuable incremental improvements), and part of that would allow us to view and use older techs if we chose.

The SEV PDF manual says mines can self-destruct, but that button cannot be highlighted by selecting a mine unit group, so that is a definite bug.

I checked the component.txt file. All of the unit bays (fighter, drone, mine, and sat) have the same description; ie, 'a unit can be launched every 6 seconds in combat' without stipulating how many can be launched in strategic play per turn outside of combat. I guess I'll figure that out by trial and error.

Also, requiring actual warheads (required tech level and a missing required component warning)prior to being able to construct mines can easily be remedied by editing the mine component in components.txt but this should really be a global fix in a patch, not something each of us has to do manually.

Does anyone now if the 100 unit of a given type per sector limit has been carried over from SEIV to SEV?

Yes, and it is still 100 units per sector.

Vehicleunittypes.txt also specifies that mines can self-destruct, just like in SE4, but so far I've been unable to get the command to highlight. Apparntly mines do not require maintainence, however I would still prefer the self-destruct option to have less things to keep track of, especially if I'm closing in on the maximum units in space limits.

Firing on one's own mines is an option also. Haven't attempted that yet.