Mines Not Exploding When Enemy Ships enter the sector

Is this with your AI mod, and are there more mines than can be successfully swept? I just noticed that your AI builds mines with no warheads and consequently they do no damage. If there's more than can be swept, then the excess enter into combat. Try flying the ships around the map and see if there is the occasional unexplained explosion.

To my knowledge, mines in combat are placed ridiculously high on the z-plane, hence aren't 'visible' in ordinary views of tactical combat. It may not be possible to get 'near' them to blow up.

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That's not how it works. The reason you can't see them is because of the Hidden in Combat ability in VehicleUnitTypes.txt. I can 100% guarantee that they definately do blow up in combat if you run over them. Try it for yourself in a combat sim - have a mine layer with some mines in cargo being pursued by a combat ship. If the combat ship follows directly behind the minelayer it will hit the mines and go boom.

I have not hit any A.I. mines in my game yet, but they have hit my mines , i'm playing unnamed mod latest version without FQM. Is it posssible for a cloaked ship to go through a mine field un hindered if the cloak is higer tech then the mine detection tech lvl?Just curious, but as far as the A.I. empires are concerned i have not seen any of their mines so far nor encountered any.

Unless something has changed, cloaked ships cannot get past mine fields, regardless of sensor or cloak levels. In fact, mines are a very good defense against cloaked ships if you don't have high level sensors everywhere for that reason.

I've never encountered combat due to minefields, either from triggering a field, or from having one of my fields triggered, but I don't use mines very often.

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Thanx reaper, for clearing that up for me. I didn't think they could but was un sure. I'm sure Unnamed will get on it and take care of it, between him and all the other excellent modders out there, surely someone will fix it. Well good hunting and kill well.

See!!! i knew it, these guys are fast,lol. Unnamed is on it already, he he. All is well in the SE5 universe...cool.8D

Woot, cool cant wait to install, but just so i dont mess it up, exactly where do i install to?.....SE5/Gametypes/unnammed mod?

Ok, will do, and thnx.

Ok, its been a little bit since my last post here, just wanted to play the update a bit to see how its working and it seems to be ok so far. I've encountered many minefields by the A.I., and have taken casualties from them, so it appears to work fine now. nice work.

I've noticed that when I sweep mines I still have unexploded mines in an area with my ships. I would think that if my sweep capacity is exceeded then the remainder should explode. (and this is in stock SE)