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I didn't expect to get an answer to that, however... thats a perfect answer!

Fair enough, guess i'll just have to wait and see how they eventually implement it in the finished game.

Salutations, Decker. Delicious set of quandries. All I can give you is my subjective responses based on my own personal experience and opinion, so your mileage may very on the following: I suppose the reason why I am here is one day many years ago, my parents gave each other a special hug...

Hi, I just noticed we now have a classification between Sticky and "Normal" threads. While this is a vast improvement on the old system where you couldn't really tell which were stickied and were easy to overlook, I find the term "Normal" to be a gross slur on the excellent caliber of...

I would hope there would be some kind of Mine laying autopilot with this ship to make that doable, however if thats not a thing doing it manual might end up living with the easiest, fastest way and living with a hole at the top and bottom :) EDIT - hang about these mines are self-propelled...

9x9 updated to indent the middle top and bottom mines to close up that hole in the sides of the cube that are missing the middle mine that 26 would cover but 24 don't:

Okay so with 24 you can have 4 grids of 9 mines per face in a cube shape: EDIT - and no more thsan 5000m from the nearest mines on the top and bottom planes. You could easily move the middle mines on the top and the bottom layers inwards to be able to close those gaps, too...

I think I'm focusing on total coverage and how quickly a self guided keg of boom can move... If a ship can be disabled for a few seconds and a mine is close enough, a couple of seconds is all it needs... but that's not bad thinking. TEST Weapons Research Lab is not going to be dry of talent come...

I was also trying to work out how to cover all sides if we assume there is a Tactical Asteroid base / other thing we'd need to defend: Not sure how large the item in the middle would be able to be if we assume no more than 10,000m furthest distance from one mine to another.

had to get a piece of paper to try to work out how you could mine up an area: 8km coverage doesn't sound too shabby. if you imagine somewhere like the close space over Levski or GrimHex where you wouldn't need to cover the planet side, it might just be tactically viable, expecially if you...

I've seen some other theorycrafting that it could be used for booby-trapping your wake as you run from enemies too. Another interesting usage.

D'oh, I buggered up my sums there didn't I? 🙂 How many square KM could you make a 2D grid at, say, 10,000m (Edited originally put 10,000km so buggered that up again) between each mine? you'd never be less than 5,000m from a mine in that case and if they move at 1000m/s that's 5 seconds to impact.

Oooh that's actually very interesting come to think about it... With two orbital points in constant movement if you get your maths on, you should be able to find one predictable point to place your trap. This image should be able to explain what i'm thinking: P1 green and blue on the inner ring...

Well, I'm not going to say you don't have a point, because I don't know how they plan to implement it. It could be the 24 mines this thing carries strung out over a grid of 2400 square KM sets up a distortion grid between the mines, that disable anything that flies into the net then all fly...

There was interdiction in Freelancer too, but they used Trade Lanes that you had to stick to to get anywhere fast. Technically speaking Interdiction should be able to work if you put your trap on a popular traffic lane, for instance between Loreville and ArcCorp. Going from one rest stop to...

If you ever played Freelancer there was a minefield around the penetentury. Also the mines in the image apper to have some kind of maneuvering thrust rig in the middle. Self guided mines, like Magnetic mines in the sea. Theroycraft, ofcourse, but an autonimous self guided bomb would not be...

I think that's likely the case, TESTs eyes are everywhere there is no reason this is not accurate.

Although I am all up for the Hype, why does that lanyard say Citizen Con 2948? It's 2949? Apart from CitCon 2949 has not happened yet... EDIT - What am I saying TESTs eyes are EVERYWHERE! For the GLORY of TEST!!!

Thank you, Glorious Leader! Doesn't look very huggable to me, still hoping for an Aurora Plushie!

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