Hi,
Having recently returned to the game after a bit of a break, I had the urge to play around with a Mine-layer type build. Just for fun you understand, not thinking it'd be massively effective, though there is an appeal to getting good with such things, as I have with other builds some might consider less than effective.
However, while in a HazRes last night I observed some NPC Mining ships ( Type 6's and Type 9's) using mines and killing themselves with them. Quite literally, they'd deploy a mine while fleeing (from another ship, not me, honest) which would instantly explode damaging the launching ship. It actually looked like these ships were already in their death throws due to all the explosions going off.
Obviously this is broken behaviour as I thought there was supposed to be a delay between a mine launching and becoming armed. I actually recall some discussion on this a while ago, when this timer was introduced as it effected certain player tactics when using them - largely rendering them useless. I thought this change had been reigned back a little so the delay was still there, but shorter. However, from my observations last night, NPC-launched mines are exploding instantly after launch.
Note: these ships were not under heavy fire or anything, I mean, nothing else was detonating the mines. No, the ships were simply moving off, launching mines which instantly exploded.
Of course, my plans for playing with Mines on my own ships are on hold currently because of this, and I wanted to check with the community here to see if others are observing the same thing as me.
Note 2: I was just playing in Solo last night, re-learning the game as I'm quite out of practise. So, no instancing network glitching issues complicating things.
Cheers,
Scoob.
Having recently returned to the game after a bit of a break, I had the urge to play around with a Mine-layer type build. Just for fun you understand, not thinking it'd be massively effective, though there is an appeal to getting good with such things, as I have with other builds some might consider less than effective.
However, while in a HazRes last night I observed some NPC Mining ships ( Type 6's and Type 9's) using mines and killing themselves with them. Quite literally, they'd deploy a mine while fleeing (from another ship, not me, honest) which would instantly explode damaging the launching ship. It actually looked like these ships were already in their death throws due to all the explosions going off.
Obviously this is broken behaviour as I thought there was supposed to be a delay between a mine launching and becoming armed. I actually recall some discussion on this a while ago, when this timer was introduced as it effected certain player tactics when using them - largely rendering them useless. I thought this change had been reigned back a little so the delay was still there, but shorter. However, from my observations last night, NPC-launched mines are exploding instantly after launch.
Note: these ships were not under heavy fire or anything, I mean, nothing else was detonating the mines. No, the ships were simply moving off, launching mines which instantly exploded.
Of course, my plans for playing with Mines on my own ships are on hold currently because of this, and I wanted to check with the community here to see if others are observing the same thing as me.
Note 2: I was just playing in Solo last night, re-learning the game as I'm quite out of practise. So, no instancing network glitching issues complicating things.
Cheers,
Scoob.
