Do mines work as a defensive weapon?

Katkon · Oct 20, 2015

I believe their damage type was changed to the ther mic with 1.3 but then read about bugs associated with teleporting mines etc. To anyone with recent experience with mine launchers: are they now a viable defensive weapon on a big trading ship?

Lowe1978 · Oct 20, 2015

No. Still absolutely useless.

lysan · Oct 20, 2015

Well, you can chose; throw rocks at the enemy or use mines, they have the same effect.

Alice Margatroid · Oct 20, 2015

Lysander lysan said:
Well, you can chose; throw rocks at the enemy or use mines, they have the same effect.

at least rocks can take the shield and a good chunk of hp off npc's, mines. well they make great target practice.

insanephoton · Oct 20, 2015

Lysander lysan said:
Well, you can chose; throw rocks at the enemy or use mines, they have the same effect.

That's unfair, if you throw rocks you might actually cause some damage

Windscreen Smudge · Oct 20, 2015

Lysander lysan said:
Well, you can chose; throw rocks at the enemy or use mines, they have the same effect.

Might want to rethink this statement considering that asteroids are now the NPC's arch-nemesis.

Supposedly mines are getting a re-balance in 1.5, we'll have to wait and see OP. Til then don't bother. Such a shame, I remember when NPC's used to terrorize me in my Eagle with them, tons of fun.

Nitek [pl] · Oct 20, 2015

useless. Sadly - this could be a good pirate defence for traders... but no. worthless totally

Marshall... · Oct 20, 2015

I wish they did. They are about as useful as ejecting the contents of your ships waste disposal unit.

pantbash · Oct 20, 2015

They should do LOADs of damage, not show on the radar and be invisible to PD's.
Then, they may just have some use if you are trying to high-tail it out to SC.

Or, on impact just give the victim ship a moderate amount of damage (as per a missile) but stick them in a spin, as per failed interdiction.

Snarfbuckle · Oct 20, 2015

photolifepl said:
useless. Sadly - this could be a good pirate defence for traders... but no. worthless totally

Yup, on a defensive Asp you could chuck 6 mines per salvo while running.

Now just imagine if they did enough damage to make people fear them AND being only visible within 500 meters or so on the radar...

Windscreen Smudge · Oct 20, 2015

pantbash said:
They should do LOADs of damage, not show on the radar and be invisible to PD's.
Then, they may just have some use if you are trying to high-tail it out to SC.

Or, on impact just give the victim ship a moderate amount of damage (as per a missile) but stick them in a spin, as per failed interdiction.

Mines used to 2-shot an Eagle or Viper. A few people made some posts on the forum commenting how awesome this was (no sarcasm) Mines got nerfed into uselessness.

Way to read the crowd FD

Katkon · Oct 20, 2015

Alrighty then. Will stay away from mines. Thanks all.

Tripwire1969 · Oct 20, 2015

This is disappointing news. I was stripping down my ASP for long range exploring but did not want to be completely defenseless. Maybe missiles would be a better option unless you have to face your enemy to fire them?