| Re: How few mines can you sweep ? |
Fri, 12 February 2010 15:17   |
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 craebild |
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| slimdrag00n wrote on Fri, 12 February 2010 20:25 |
I was just joining the conversation. I stated that I assumed and said that I have no idea so I know it was not the explanation.
I dont know how it works. But maybe if ship is only one ly into the minefield it can only kill the one mine at the rim of the field. Sure would like to know my self how this was done. I would test this but It will have to wait until monday. Good luck
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The explanation would probably be that the ship stopped at 16.0312 ly from the centre of the minefield, and the minefield contained 257 mines at the time that the ship started sweeping. 257 mines gives a radius of 16.0312 ly, while 256 mines gives a radius of 16 ly, so after sweeping 1 mine the ship was no longer inside the minefield.
In other words, by an odd coincidence the ship stopped at the exact edge of the minefield - Assuming that was the ship that only swept one mine, there were other ships sweeping that minefield.
As you implied that you did not know what happened, and had made an incorrect assumption, I corrected your incorrect assumption - And checking the distance from the centre of the minefield to that ship shows me that it most likely was that ship that only swept one mine.
The way it works is that a minefield has a radius of the square root of the number of mines, and the number of mines a given weapon can sweep can be found in the help file (or the printed manual and technical reference if you have those). However, a ship obviously cannot sweep a minefield if it isn't inside the minefield, which is why most late game sweeping means sweeping fewer mines than the ship(s) are actually capable of sweeping.
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Ræbild / Christian Raebild
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