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Originally posted by Hydraa:
You might be able to use a variant of the white elephant tatic mentioned earlier. Gift a enemy a ship with no engines and then attack it with your minelayer
Thats diabolical. the only problem is you cant do it to an ally (cant engage combat with them) so you would have to do it to a enemy or someone with a NI treaty. then the problem occurs when a warship not set to 'dont get hurt' wants to move through the sector where you are laying mines, and greases the white elephant.
I like the idea of editing the component file alot more, as it is (a) reliable and (b) invokes alot less complaints about cheating.