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Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
The only problem with building shield-busting mines is that shields are only on during combat. So shield-depleting mines would be useless (outside of combat).
Are you sure about that? Somebody else posted (on another topic, fairly recently) that a great "cheat" for busting through minefields is to make a ship with enough shields to handle the bLast from a single mine. He claimed that the shields regenerated after each mine, so such a ship could take out an entire minefield.