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Old October 13th, 2002, 04:42 PM
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I'd like a Degaussing option.

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One is degaussing, a technique applied to nearly all warships in WW2. In this, the hull of the ship is "wiped" with a high-tension cable that reverses the magnetic field in the hull. This doesn't make the ship "invisible" it flips the mine fuze the wrong way. The effect of a degaussing fades quite quickly so the process has to be repeated regularly. Later many ships had a degaussing cable fitted permanently to them.
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TerranC: interesting, but mine sweepers dont work this way - they just blow the mines off. In limited capacity, too.
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Old October 14th, 2002, 05:39 PM
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umm Grandpa, what is *so* wrong with my idea?
Uhmm... nothing. I love your explanation. :-) But Zoompet's is the right one.

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Default Re: How do mines work

WWII ships also deployed a mine sweeper componant that looked like a rake or a cattle catcher on a old time locamotive.
The mines would hit rake and blow a portion of it off. Eventually it would be pulled up and more steel beams would get welded on.
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TerranC: interesting, but mine sweepers dont work this way - they just blow the mines off. In limited capacity, too.
Huh? I'm not sure I understand. I didn't say that I'd like a Degaussing Minsweeping Component, I said that I'd like a degaussing option for ALL ships.

Just like it was done back in the old times.
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Default Re: How do mines work

How about lower level mines can be detected by high level scanners? then you need to get higher level mines (better cloak) and or better scanners to find the enemy ones?
just a totally out of context thought.
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Yeah, it is an interesting idea. If you had a degaussing option or a component for ALL ships, then you could make your way through the mine Field(s), without a mine sweeper.
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Yeah, it is an interesting idea. If you had a degaussing option or a component for ALL ships, then you could make your way through the mine Field(s), without a mine sweeper.
Well, no, if that was the case, it'd be unbalancing to the game...

And mines would have been useless then and now.

Put in a degaussing component:
And let it uses lots of supplies
And still allow for a random chance of mines hitting the ship.

Also, Create detonators:

Megnetic = Can be deflected by degauss but still could hit
Kinetic = Degaussing is ineffective and a mine sweeper will have to sweep the mines
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this'll have to wait till SEV but its a good idea, mail it to MM
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Default Re: How do mines work

Oh, and another thing; since Magnetic mines of WW2 never hit the ships, rather, it bLasted itself and the shrapnels hit the ship, I wonder if there can be mines that don't destruct, yet, when a ship comes into range, send out a pulse that destroys the ships. The mine would de-energize there, and a ship would come, reenergize it and arm it once more.
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