mine sweeping question

Dogboy · #1 July 18th, 2008, 03:07 AM

There is a "sweep mines" order indicated in the .pdf manual for SEV. Does one have to order ships to sweep mines, or are sweepers on automatically? If a sweeper is part of a fleet, how do you tell it to sweep. If you take it out of the fleet, how do you get it to arrive, sweep mines, and be protected by escorting ships?

Thanks!

Fyron · #2 July 18th, 2008, 05:23 AM

Mines are encountered and swept automatically when ships move into a sector. You should leave the sweepers in their fleets, to keep all of the ships together.

BlueTemplar · #3 July 18th, 2008, 08:43 AM

Why is there a "sweep mines" command then?

douglas · #4 July 18th, 2008, 10:02 AM

If a minesweeping ship is somehow already in a mined sector, for example if it moved there before a treaty was broken or was built there, the sweep mines command could be used to have it sweep that sector without having to move.

Dogboy · #5 July 18th, 2008, 10:26 AM

Thank you guys. This is very reassuring.

Baron Munchausen · #6 July 18th, 2008, 01:44 PM

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douglas said:
If a minesweeping ship is somehow already in a mined sector, for example if it moved there before a treaty was broken or was built there, the sweep mines command could be used to have it sweep that sector without having to move.

Nope. That's what we thought but it doesn't work that way. You do have to move out of the sector and then back in to sweep.